Epic Journey

Good morning friends!

I hope you are all happy & well this morning.

Personally, I am freezing my hoobie off here in North Dallas today.

Which, frankly, just ticks me off.

 

I'm pretty sure I moved to TX and tolerate 120* summer days and living 1500 miles away from my family for the express purpose of NOT having to freeze my hoobie off.  

Clearly, I am getting screwed in this deal.

Anyway-

I have a non-Christmas-y project to share with you today.

As you know, I took a week-long vacation with my family at the beach just a few weeks ago. 

(Remember, back when it was warm?)

I printed the 8 bazillion photos that we took that week and am in the process of creating an album.

All of the photos are in the album, and all organized, I just have to make the layouts.

 

But, ya know, it's a slow process.

It's a huge album.

It's 8 bazillion photos.

So, I decided to make a mini-album from some of the left-over photos.

(As an FYI to the Fam-- this album and it's significantly larger sibling album are the reason that ya'll are getting store-bought Christmas cards this year.  

Just so ya know.)

Bound using 3" book rings from  an office supply store.

It's a little fat, but so am I, so I'm good with it.

Everything is 4"x6".  

I wanted to be able to just use the photos that I had, as is, so I cut all of my chipboard & PP to match the size photos I already had printed.

Here are some of the inside pages:

 

I really like the format of this album.

It was so simple and I love that the photos are the star.

And it was a great way to use a ton of older  supplies and stamps that I'd never even opened.

Supplies I used:

PP-MAMBI

Cardstock- Paper Studio

Flowers- Recollections

White Alpha Tiles- JoAnn Craft Essentials

Red Alphas- Spare Parts

Yellow Alpha- Chip Chatter

Acrylic Emblies- JoAnn Craft Essentials

Bling Swirl- Want To Scrap

Stickers- DCWV, Bo Bunny, Heidi Grace, K & Co, Colorbok, MAMBI, October Afternoon

Page Tabs- October Afternoon

Journal Tags & Left Over Word Strip- Creative Imaginations

Red Words & Brackets- Anna Griffin

Stamps- Theresa Collins, Ali Edwards for Technique Tuesday, Clearly Wordsworth, Art Gone Wild

Green Bling & Pearls- Making Memories

Blue & Orange Pearls- Glitterazzi

Pens- Slick Writers from American Crafts

Ribbons- Scraps from my stash

I'm definitely going to do this style album again.  

It was so simple & freeing to think only about jazzing up the photos themselves and nothing else.

Ok, off to get some more work done.

Hope ya'll are warmer than I am.

Maybe I'll ask Santa for some flannel jammies for Christmas.

Or a hot tub... Yeah, a hot tub would be good....