Summer!
My favorite season (at least at the moment). In spring, it is spring! We are coming to the part of the summer when things are beginning to wind down and it makes me incredibly sad and a bit excited. I look forward to the back to school rush and getting to meet my new students and starting the school year! I LOVE to teach! But a big part of me doesn’t want summer to end! Throughout the summer I try to capture moments of the ordinary with photos as well as the special events while still being present in the moment! The beauty of capturing those images is being able to look back on them. I’m guessing if you are like most, you have a virtual “pile” of photos on your phone, downloaded onto your computer or sitting on your camera. Why not get them into an album? It really is easier than you think. Look at these pages: All you have to do is slip the photos in. No trimming if you don’t want to! If you want to write a note about what happened, have at it. If not, don’t bother and DON”T feel guilty about it!
This uses Stampin’ Up!’s Memories & More Photo Pocket pages and the Delightfully Detailed Memories and More Card Pack (147038 $10) This pack includes 50 total double-sided cards (2 each of 25 designs) in 3″ x 4″ and 4″ x 6″ sizes; 6 single-sided laser-cut specialty cards in 3″ x 4″ and 4″x 6″; and 4 sticker sheets! The colors in this are beautiful and go very nicely with these outdoor photos. It adds a pop of color and texture to the scrapbook pages!
This is Stampin’ Up!’s Best Route Memories & More Card Pack (147036 $10). This pack includes 50 total double-sided cards (2 each of 25 designs) in 3″ x 4″ and 4″ x 6″ sizes; 6 single-sided lightly embossed specialty cards in 3″ x 4″ and 4″x 6″; and 4 sticker sheets! It has so much in it! It’s the perfect companion for your travel pictures! Or to simply accompany your adventures! These packs are great for slipping in the Photo Pockets or even creating cards to send to friends and family!
Big Plans Memories & More Card Pack (146863 $10 ) has a beautifully subtle color scheme that whispers sweet things to me. This pack includes 50 total double-sided cards (2 each of 25 designs) in 3″ x 4″ and 4″ x 6″ sizes; 6 single-sided silver foil specialty cards in 4″x 6″; and 4 sticker sheets!
Over the 35 or more years that I have been scrapbooking, the way I did it has changed in style and method! When I first began it was in the old sticky albums that we now know causes your pictures to fade and deteriorate! Those albums are filled with sayings created by some wonderfully brilliant ad copy writer that I cut out of a magazine and placed alongside photos of my friends and me! When my first son was born I discovered Creative Memories thanks to my girlfriend Bethany. Both boys’ baby albums were Creative Memories with the photos cut out in cute shapes and layered on printed paper. I was never very found of the way those albums went together. I usually miss a whole group of pictures and end up needing to add photos between the pages I already created and the threading used to assemble the albums made that very difficult.
When Stampin’ Up! came out with their scrapbooking line I fell in love! I have Stampin’ Up! scrabooking tools ever since! And as my forms of scrapbooking have changed, so have Stampin’ Up!’s. The tools now available are the easiest I’ve ever used! There really is no excuse for not slipping in the pictures into the album! It is even more meaningful to me as I watch my boys get older and prepare to head off to college in the next few years. I am going to want those albums to remind me of when they were little!
