Kiss and Tell Scrapbooking

Counterfeit Kit Club August Layout #5: Sunshine + October Afternoon Sketch

This layout is the result of a mash up of an October Afternoon Sketch and my August Counterfeit Kit Challenge.

The tags at the top are from KI Memories and the strawberries and colors totally coordinated with the Original Kit: Summer Lovin' A Digital Kit by Chelle's Creations.

The Story of This Page:  "We climbed the huge mountain to the together slide about 20 times - can you say Stair Stepper!  We, Of Course, got the bucket of Ice Cream (as a reward). "  "Summer 2012:  Oh Give us a cloudy day and Allison and I will have a completely awesome day at the Disney Water Parks.  No lines at the Zip Line!  Awesome!  Love :) Mommy.  (I've got) SUNSHINE on a cloudy day with my girl - my girl Allison at 8."

And Yes!  That is an October Afternoon Journaling Card right in the middle of the page!

So cute right?

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Get It Scrapped Post: Flying Machines as a Scrapbooking Motif

Ali Edwards' One Little Word of the year is UP and it seems like all sorts of flying machines have been popping up in scrapbooking this years - chances are you've seen the kites, hot air balloons, rockets and airplanes in the scrapbook shoppe. 

 

I picked up some of the Basic Grey "What's Up" line at my local scrapbook shoppe Whim-So-Doodle and was inspired to use some of the stickers.  

I thought about using some very old photos of my Grandpa from WII since he worked on a blimp in Brazil during the war (and didn't see any action but did bring home lots of amazing photos).  I didn't have those photos handy so I thought about the UP sticker and how my son keeps growing and he's almost as tall as I am; I also thought about how my son and husband love all things rockets and space; and about how last 4th of July we went to Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.  So all those ideas mashed up on this page and the "what's up" stickers seemed to work - even the one at the bottom "room to grow" and I included photos of my son with height "you must be this tall" signs at the water park and at the space center.

Journaling: "These photos are mostly from 4th of July Weekend 2011 - a year later you are almost (5 feet tall and growing) as tall as me and I'm sure that you'll be taller than me by the summer of 2013."   "I've got high hopes for your bright future - maybe you'll be the astronaut I dreamed of being when I was a kid.  You & your dad love all things rockets and space."

Supplies:  cardstock; Basic Grey "what's up"embellishments, stickers and papers, sharpie marker.

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Want to see more scrapbooking pages with flying machines from scrapbookers including Amy Kingsford, Ashley Horton, Christy Strickler, Kelly Purkey, Adryane Driscoll, Tara McKernin, Jennifer Matott, Audrey Tan, Lynnette Penacho, and Debbie Hodge? Go Check Out Get It Scrapped's Post on Machines in Flight on Your Scrapbook Pages.

 

Get It Scrapped Post: Road Trips!

Its August and I'm itching to go on a road trip - a real road trip - like for a month, but, alas, it is just not going to happen right now for me.  So, in the meantime, I'll settle on short road trips over to Disney, I know, rough life right?  But really, I would so love to take a road trip up the east coast and end up in Nova Scotia or out west and then drive up the California coast - ahhh, maybe someday. 

That page with my daughter at the wheel was from a couple of years ago - seems that we're creatures of habit and we do this girl's weekend to Disney every year about this time.

I made a double page layout for the Get It Scrapped Road Trip Post.

I used the single page sketch to create a double page layout about our recent trip to Orlando; I changed the placement of the sketch for the left side page.

We live about an hour and a half from the Magic Kingdom so sometimes its a day trip and sometimes its an overnight trip; and many times, we go on a whim.  A rainy day for us means a great day to visit the Disney Water Parks; my daughter and I made an impromptu trip during T.S. Debby.

