Scrap Girl

Hi scrappers!  I finally took some pictures of some of my favorite pages from my Grandma’s 90th Birthday album I made for her a few years back.  She recently passed away last month and my extended family gave it back to me.  She really loved the album and took it out to show quite a few people when she was alive.  It was also brought to the services for everyone to look at.  If you get the chance to scrapbook an album like this, I would do it, because it will turn into a treasure for all to share.  I took photos of the title page and the first couple of pages following that.  I typed up the guest list and made a pocket on one of the pages to put it in, in case she wanted to remember everyone that was there.  I figured that not all guests may have been included in the pictures although quite a few were which was nice.  It was hard to pick another favorite page, but the picture of my Grandma with her best friend, Violet, was really endearing to me.   

Unfortunately, I had a gift album returned to me.  My grandmother passed away recently and I got the album back that I made for her three years ago for her 90th birthday party.  I plan on going through it this week and picking out my favorite pages to show you.  I’m glad to get it back and I will always remember how much she enjoyed looking through it and sharing it with others.  I also plan on doing some sort of Memorial Page, but am not sure when I’m going to get to that.  I’ve never done one before, but am realizing how nice it would be to do one for those friends and family who go on to their final resting place before me.  Check back later this week for some ideas for making a scrapbook for a memorable event like a milestone birthday.  Happy Scrapping!

I finally finished this mini chipboard album and just in time.  The wedding is today!  I started out with a Bo-Bunny “Love” Chipboard Album I got for cheap on Ebay.  I had been thinking of making this album for quite a while so I made sure to do some investigative reporting so to speak.  I asked my friend about what colors she was having for the wedding, flowers, etc. so I could incorporate that into my album.  Sometimes doing this really makes it an ultra special gift because people know you were really listening to them and remembered the little details.  She is having an aqua blue color for the bridesmaid dresses and I got to see exactly what color when I happened to go to the craft store with her in search of ribbon to decorate her garter.  After getting this detail, I went with black and aqua colored papers for the book along with matching ribbons.  I punched out the bride and groom’s names and some hearts from their invite with my circle punch so I could use those too.  I ended up binding the book together with ribbon which worked okay–you just have to make sure to leave a little room for turning pages.  I really like how this turned out.  I added little dimensions where the pictures should go so she can cut them to size and will throw in some tape adhesive so she can complete the album with the pictures she chooses.  I have a feeling this may also get her hooked on scrapbooking…we’ll see.  Now I just need to enclose my sentiments and some basic directions and find a gift bag quick!  The wedding is today!

I finally finished the mini chipboard word album I’m giving as a gift for a wedding celebration tomorrow.  At least I’m done a day ahead I guess.  I’m really happy with how it turned out and took some pictures.  I still need to upload them to my computer so come back tomorrow to see some pictures of the album.  I have showed it to a couple of friends and they think it looks great and will make an excellent keepsake gift for my friend.

Hello scrapbookers!  I’m currently working on a project for a wedding gift.  It is one of those chipboard word mini-albums.  I haven’t done one before and am about half way through.  I’m liking my creative process so far although my scrapbooking area and the guest room it is in are under complete chaos.  After this project, that room is getting a total thorough cleaning.  I’ve got paper and supplies everywhere.  Hopefully no guest come to stay anytime soon because you can’t even see the bed.  When I finish the album, I’ll take a few photos of it so you can see my finished gift and hopefully get some fresh ideas to keep you motivated to scrapbook this summer.  It is really hard when the weather gets nice, but an hour here and there can save your sanity and get some creative juices flowing.

I finished the vacation scrapbook gift I made for my in-laws for Christmas.  My favorite story from that trip that is in their album is about our day trip to Galveston, Texas.  We (his mom and dad and myself) all went to Houston to see my husband in the National Truck Driving Championships.  One day he had to compete behind the scenes and we couldn’t see him all day so the three of us took a day trip to Galveston.  Once our rented PT Cruiser got us there we stopped on one end of Galveston Island just to explore that beach and I wanted to see what kind of boats and ships were coming in.  The tide had gone back out and there were all kinds of shells that had washed up.  I noticed some had tiny footprints in the sand around them and after picking one up saw that there were tiny crab creatures in these shells.  Okay, we’re talking hundreds, probably, of these shells.  I told my in-laws I’d  like to bring some shells back for my girls, but we had to make sure they were inhabited with no crabs.  I found some flatter shells and my mother-in-law was also gathering.  As we were walking back to the car, I felt a tiny crab leg tickle my hand, and there was one in this shell.  So I left all of my shells of that type on the beach, to not chance it.  We put the shells in a bag she had and went about our sightseeing.

At the end of the day we were in the car headed out of Galveston back to Houston in rush hour traffic and my mother-in-law says, “We have to stop!”  I’m driving the car in traffic and have to return the car in 45 minutes.  We asked why we had to stop and then she told us there were two crabs in the bag.  I told her “Sorry, we can’t stop.”  First of all I couldn’t exit the road we were on in that traffic, and we were on a timeline.  She wanted to take them back to the beach.   About that time, my father-in-law sees we are about to go over a bridge and says, “Give them to me, we can throw them over the bridge and back to the water.”  She decided we couldn’t do that.  I told her we didn’t have time to go back to the beach and I would put them in the bathtub when we got back to the hotel until I figured out what to do with them.   In the meantime, I’m thinking okay, we’ll get back to Houston about 5:00 pm, I have to get back across town to the hotel, and I have to get ready to go to a dinner at 6:00pm.  So we get back to the hotel and I tell my husband his mother brought back two crabs from the beach, throw them in the bathtub after I get out of the shower.  Get this–So–it turns out there are six crabs in six shells in my bathtub at the Hilton when I leave for dinner.  So the crabs in my bathtub are the talk of dinner and everybody got a good laugh.  Unfortunately, my crab friends didn’t make it after a couple days without salt water.

I’m making a vacation scrapbook for my in-laws for Christmas.  It has been done for a while but I ran out of glue dots (I love the continuous line for ribbon adhering).  I finally got over to the craft store this week to get some so I can finish up the project.  This is the first time I’ve tried a wire-bound chipboard album.  I like that all of the elements are out there, so to speak, so you can touch everything and feel the textures I used, but maybe I’m just used to the top-loading page albums.  The top-loading albums are more stream-lined I think and then the pages seem to be more protected.  I really had to make sure all of my supplies were securely attached to the chipboard.  They will like it just the same I’m sure.  Hardly any of the pictures they took turned out, so I was able to use the ones that did plus any of mine.  Here is what it looks like.