Easter 2015

     Ack!  I haven’t posted and I have been meaning to!  I’ve not sat idly by, praying my 2015 scrapbook pages get done.  I have been actively working on them, every time I get a chance!  This page I finished a couple weeks ago.  I’ve finished others but I haven’t taken photos of them yet.  I’m looking for a better way than standing on a chair and twisting not to get a shadow.  

     You know what I’m talking about.

     I love the colors in this page – just very springy and Easter-y.  And the subjects, well, one cannot help but love them.

Happy late Easter everyone!

Prison Break!

Last night I worked on my “Prison Break” scrapbook.  I haven’t done anything with it for a while and it has been languishing on my kitchen table for a couple of months.  Not good – especially since the table is café style and no one else can use it while there are stacks of scrapbook paper and newspapers and glue sticks all over it.  Right now I’m up to 47 pages, front and back.  All of it newspaper articles.  I’m not sure if I can download newscasts about it.  If I can, I may burn them to a disk and include them too.  My hope is that Ron Howard or Tom Hanks will want to do a movie and will come to me and ask to use the data I’ve put together.  They will woo me with gifts and dinners and kind words and lots of $$$, and I will be gracious enough to hand it over.  Yes, my dreams are grand, but there are good people in them! 

I’m not sure how I’m going to bind all of this either.  Will I put it in a regular scrapbook binder, or a 3-ring, or maybe a comb? 

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Wow!  Wrote that about six months ago!  Anyone else behind in their projects?  Just me????  Well, last night I did take out my Prison Break scrapbook and the few newspaper articles I had left and got to work. 

I didn’t make this fancy for a reason.  It was a prison break, not a party.  I added a few stickers – tongue in cheek, if you will, about travel and camping.  To be fair, it’s very hard to find prison stickers.  If there are any out there please send them to me! 

Honestly, even though it was a county away I was afraid.  We made sure the doors were locked, that the animals were inside, that there was a weapon close by in case of a confrontation.  Thank God we never had to meet one of these guys.

I think I will have to outline my “Breaking Out” letters on the front to make them stand out more, but other than that I’m happy with the finished project.  Now I can back to scrapping everyday life in 2015!

Have you ever made an entire scrapbook out of an event that happened in the public eye?  Why did you do it?  How did you scrap it?  Did you share it with anyone?

April Stack-A-Holic Challenge

It’s April and it’s also time for the Scrap-A-Holic Challenge from DCWV.  I realize it looks as though I’m only working on these challenges now, but they are my kick-start.  I’m also working on something very special which I will show to you soon – just not today.

As you may know from previous posts, I am a year behind on my scrapbooking.  For the April challenge, I have scrapbooked my mother’s birthday from a year ago, yesterday.  I’m hoping her birthday this year will get scrapped sooner! 

I used the Scripts and Music Notes paper stack from DCWV as the background.  I love this paper!  It’s so dreamy and soft and feminine.  Perfect for my mother’s birthday. 

I also used my Creative Memories Border Punch system to create a notebook effect on the side of the page and my Suburbia Cricut cartridge to make the tea cup and lettering.  When I think of mom, I think of tea.  That’s her go-to drink.  She used to take it with one sweet-n-low but now she’s switched to a teaspoon of sugar, and milk.  I propped the teacup on foam squares to give the page dimension, although you can’t see it here.  I also gave it a little bling with some glitter glue.  I love that stuff!

Did you see my flowers?  I used the leftovers from cutting my border and made them into stems and leaves!  So cute and a great way to use scraps! (Scraps? Scrapbooking?  It's a win!)

I have an extra pad of the DCWV Scripts and Music Notes paper that I will be giving away in the future.  Please follow my blog so you’ll know when that will be happening.