Journaling: "Can we got to Typhoon Lagoon? Allison wants to know.  "Maybe" I say.  "I Have to check my work calendar and see how much the hotel will be."  Daddy adds "There's a tropical storm coming!"  "Perfect!" Allison declares.  She knows this will mean a much shorter line at the zip line which we remember (after we are all the way in at Typhoon Lagoon) is at Blizzard Beach."  "It was indeed rainy, but that meant we got a bonus day in Orlando and saw the Brave Movie at Downtown Disney + Room Service at Floridays + A shopping trip to Tommy Hilfiger where Allison bought that adorable dress and I got some new bathing suits at Nautica.  We had a fabulous girls weekend.  June 2012."

Supplies: Red Cardstock Patterned Paper (Scenic Route); doileys, maps die cut with Quickutz Metro letter dies; sharpie for journaling; border stickers (Sassafrass).

 

Want to see more Road Trip Scrapbook Pages from scrapbookers including Adryane Driscoll, Debbie Hodge, Brenda Becknell, Tara McKernin, Barb Brookbank, Sue Althouse, ?  Get over to Get It Scrapped's Post on Scrapbooking Road Trips. 

12 Awesome Ideas for Scrapbooking Places and Travel

Ah Sweet Summer, time of vacations and road trips and travel.  I'm just itching to get out of town!

Want ideas for Scrapbooking Places?

1. Get It Scrapped's Post "Ideas for Scrapbooking Travel to Cities" - Oh, if I had some spending money, I'd book a trip right now so I could make some of these fun pages.  Really - I am not kidding!

2. Ella Publising's How to Create 4 Pages with 8 Products - ok so this isn't necessarily travel related but you could use this concept to create a kit to take with you and scrapbook while traveling.

3. Paperclipping Roundtable's Podcast: "Take Your Scrapbooking To the Beach" - this is really about scrapbooking while out and about and traveling.

4. Get It Scapped's Post on "Ideas for Beach Pages" - this article includes 2 of my own layouts!

5. Big Picture Classes's Challenge to Incorporate Memorabilia into Scrapbooking - I know I come back from vacations with tons of brochures & stuff!

6. Martha Stewart's Ideas for Scrapbooking Vacations, there's about 36 beautiful photos of album ides here.

7. Ali Edwards's Class: Scrapbook On The Road - I didn't take his particular class, but I do scrapbook like this on the road whenever I travel.

8. My video about Scrapbooking on Vacation that I made during our March 2012 trip to fabulous Durango, Colorado:

 

9. Shimelle's "Here There and Everywhere" Class - I did take this class and loved it, the link here is sold out, but I think if you poked around on her site for "Here There and Everywhere", you could probably find lots of information - I highly recommend her site.

10. My Pinterest Board "Oh The Places We'll Go" that includes amazing travel photos and scrapbook pages and scrapbooking ideas.

11. Scrapbook Update's 2012 CHA Travel Trend Report - ok so this is not from Summer CHA, it is from Winter CHA 2012 - and that's still trendy enough for me.

12. Making Die Cut Map Letters for Travel and Vacation Scrapbooking.

Happy Trails Scrapbookers!

Spring Break 2012

Spring Break 2012:  We are on a Stay-Cation this year.  Fortunately, Busch Gardens is about 40 minutes away and I just bought the year long fun passes so we're planning several trips to this mostly zoo theme park.  There are lots of rollercoasters there too but my kids just like watching the roller coasters, not actually riding them.  They like slow rides like the train, the sky ride, and the jeep ride through the safari.  All fine by me.  We really enjoyed the white tiger exhibit, the gorillas and the animal hospital / nursery.  We also met up with some friends for lunch.  A good time was had by all.  Really. It was a lovely day and the park was not crowded.  Its been 5 or 6 years since we've been to Busch Gardens andAllison didn't remember it at all so it was like a new park to her.  Fun Stuff.  Today we're going to hunt for shark's teeth at the beach.

Here's a peek at Spring Break 2010:  Looks like that year we went to Epcot and the Disney water parks.  That's always a super fun time for us too.  Wow they look little.

