I'm back! My Week in the Life Album

Sorry I have not posted in forever.....my Dad was very ill and then went to be with our Lord on April 15th. You can read all about it on my other blog in the post if you want to. I have been doing a few layouts here and there and lots of cards for friends and family that were so kind through everything that was going on with my Dad. I will get them posted eventually.....but today.....I am really excited to share with you my Week in the Life Album!
If you follow Ali Edwards you know she runs this on her blog and this is the first time I have been able to participate and I am so glad I did!
This album was such fun.......during the week and all the picture taking right down to putting it all together and journaling it all! I am thrilled with how it came out!
I used a We R Memory keepers 8.5/11 album and purchased some of Ali's products from Designer Digitals. I made my own templates in PSE8 and used those for the collages. I decided to do a hybrid album and used pattern paper and some flower embelly's to liven it up. Mostly it is about the photos and the journaling. It is well worth the time it takes to document a week in your life.....

Sketch challenges at CPCM and a free template

I have been invited to host the sketch challenges over at the Christian Paper Craft Magazine Forums! I am so excited and hope that you will pop over to join in! Every Tuesday I will post the sketch and best of all I am posting the digital template for you to download as well!!
These sketches can be used for layouts, cards or any project you would like to use them on....turn them, embellish them and really make them yours! I love sketches...they really help to get my pages going sometimes! If you make something with one of my templates please send a link! I would love to see it!

Here is this weeks sketch! And you can download it here!


Here is what I did with the sketch. I took an american crafts 6x6 mini album and altered it. I have been wanting to make a mini album of our trip to creation in 2005 (yes I am that far behind!) And this will be perfect for that!!

So come on over to the Christian Paper Craft Forum and play along with this weeks sketch!!

7 Gypsies Rubber band album...hybrid altered album

Challenge 18 at JS was to do a page about a goal. As I have been studying about being holy and striving to figure out what that looks like in my life I thought I would do a mini album with the verses I am reading and some quotes that really speak to me. This will be a great reminder to me of my goal to be holy. And believe me I need moment to moment reminders on this!!!














I used a 7 gypsies rubber band album and then some basic grey and we r memory keepers papers. Lots of fun ribbon and embellys and tags. I took the inside pages which were cream and used a technique I just learned over at 2 peas. Jennifer McGuire is doing a wonderful video class on inking over there for the rest of the month....and it's free! Check it out here Inking Class
I took distress ink and the inking tool and worked the spiced marmalade ink all over the paper. I love the way it looks.....very cool and easy. I even inked one of the flowers up in this way.
Looks like rain again today....more time to scrap...but the kids are bouncing of the walls!!!

Have a blessed day!!

Cancun Mini Album

Well I finished a really quick mini album. These are pics from our trip to Cancun in 2005....I have been wanting to get these into an album and when I heard of photo album scrapbooking...I knew it would be a fast way to get this done. Photo album scrapbooking is taking a regular album here I used a cute one from target that was 2 up, and combining it with embellishments and journaling. Stacy Julian from Big Picture scrapbooking talks about this and it is a great way to do a cute album quickly! Sorry about the glare from the page protectors....