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Today was Ben's last day of third grade. I could get all mooshy-wooshy here, but instead I'll just type in the text of a note he wrote me today.
"Dear Mom,
Thank you for being my mom.
I love you.
Love, Ben."
Not earth-shattering prose, but pretty darned sweet coming from a 9-year-old boy. And sweet he is:
I got a request for more photos of my Christmas tag album and the Harry Potter album, so here you go!
I used Christmas wrapping paper, ripped envelopes, and embellishments from the cards themselves to decorate each page.
I made the tags with a tag punch and labeled with the subject of the photo. I added a bit of ribbon for added interest. (Who doesn't need a little ribbon??). Pictures go both horizontally and vertically.
The 3D accent was right off a card...very Jolee!
Can't go wrong with a 2x2 punch... a la Ali E.
On this one, I used a background stamp for texture. It's one of those cubes... you know, with stamps on four sides... Can't remember who makes it but I got it at Mike's.
Now on to Hogwarts!
I'll post full directions sometime, but basically, cut the bottom flap off a bunch of paper bags, staple 'em together with the pinked edges facing outward, and embellish, embellish, embellish!
I downloaded a Harry Potter font off the Internet (will talk more about that in an upcoming podcast about fonts). Journaling was minimal... each "pocket" contains more photos, journaling, and memorabilia.
I really distressed this book with ink, sandpaper/steel wool on the photos, etc.
Totally quick and easy. And fun, of course. Can't forget the fun. ;)
...or maybe a whole hive!
-Working on a new podcast (that will be up later today)
-Creating some new LOs for Big Picture Scrapbooking and Simple Scrapbooks
-Dealing with the end of the school year (Ben is out next week!)
-Keeping score at the baseball field...
...And more!
But in the meantime, here are some mini-album photos (that I promised you last week, yeah, yeah, thanks for reminding me what a SLACKER I am!).
This is the basket of mini-albums that sits on our living room table. I have more than this... of course!... but this is the bulk of it.
"A-Haunting We Will Go..." Bet you can't guess what this one is! ;) Taught a class last October for this one. V. fun!
A simple cardstock album I created on the spur of the moment (how I do most things... hahaha) to house the photos from Ben's 2-year-old Sears photo shoot. John had them in a cheapo cardstock frame in his office, but this is much cuter! Each interior spread has a photo on one side and a memory on the other... funny things like the way he'd go to the park and play baseball with John and bang his tiny bat on the plate and say, "Put it here, Daddy! Put it right here!" Good times, as Ali E. would say.
This album is an interesting size. It holds photos from a trip to Maui with my friend, Heather, for her 40th.
Oh goodness, this is one of my favorites! It's a paperbag album that focuses on the launch of Harry Potter #6 at the local Borders. My kids dressed up as Dobby and Winky. TOO funny! Great photos, and the album was perfect for it.
A mini-tag album I created in a class a few years back. Not my typical style, but it was fun to learn the distressing techniques.
I used time cards I bought for $1 at Office Depot for a minialbum for all the holiday cards we got a few years back.
An autograph album for the Scrap Etc. event in Birmingham in 2006... I met Cathy Z., Kelli Crowe, Carrie Colbert, Elsie, and more! I made the album to showcase my goofiness and star-struckedness. ;)
One of my favorites -- a lil' matchbook album for Cal's first bday. Much better than five or six pages in an annual album!
I have tons more but I will save you the pain.
What are some of your favorite minis? Do tell!
In my world, three pounds = three new pair of shoes.
I have set a series of goals for my weightloss, and the first was, for each pound lost the first week, a new pair of shoes. Yeehaw!
Here I am at the pool while Kinsey had swimming lessons.
I love California.
Yes, this does somehow relate to scrapbooking... I am going to create a mini-album of the photos from my weightloss. They took a "before" photo of me at JC, and no, I'm not going to appear on Oprah in a bikini... but I did order a new bikini for our trip to Hawaii in August. Wishful thinking and all that.
Wait 'til you see what I get when I break 150!