The Hunger Games Scrapbooking Challenge (Day 21): Effie Trinket

Welcome, Welcome, to Day 21 of The Hunger Games Scrapbooking Challenge!  Today we are taking our inspiration from Effie Trinket!  She is the highly made up picker of Primrose's name in the reaping ball on The Hunger Games movie trailers.  She is the one who says "May the Odds be Ever in Your Favor!"

I don't imagine there are many on Team Effie, but there was something about her that I liked despite her being outwardly despicable.  For me, I felt like maybe she was just misunderstood.   

Effie reminded me a bit of my first year of highschool, a time when girls are desperately trying to fit in.  A time when I was labeled a "freshman airhead cheerleader" or at least that what the upperclassmen mean girls called us.  My BFF Katie R. and I would then pretend to be completely dumb and have ridiculous conversations like we really were freshmen airhead cheerleaders and then we'd giggle ourselves silly; but really, this was just a clever and fun defense mechanism we devised because some of those girls calling us names we would have looked up to.  Highschool - ahhh the lessons of conformity and breaking the rules.

Since then I've always had a soft spot for girls who are a bit misunderstood like Legally Blonde's Elle Woods and Clueless's Alicia Silverstone - what was her name, Cher?  Its the whole "don't judge a book by its cover" and you don't know a person "until you've walked a mile in their shoes" thing.  And it is fun to get all dressed up sometimes right?

{That's me from a couple years ago when we had a Pirate Themed Murder Mystery Party at our house - so very Capitol right?  I even wore hair extensions and was the Queen of something.}

While reading the books, I always wanted to know a bit more about how Effie got her job.  Was it assigned to her?, did she seek it out?, was she just playing her part in fear of what would happen if she messed up?, and did she secretly have a crush on Haymitch?  Something I loved about the way Suzanne Collins wrote her characters was that all of them were shades of gray, none were black or white.  So while Effie seemed like the worst of the worst in the superficial department since she was from The Capitol, I couldn't help thinking there was a little more to her under the surface and under all that make up. 

Spoiler Alert for the Hunger Games:  Effie Trinket:  The District 12 escort, who was happy and bubbly. She wore many different colored wigs and helped Katniss and Peeta get sponsors in the Games. She constantly bickered and argued with Haymitch. Very proper, she hated it when people did not have proper etiquette. Katniss was shocked when she found out Effie was a rebel. (source The Hunger Games wiki)

Scrapbooking Themes Inspired by Effie Trinket Can Include:

1. High School

2. Conformity

3. Misconceptions

4. Glamour Shots

5. Hair & Makeup

6. Winning the Lottery, and

7. Ettiquette. 

Here are some of my scrapbook pages that fit those categories:

High School Dating: From The Quarterback to the (dare I say it) Comical Nerd.  (20 plus years later: P.S. I love nerds.  And P.S. The Quarterback turned out to be an amazing guy too.  Much admiration for both of these guys.) 

 

 Ahh the glamour of a Disney Princess - here is my daughter with my BFF from highschool Nancy's daughter - on their way to learn the lessons of appearance and glamour and what's real:

And on excess in general, so very Capitol, here's a page of mine from 2007 - before the recession.

P.S. I still have most of this stuff give years later, and that clock still hangs on the wall in my scrapbooking room, it says "Scrap Happy - Think Big" in hot pink letters, an otherwise serious clock got glamourized, I love that.

If you make a page inspired by The Hunger Games Scrapbooking Challenge - please leave a comment with a link.  The movie comes out tonight at midnight - who's going?

