Local Woman Scraps Seven Pages Last Night! (That would be me!)

Oh, how I love the beach! I ove scrapbooking the pictures, too. It almost feels like I'm there again! Here are some of my favorites of the pages I have recently completed. Above: One of our evenings in Ocean City, MD, will always find us at the marsh boardwalk. We always take a walk out to the end of the walkway. This time, we saw bunches and bunches of jellyfish in the water. Good thing we weren't swimming!
For this page, I had 3 photos. I used one of the storyboxes to mimic the boardwalk and it's cooresponding journaing block. I cut my photo of the jellyfish in order to place water on both sides of the boardwalk. I added some little dragonflies to complete the page.

Above: I love this page! One consistant thing in these 4 photos is the surf. So, using 2 shades of blue, one white and 2 layers of vellum, I attempted to recreate that. I used the Creative Memories tearing tool for the neat edge you see and simply layered them on the side of the page.
I tore a mat for my family photo and almost hated to cover up my carefully placed surf! I didn't want to add anything else to the page because I found it very calming.

Above: I have to say that we ate Ledo's Pizza twice on this trip. It was the first time we have tried it and we adored it! I had to make a page worthy of the pizza! I started with a page of blotchy yellow paper. I had already used a rectangle of it at another time, but I carefully cut the paper from behind my photos and pieced it all together. I then took a clean sponge and colored on a quarter size with a red CM marker. I dabbed it on the yellow paper to look like sauce. It didn't work all that well, but I was satisfied. For the peperoni, I took my bubble punch to a piece of cranberry red paper. Then I punched out circles of the holey paper. I punched out the same size circles for the darker red paper that I put behind it. I only made 6 pieces of pepperoni, but cut several in half to make them go farther! Half of them would have been behind the pics anyway! I freehand cut the title and then stuck a clear "Love" sticker on top of it. See details below.

Below: I always do a page entitled, "Out and About" of our vacation to the beach. This time, I changed the title to Inland. I used paper and stickers form the CM Surfer girl pack, and put the orange letter stickers of my title UNDER the clear sticker. I'll journal in the space under the title at a later time. I always leave room for journaling and do it a different day.

This is a 2 page spread. I used the same paper, just in a smaller touch on this facing page. To decorate, I used the stickers that matched the paper again. The Surfer Girl pack comes with stickers, title stickers and lots of paper of 2 different sizes. (12x12 and big enough to mat 4x6 photos) Since everything goes together, I find it's a big timesaver. I like that, and I like when everything matches perfectly. The hibiscus in the corner was cut out of one of the papers from the surfer girl pack. Actually, see the pink paper I matted the picture of my 2 adorable children with? I cut it from this pink piece of paper. It was a design on the back of the pink side and you can't tell it's missing since the hole it made is underneath the picture!

Now that school is over, I can use naptimes as scrapbooking times! I love it! Once I get the urge to scrap, I'm inspired. Once I'm inspired, I don't want to stop! Last night, I fell asleep early on the couch and woke up 2 hours later ready to go! So, I scrapped the night away, polishing off 7 pages that I loved! I finally finished our beach vacation from last year. Very enjoyable!

Beach Layouts 2

Blogger is weird. I can't figure out why it decides that some pictures need to be turned that don't, but I don't have time to spend on it. My son's nap time is a precious commodity! I will not waste it! Here are some of the beach pages I've been working on. For page #1, I used stickers to make a border. I also matted a clear title sticker on paper and gave it some seahorse stickers.

Page #2: I liked how the blue bubble paper went with the kiddie pool and my daughter's bathing suit. I didn't like covering up all those bubbles, so I used vellum to make some semi clear bubbles and a journalling block. I took the bubble theme one step further by cutting out several bubbles from the paper and decorating my daughter's close up with it. I actually did this because I used a piece of paper to mat her close up that I had previously punched holes in for a page I did last year! I needed to cover up the holes in the green paper, so I did that with bubbles. I loved how the green matched the piping on her bathing suit. *sigh* It makes me happy when everything goes together!

Page #3: Because I had 3 vertical photos, I had to make them look OK with the page. I double matted the photo of my kids and made a photo border for the page with 2 strips of orange paper. I cut the sunshine from a sheet of paper and made it a "setting sun". I found the title sticker and excitedly put it right on top of the sun. It matched perfectly! Sweet!

