New York City Mini Albums

In Stacy Julian's 20 in 20 class for July the time is Places.  One of our assignments was to complete a project that was about a place.  Well, I still had not finished our scrapbook for our 2019 trip to New York City so thought I would complete that.

I was struggling.  I had A LOT of photos from our fun time at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum and I had them all printed out as 4 x 4 prints.  I planned to do a 12 x 12 album and get the pages that were divided for 4 x4 photos.

I couldn't find them at the stores anywhere and was about to order them online when I watched one of Stacy's videos and she highlighted a trip to New Zealand that she documented with 4 x 4 mini albums.  This was perfect!  I ordered a set of 3-4x4 albums and got to cropping my remaining photos.

As I waited for the albums to arrive I planned them out.  Each album held 48 photos which was exactly the right amount to hold all the photos but some memorabilia as well.  I had some tickets and brochures and wanted to make sure they were included.

Because part of the assignment also included using maps I decided to print out Google Maps for the routes that we took.  I was also able to incorporate journaling some little touches describing photos.

It was the perfect solution and I love how it came out.

New York Scrapbook

I finally finished the 8x8 scrapbook from our trip to New York in March for my 40th birthday.

Title Page 

On the plane getting ready to leave.  "New York City, here I come!"

Central Park Zoo

Carriage Ride in Central Park

Empire State Building.  "This is where Buddy's daddy works."

Statue of Liberty

Bug-a-Boo at the Statue of Liberty

"I'm as beautiful as New York City!"

9/11 Memorial

Times Square

Surf & Turf at the American Museum of Natural History

New York slice and 1st cab ride

Playing in Central Park

Last page of book

Bug-A-Boo's Pals

Awhile ago I took some pictures of some of Bug-A-Boo's favorite toys/stuffed animals thinking that I would put together a PAS (Photo Album Scrapbook) for her.  I think that it was actually last year and I have just now gotten around to putting it together.

LOAD 15

Halfway done with the month and I'm feeling a little burnt out.  It could also be that we only have 3 more days until we leave for Disney World.  

Anyway, here is layout 15.

Mother LOAD 14

Today's thought:
Today is Way Back Wednesday. On Wednesday, we're hopping in the time machine and going back, back, back in time! Maybe we'll revisit an old scrapbook trend, or maybe we'll pull up a color combo popular in, say, 1986 (fluorescence, anyone?). By doing this, we can discover a few things:

1. Most of us have some older stuff in our stash we haven't touched in a while.
2. The "old" stuff is old often only because we say it is.
3. Trends come and go in scrapbooking, just as in fashion and music.
4. There should be a number 4 but I'll be gole-darned if I can think of one! (Old age sucks).

Anyway, often we can make something "old" new again quite easily. This will help us stretch our stash, use what we have, and not feel so guilty about investing in fourteen rolls of Mrs. Grossmans' stickers.

Ready?

Today's prompt:
About six months ago, I was going through a major purge in preparation for (yet another) move. I eyed my binders full of acrylic stamps and was all ready to say goodbye to them. After all, I hadn't stamped for ages!

Crazy. I started as a stamper in the early '90s before I was even a scrapbooker (at least in the modern sense of the word). I went to stamp shows and mounted my own rubber stamps and made my own stationery. It was cool and fun. And then I started scrapbooking and stopped stamping.

I thought the two were mutually exclusive. After all, why would I want to stamp on a scrapbook page? I did it for a while in the early 2000s, but found it too fussy, complicated, and time-intensive. So it was time to let the stamps go in the interest of simplifying.

Until…

…until I took a class with Jennifer McGuire. She re-invigorated my love of stamping, reminding me how fun it was and how easy it could be to use stamps on scrapbook pages. It didn't have to be complicated and fussy. It could be simple, elegant, and creative!

So my new scrapbook room has storage for stamps-a lot of storage-because I have a lot of stamps.

I love that.

Today, you're going to stamp on a scrapbook page. Stamp your title, a border, an embellishment - whatever you like. And when you do it, think about the good ole' days.

I never really got into stamping, but I do have a few alphabet sets so I used some of those.

Mother LOAD Day 9

Today's prompt:
By now you probably have a pile of scraps on your desk (or under it!). Good - because today we're putting them to work. Dig into these little piles of goodness and find some scraps that you can put to work on your page. Maybe some small edges of patterned paper from Tuesday, or the pieces you cropped off your photo yesterday. Use what you find!