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Springtime Scrapbooking

It is starting to feel like spring and a change of seasons for me means some seasonal scrapbooking:

My grandma used to wear seasonal scarves, I don't normally wear scarves but I do mark the seasons with my scrapbooking projects:

 

I use Stacy Julian's Library of Memories System so that most of my scrapbook layouts are in the 3 ringed binder 12x12 albums.  When a particular section of an album builds up, I'll take out those layouts and put them in a post bound "bump out" album.  I have a 12x12 post bound Spring Themed scrapbook album that includes traditional 12x12 scrapbook layouts along with page protectors with spring themed photographs so that the pages are all different and I get to use a lot of my photographs in one album:

I keep a 12x12 framed scrapbook page in my kitchen with the current season's "Bucket List" - its time to update since it is now February and the frame still contains our Fall Bucket List:

After I take the Fall Bucket List Layout out of the frame, it will go into either the "Things We Do - Seasons" part of my Library of Memories Album or it will go into a Fall "bump out" album depending on which album has extra space.  I love that making a seasonal scrapbook page or mini book can mark time, especially since I live in Florida and there are no clear changes in the seasons.  Making seasonal scrapbooking pages and projects help me and my family to notice and celebrate the seasonal things we do and to establish seasonal traditions in our family.

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Disney Water Parks Mini Album

Disney Water Parks Mini Scrapbook Album:

Spring Break is right around the corner, I'm not sure what are plans for the kids are yet.  Most years, I take them to Disney World.  A few years ago we went to the Disney Water Parks, Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon and I've got a stack of pictures to prove it but nothing in the way of a scrapbook.  Over the weekend I took those photos and started on a mini book.

 Here's a video show and tell of the Disney Mini Book in progress:

 

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What is Scrapworthy?

I've been thinking about what is scrapworthy.  Back in the day, we used to say "Now, that's something to write home about."  And I actually knew exactly what that meant since most of my childhood summers were spent at sleep away camp and we actually did write home, I would love to see some of those old letters (Mom- do you have any?) to see what was worth writing home about when I was 8 or 9 which is how old my kids are now.  I was looking through some pictures on index sheets from Shutterfly from 2010 and was amazed at how many things have changed since I took those pictures despite that we have had no major changes in our lives - everything thing seems "same old - same old" nothing to write home about, but in fact there is a lot to write home about.  In other words, there is a lot of life happenings to make scrapbooking pages about, but even though I make lots and lots of scrapbooking pages, there are so many things that don't make it into the scrapbooks just because life happens at the speed of light these days.  

For this page I used two index prints and then put numbers on random images and in the journaling I explained what the photo was about.  For example #6 is about the kids playing virtual shuffleboard at Epcot - in the context of the fact that virtual anything in my childhood only occurred on re-runs of the original Star Trek and that we recently went to NASA where there was a giant Star Trek display and/or that we live in St. Petersburg, Florida which, I'm pretty sure, is the shuffleboard capital of the world - there's a scrapbook page there right?    That is exciting stuff.  Lots of possible connections.  BUT.  I have not made a scrapbook page about virtual shuffleboard and chances are I never will, or maybe I will since I did this blog post - or maybe the blog post is enough on the subject of virtual shuffleboard? 

The point being that there are so many stories to tell and so many photos, that as the scrapbooking mom, I decide which stories are scrapworthy and which ones will freeze time and melt hearts.  These concepts were part of Stacy Julian's email #2 in the Twelve Class at BPC and are related to Stephanie Medley Rath's theme of Scrapworthy Lives.  Both are great creative jumping off points.

It was an easy page to put together.  I did the journaling in my word processor before I made the page and I just printed it out on regular copy paper, gasp, but so very easy and then I taped it to some cardstock and voila - scrapbook page done.

Journaling Reads:

Scrapworthy Lives : Back in the day, we used to say "oh that’s something to write home about" long before emails or iphones or video chatting. Long before digital cameras when we might have 24 pictures from the whole year - instead of from one afternoon. These days, I take a lot of photos, I even make scrapbook pages about lots of them. But truth is, I take tens of thousands of photos a year, literally, so what’s scrapworthy is sometimes what I have bothered to print - and sometimes scrapworthy pics don’t get scrapped - and that’s OK. I try to tell as many stories as I can so that one day you both can look at these images and have some context and ultimately have proof that you were loved beyond measure by me and Daddy. Here are 15 random scrapworthy moments from 2010 that chances are didn’t make it on to a scrapbooking page:

1. I picked you up from school on the last day of school and surprised you both with a trip over to Disney World.

2. We stopped at the office so we could kiss Daddy goodbye - he has the "no Disney" pass & I’m the Disney Mom.

3. The trip over to Disney is 1.5 hours and I always get a bit emotional when I pass through the gate - it is the real reason I chose to live in FL.