I made this title by using the oval cutter to make the purple background, dotting it's border with a pen, putting a clear title sticker on it, and adding a flower sticker and a paper flower. I punched out little hearts with a punch and bordered them with the pen. I then layered them and cut out a bit of yellow paper for the center.

I was excited about page #4! Mimicking the pool, I made a pool of my own to journal on. The beach ball is a sticker. I almost always mat the photos I want people to notice. Especially with that cute pool on the page, I felt I had to make my fave pics stand out!

I don't know about you, but I'm ready to go to the beach!

Scrap Happy!

Beach Layouts

I know it might be a little early for beach pictures, but I am this far behind in my daughter's album, and this is what I'm working on now. So be prepared for more layouts over the next few weeks. Catch a Wave! This page has room for journaling which I'll add later. I used the paisley punch to imitate water droplets. I don't use the paisley punch very often, as it's hard to know what to do with it sometimes!

To the Beach! This is the opening page, which is always a big deal for me. I like to capture my kid's expression when they see the beach for the first time.

Fot this page, I chose to sepia the picture of my daughter looking down. I have no idea why I did this, I just knew it would look better. I also had the photo of her walking to the waves enlarged. I took a whole bunch of pictures and then chose my favorites. Of course I have another page from the same day, but it is only 2 photos. I wanted to have a lot of room to write the story of our getting to the beach.

My embellishments are actually modified Christmas stickers! I really wanted flip flops, but I wanted them to match my page. I also wanted them to have some texture, or look like they had some texture. These flip flops were easy enough to make. I cut the sticker below out because the bird didn't fit on the page where I wanted it when it was in a circle of blue. Using the left over blue, I made the flip flops. I folded the blue together and cut out the flip flop shape. Then I cut little slivers of yellow, stuck them on and folded the ends around the back. Ta Da! They are a little asian looking, but I loved them! Asian works for us anyway!

Here is a close up of the bird. I made the title by doing the outline in blue and filling in the inside with copper. The paper is from a jewel summer paper pack.

The second best thing to being at the beach, is scrapping about the beach!

Scrap happy!

Beach Days

When going on a vacation, I often have a mental list of shots that I want to get. Pictures of my daughter's footprints in the sand, Her hands with the surf in the background,

My son playing on the beach for the very first time,

the ocean in the sunset ( and I am really into shooting pictures of people's backs right now),

and my little girl's face the second she sees the ocean when we first get to the beach.

Especially on vacation, I like to get candid shots as well as posed. I like candids because they show life. I also like not having to make my kids stop what they are doing and look at the camera. I don't want to pause that moment unnaturally, I want to capture it happening! When I show my photos, there are probably about 150 that you'll see. But I have taken so many more. I usually take at least 2 of the same shot, sometimes more if I can. Some cameras have settings that will automatically take more than one shot. I'm going to play with mine and have it set to do that.

TIP! At the beach, we made sure to have a shade umbrella everyday. My camera was in a gallon ziplock bag, in a pocket of the backpack (we leave it in the same pocket so that it's quick to get to) under the shade umbrella. It's hard to keep sand and moisture out of your camera, so be sure to have it out as little as possible. If sand gets on the zoom lense, carefully wipe it off. I took several tissues to the beach for cleaning my glasses, camera and my little boy's runny nose (not all with the same tissue)! I usually went through 4 tissues a day.

I took some shots in the surf, making sure the camera band was around my wrist and that I kept the camera high enough to stay out of the water.

I know that I had mentioned taking my scrapbooking supplies on vacation to get some scrapping done at night, but I ended up not doing that. It was a lot to travel with, and by the end of the day, I could barely stay awake long enough to jot down the day's events. Also, we took my husband's truck and I don't trust that my supplies would stay completely dry in the back, if it rained.

We had a nice, relaxing vacation. I was able to get most of the shots I wanted, and really made an effort this trip to read less and play with my kiddos more. The more years we go to Ocean City, the more treasures we find! With going to the beach every day but one, (the day we go outlet shopping) eating at all of our favorite restaurants, playing at the world's greatest park, walking the boardwalk and the marsh boardwalk, playing at the coolest putt putt course we know of, and driving through Assateague to see the horses, we are tired at the end of the day!

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My Wish

When I heard the words to Rascal Flatts' MY WISH, I knew that I wanted to include it in an album for my daughter. While at the beach, my husband clicked pictures of us here and there, and I ended up doing a 2 page spread with not much more than a few matted pictures of her and I, and the words to this beautiful song. That was all it needed. It brings people to tears. (me especially!)