Katie & Jane

Leftovers Bella BLVD

When I "finish" with a line, I used to put all the scraps in a bag to use another time. But then I just have tons and tons of scraps that I never look through. So now I just make as many cards and blank pages as I can with the leftovers, and chuck the tiny scraps and stickers that I just can't see myself ever using. I'm pretty happy with these blanks! I made a few cards, too, but the pictures turned out so poorly that I'm not posting pictures of them.

Tyler's Album, Movin' Right Along

 Moving along on Tyler's album, using a combination of Bella BLVD lines and their awesome Sophisticates alphas, which I LOVE, especially for a project like this. Always need more letters! 1989

 Love the dino holding the football! :)

1992. Next comes a few years with barely any pictures.

Echo Park Life is Good

I bought Echo Park's collection pack (I adore companies who sell their complete lines in collection packs.) and finally got around to using it the last couple of nights.

The main event! When my scrapbooking girls came to visit, they got such a kick out of reading Katie's 2009 tweets that I figured I may as well put another book on the shelf next to it. I already had the tweets copied from Twitter onto a Word document, formatted, and printed, so it was easy to start. I just chose the paper pack to use, and went to work! Everything in the album is from the collection pack except for those gorgeous blue chipboard letters in "tweets" on the front here. (Those are Bella BLVD.) I LOVE this line!

I still have to add ribbons. And an apostrophe. It's an album with an acrylic cover, from Little Yellow Bicycle. I love this for this album, since each page fits a ton of tweets on it.

 I put spaces for pictures, but didn't look through my photo archives for them yet...that's a project for another night. I inked the edges of the tweets, and used Mod Podge on everything to make it nice and solid, since there aren't page protectors.

 Maybe my favorite part (except for the tweets themselves, of course) is the back.

I'd give it to Katie for her birthday next month, but I don't think she'll appreciate it for a few years. Instead, I think I'll get her that Sleeping Beauty dress and a big giant lollipop. :)

As a happy by-product of the main project using it, I created two pocket pages for our 2011 memorabilia. With my blog books, I don't do chronological scrapbooking, but I still need a place to put tickets, birthday cards, etc.

And to use up the rest of my scraps (seriously, I only throw away tiny pieces after I've used all I possibly can.), I made a few cards. I end up sending quite a few for my church these days. Especially get well soon cards, can you tell?

Creative Productivity

These should be last on the post, but I made a few Thank You cards for Tyler to send to his interviewers at EPPA.

I'm in love with these teeny tiny alphabet stickers from LilyBeeDesigns. So cute.












And then I made a few more pages for Tyler's book. Some of these are my favorites yet! Probably because of the Bella BLVD lines. I love that I can use pieces and stickers I have left over from past lines, and they mix right in! Also that I can mix in a little pink without it being too overwhelming to this boy album.
Movin' right along, 1988-1989. Almost a decade down!
It's quite a project.

And then, because the episode wasn't quite over, I put together these little books with my Zutter Bind-it All. Just a 4x6 piece of chipboard for the covers, and 4x6 pictures inside. I made one for Katie awhile ago, and both girls love them. So I printed out more recent pictures and am going to give them them for their birthdays this year. Well, Jane's will be late, but I don't think she'll mind. Or notice.

I love creative productivity!