Paris mini album

I'm so excited that I finally finished my first ever mini album!  I had finished all of the pages before Christmas, but I hadn't started the journaling.  I bought the album at a scrapbook store in Paris and I decided that I was going to create the album of our trip there.  I knew that I would need more pages than the album had, so I decided that I would buy some postcards and type the journaling on the postcards and include those in the album.  I love the large postcards that I found and I think that they look great in the album.  I love that I was forced to do a lot of journaling (five post cards worth!) as I normally don't do a lot of journaling.  I kept the color scheme fairly neutral, using mostly Crate Paper's Portrait collection.

I used my brand new Silhouette Cameo for the Eiffel Tower, the map of France, and the 2011, and a few other items.  

Me in front of the scrapbook store!  I love that I found this store thanks to the Studio Calico message boards.  No matter what question you ask, someone can usually help you out.

I used a combination of black and white and color photos.  

I included a lot of ticket stubs, receipts and pamphlets.  The pamphlet for Notre-Dame was a horrible green color, so I scanned it and printed it on a neutral color.

The page on the left is probably my favorite page of the album.  I just made a grid of nine 2"X2" photos of some pieces of art from the Louvre.  So simple, yet I love the way it looks.

I used bits and pieces of lots of things from my scrapbook stash and from my Studio Calico kits.  I loved having no rules for this album.  Some of the products that I used was old, but I didn't care as long as I was happy with the way it looked. 

I could have created a whole album of photos of my nephew and husband eating sorbet!

I used the font "1942 Report" for my journaling.  I can credit Studio Calico for that, too.  I use that font all the time now after reading about it on a message board.

I had to use a washi band-aid on this postcard.  I got a little excited about trimming the postcards for the album and made a boo-boo.  You would never know that it was a mistake though - it looks so cute!

I love this business card and silverware wrapper from a restaurant that we ate at.  I didn't have to add much else to the page to make it adorable!

Thank for taking a peek at my first mini album.  It was a lot of fun and I'm sure that I'll be creating more soon.

Have a great week everyone!

Sneak peek! (Just to prove that I am working on something!)

I've spent all of my scrapping time over the past few weeks working on a mini album of our vacation to Paris last summer.  I finally finished all of the pages last night - the front cover plus ten pages.  Now I have to start on the journaling.  I bought five oversized postcards in Paris and I'm printing my journaling on the back of those, so I have a long way to go!  I don't want to share the album until I get the journaling done, but I thought I'd share a sneak of the work that I have done so far.  

This is a peek of the front cover:

I actually bought the album in a scrapbooking store in Paris - Le Temple Du Scrap.  I just had to make a trip there as part of my vacation!

This page is from the Louvre:

I tried to include as many ticket stubs and other little items as I could in the album.  

I'll be sharing the entire album soon - TFL!!

Have a good week everyone!

My Toes - In the South of France

When I was on vacation last week in France, I took pictures of my toes.  I was in Paris in the Luxembourg Gardens, waiting for my husband to return from using the restroom and took the pictures.  I didn't notice the cigarette butts surrounding my feet until I looked at the pictures later.  So I took pictures of my toes again.  This time on a beach in Southern France, without the butts. (Unless you count the nude woman next to us - tee hee!)

This is my fourth layout from the April 2011 Studio Calico kit, Singin' in the Rain.  I think that is the second most used kit ever for me!  My first kit, Whodunnit, was the most used so far - I just finished a layout with it last week!  I also used washi tape on this layout - something I usually have a hard time using.  I think it looks adorable on this layout though.

Have a great day everyone!

Travel Layouts

I feel like I rarely do travel layouts.  I think that I get overwhelmed with the amount of photos.  I came home with over 1,000 photos from our trip to Italy last summer!  Where do you even start?  

Well, this weekend I managed to finish not one, but two travel layouts. (Yay!)  The layout above is from our trip to Florence, Italy in July 2010.  I love this photo that my husband took of me from behind while I was walking down a narrow street.  I love the lighting and the layout of the photo.  I just wish that little old lady wasn't in the photo!

We went to Paris, France a few years ago and I love this photo that we got of the Eiffel Tower.  I used the January 2011 Studio Calico kit for the most part, but the die cut paper was from an older kit.  It was originally a different color, but Mr. Huey took care of that!

I'm sad to say that tax season begins tomorrow.  For those of you that don't know what that means for a tax accountant - it means 55 or more hours a week and working on Saturdays.  For months!  (Until April 15th.)  I probably won't be getting as much scrappy time in, but I sure will try.

Have a great Sunday everyone!