A Bit of Scrapbooking Fun
Aloha, all!
I spent most of last weekend putting together a scrapbook of photos I took when I visited my son and grandson, son’s significant other and her son. We had two wonderful days out and about in Portland, Oregon. On a Saturday we visited the Oregon Zoo, which is a delightful place to spend a day. Then on Sunday we visited the Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden. I couldn’t imagine trying to please an 8 year old and a 6 year old – both boys! – at a flower garden. Wrong!! This garden has lakes and ponds, and the lake and ponds have ducks and geese. The first order of the day was to buy a very large bag of goose and duck food (of course). Believe me, no one was bored!
I thought I’d share a couple of the scrapbook pages with you. The scrapbook uses Stampin’ Up! products exclusively throughout. For awhile I thought I was going to have to use non-Stampin’ Up! alphabet stickers. But then I found some Avery Label sticker paper, and used one of the Sizzlit Alphabets that Stampin’ Up! offers in its catalog to make my own stickers. When I priced things out, I definitely saved a lot of $$$ (not counting the Sizzix die because I’ve used that a lot already for other things).
This is the left page of a two-page spread.
I had the most fun using the Circle Scissors Plus on most of the pages in this scrapbook. I could adjust it to just fit the image I wanted to cut, then adjust it slightly larger to make the mat behind the photo. Most of the papers here are all papers that are going to be retiring at the end of this month. The Baja Breeze was just the perfect color for this set of photos, and went well with the Kraft card stock, punched with the Photo Corners Punch, as an accent.
The printed papers are from the retiring set of Designer Papers, Parisian Breeze. The stamp is from the set, Under the Stars, and another stamp from that set is on the right page (which I’ll share tomorrow)
The sticker letters are from the Sizzlit Naturally Serif Alphabet die. It’s a long strip die with all the letters of the alphabet–upper and lower case–on one strip. It was very, very easy to cut the sticker paper with it, and all the letters separated from their backing with just a bit of a push from the tip of a straight pin. It’s just the perfect alphabet set for this size scrapbook page (8-1/2" x 11").
Are YOU ready to do some scrapbooking? Beginning this fall, I’ll be offering Scrapbooking Classes in my Craft Room. Let me know if you’d be interested.
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