4. We take a picture of where we park so we can find our minivan later.

5. Mac used to hate God’s golfball but this trip you were brave & loved it.

6. You played virtual shuffleboard.

7. Daddy always reads the morning news paper & its best to let him finish.

8. Every 6 months I go on a cleaning binge & clean the entire house.

9. Dukey Boy is no longer with us.

10. That table is no longer with us but Allison and I still use the sewing machine almost every day.

11. We have tadpoles & other random creatures in our house at any given time, I think this is a snail.

12. Ally in her bathroom before the kid room switch & rocking long hair & a pony tail - shortly after you switched rooms & Ally cut off her hair.

13. Ally wanted a craft caddy tote just like mine. $12.

14. Ally uses the pouty face to get practically anything especially useful on Daddy & less so on me.

15. Allison was riding her bike w/ training wheels and just this past Christmas Eve took them off!
It amazes me that I try to capture so much and still there is so much happening and changing all the time. I just want to freeze time & melt hearts with these scrapbooks; chances are I’ll melt my future’s self’s heart - and hopefully the two of your hearts too.

I love you. - Notes from Mommy / Katie 1/5/12.

 

I could make so many scrapbooking pages about any one of those 15 items and bazillion more; but I won't, there isn't enough time.  But there is time for me to do a little something everyday which is what I do try to do.  How do you determine what is scrapworthy and how do you fit scrapbooking into your daily / weekly  / monthly  routine? 

Lucky: One Year Ago - No Line at the Zip Line at Blizzard Beach

(Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQHkXbaB0oU in case that Flash Box doesn't work for you ).

We got extremely lucky last year at Blizzard Beach - the park was almost empty and the Disney Photographers were in training so I got about a bazillion pictures of Allison Zip Lining - and she must have done this a bazillion times because there was no line - at all!  I took this video of her then - getting the hang of uploading my camera videos to You Tube as my online back up system. 

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Iphone Scrapbooking - Disney

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Princess Pep Talk

These pictures and the journaling aren't from the same day, and they don't really explain the whole story that inspired this page,  but they were close in time and related to my theme of Allison giving me a "Princess Pep Talk." 

 

Here's the Story:  We had a major Mac & Mommy meltdown on his 9th birthday.  I felt just awful about it, it was not what I had planned at all.  After trying my best to handle the situation in the best way I could think of that would accomplish Love & Logic and good parenting and trying to combine a little consequences and tough love with giving him a break because it was his birthday, I was just emotionally spent and when the situation was finally diffused, I disintegrated into a full on out loud crying mess.  Allison was there to give me a hug and talk me back to a happier place.  Even then I was conflicted about letting her see me cry like that, she even mentioned that she had never seen me "real cry" before.   I'm not sure exactly if or when I will ever scrapbook the whole meltdown story, but I did want to scrapbook and remember and highlight the incredible way that Allison was so loving and cheered me up when I really needed someone to do that.  Granted, it shouldn't be my 7 year old daughter, and I talked to Charlie about a lot of issues and about how we could find solutions to challenges together; but I am thankful to have a daughter who has always seemed to me like an old soul, she is really amazing.  I love you Ally and Charlie and Mac. 

P.S.  We saved the day later after Daddy got home and Mac declared it "The Best Birthday Ever!"  So all's well that ends well and I'm moving forward.

P.S. I printed out this block entry and taped it to the backside of the page so its like my hidden journaling of the meltdown and why I made this page.

Supplies?  GDC rub ons & Glitz Designs journaling blocks.