Last of the Scrapbook

Today I will be sharing the last of the scrapbook pages. This first page is just a mosaic of the tons of pictures I took at the botanic park. The idea came from one my scrapbook friends (non SU) and I took the pictures with this layout in mind. That's the first sign of an obsessed scrapbooker - taking pictures just for a layout!

This page documents our ride on the gondola to the top of Mount Werner.

Below are just a few of the sights from Downtown Steamboat.

This final page is our attempt at frolfing, or frisbee golf. We bought disc to go frolfing, but when we found the park, it wasn't in the best of conditions for newbies like us. 

Hope you enjoyed my trip to Steamboat with me! Tomorrow I will be back to cards.

Thanks!

More Scrapbook Pages and An Apology

Sorry I didn't get around to posting the rest of the pages last week, which was my intent. I was out of the office and I realized that I had the pictures saved to my desktop at work and couldn't find another copy of them. Anyways, hope everyone had a safe and happy Easter!

Here are two more pages of the scrapbook, both of Fish Creek Falls. The first page shows the falls from the top of the falls.

The second page is from the bottom of the falls. I don't know if you can read in the picture, but the sign says that the falls are 1/4 mile ahead. What it fails to mention is that there are a 1/4 mile downhill ahead. Which means to come back, it's a 1/4 mile uphill!

The last of the pages will come tomorrow (hopefully!)

Scrapbook Pages Part 2

Here are a few more pages from the scrapbook that I started to share with you yesterday.

This first spread is of a few of the things we say while walking or driving around Steamboat.

These pictures are of the Strawberry Park Hot Springs.

And finally these are pictures of when us swimming the in hot springs. It was a pretty big deal to see my dad in swimming trunks. He's one of those old fashion farm boys that never wears shorts.

More to come tomorrow.

Thanks for stopping by!

Scrapbook Share Part 1

Over the next two days, I'm going to be sharing you a scrapbook that I made my dad for Christmas. I took the pictures while the pages were in the sleeves (I had a hard time getting them in and forgot to take pictures beforehand), so there is some reflection and the quality isn't the best. All supplies were Stampin' Up! but I did use a non-SU product to make the titles.

One of my friends offers a "Have it Your Way" class, where she designs layouts and using whatever papers we choose we make the pages. She did an album class, which is what these are from. I used the Thoroughly Modern DSP and the coordinating cardstock colors: Sahara Sand, Bermuda Bay, Rose Red, Soft Suede and Whisper White.  You will notice that I'm not very good at journalling, so I'll try to give some background information.

This is of a trip that I took with my dad and aunt (my dad's sister) to Steamboat Springs, CO, last August. He was diagnosed with liver and lymphnode cancer that metastasised from his colon 2 years ago, last February. At that time he was given 6 months to 2 years to live. He is still with us, but now on Hospice and doesn't have much more time. Anyways, I wanted to take my dad on one last trip before he couldn't travel anymore and this is where we ended. Two factors played into the location, flights to Denver were very reasonable and my then boyfriend (now fiance) is part of a timeshare-like program where he purchases points to be used a various resorts and it just so happened that Steamboat Springs had one of these resorts. So we were able to use some of the points for a place to stay.

Here is the coverpage, which is just a picture of the three of us in front of some falls we saw, along with the location and date.

This next page shows the car that we rented to drive from Denver to Colorado Springs. The journalling on this page tells about the car I upgraded to (a hardtop convertible) and the first souvenior I received from Colorado Springs (a speeding ticket).

The final page I'm going to share with you today is of the condo that we stayed at using TC points.

Birthday Share

Well I'm on the road to go get TC, but here is one of the cards that I worked on yesterday in my mad dash to finishing up my swaps. Of course I had to pick a (more) complicated design for the card that I had to make the most of (17). I used Party Hearty for the stamp set. And yes, that's my shadow again in the picture.

The dimensions are a little trickier for this one, given all the paper piercing, so I will give you the dimensions I used initially (but beware I have a lot of leftovers). I did find a maybe more efficient way to cut the pieces, but I haven't tested it yet. The two larger pieces of DSP (Thoroughly Modern) are cut from 3.75" x 4" rectangles, the small corner DSP(also Thoroughly Modern) is a triangle cut from a 1" x 1.25" rectangle, the Bermuda Bay strip is 0.5" x 3.75" and the Soft Suede strip is 0.75" x 3.75".  The image is stamped on a piece of 2" x 2.25" Whisper White and the other layers increment by 0.25".

Tomorrow I will have a tutorial of sorts of cutting the pieces, so stay tuned!

12 Days of Christmas: Day 6

Here is another sneak peak from the new Occasions Mini, using I {Heart} Hearts and Fine Florish.  Colors are Rose Red and Whisper White. I also used the new Pinking Hearts border punch and Thoroughly Modern DSP. This is for a Lots of Layers swap, which requires 8 different layers, 1 ribbon, 2 punches, and at least three eyelets, buttons or brads.