A Work in Progress-Disney Album 2009

With Caleb starting kindergarten in August I had high hopes of re-starting and finishing my Disney 2009 album. I approached this album differently than I approach my normal scrapbooking. I learned a long time ago that I could never scrap every picture, nor did I want to, so I just started scrapping the pictures that moved me, or the ones that helped tell a story that I wanted to tell. Well, for this vacation album, I wanted to treat it more like a picture album that did have most, if not all, of the pictures from the trip. Over the last couple of years we've been lucky enough to go to Disney several times because of a conference that John goes to every October and it just so happened that it was in Orlando in 2008, Anaheim in 2009, and then back to Orlando in 2010, but in the overall scheme of things going to Disney is not something that we get to do that often.

I finally figured out how I wanted to approach this album. I didn't want to just do a photobook in Shutterfly-I wanted a little more control over it and wanted it to be a bit fancier than that. So, I decided to approach it like my Holidays in Hand album that was taught at Jessica Sprague. Jessica had a template that you used for this album and it was easily manipulated into different configurations. So I decided to use that template throughout this album and then just keep it simple with different papers to match the pictures on the page, a few elements, the journaling and that would be that. That was the idea anyway. I did a few pages and they were turning out ok. I wasn't turning cartwheels over them or anything, but I was making progress. Here's an example of one of the first pages:

Paper and Elements-Crystal Wilkerson Sweet Summertime

Oh, and I was also going to try to do the album with kits I already had in my stash. I'd bought several Disney type kits and had a lot of other bright, cheery, kits that I thought I'd fall back on. Well, I started getting bored with the project and the pages and went looking for a little bit of Disney inspiration. That's when I found Steph's post on The Daily Digi about scrapping Disney. I found two things in that post that really inspired me: 1) Sweet Shoppe Designs-Steph posted several kits from the Sweet Shoppe and I LOVED them. So, I looked the Sweet Shoppe up and I have been hanging out there ever since. My scrapping budget has a very big dent in it now. 2) Aaron Morris-He had some layouts featured on the post that Steph wrote and I loved his style. Turns out he's on the creative team at the Sweet Shoppe. I loved the clustering that he does on his layouts and then I found out that he had a new class at Big Picture Scrapbooking on clustering. I signed up, loved it, and alas, my simple Disney album has morphed into a crazy, clustery, complicated album. I keep telling myself to tone it back down a bit, but then I think the page looks a little sad, and empty and I start adding things to it. Oh well. I'm getting close to being done. Here's a look at some of my clustery pages:




Traci Reed-Wordy Bubbles
Kit-Dani Mogstad That Old Black Magic



Kit-Mouse Magic 1&2 Melissa Bennet



Kit-Julie Billingsly Carnival Thrills
All Templates-Holiday In Hand Template from Jessica Sprague

Elf on the Shelf-Mr. Peppermint

Yes, Christmas is just a memory now, but we had a lot of fun with Mr. Peppermint this year so I thought I'd show you some of the highlights. Most of these ideas were not original. I saw them on pinterest or message boards. I really enjoyed doing this year because Caleb got such a kick out of it. It was much more fun to have Mr. Peppermint do things than to just move to a different spot every day. Caleb told lots of people about Mr. Peppermint and would always say, "He's always up to something!" Kind of like someone else I know! I am proud to say that I've already done a layout on this, so I will share that too.

Template:Cindy Schneider's Double It Up Set Six from The Sweet Shoppe
Kit: Katie Pertiet's Elfin Magic from Designer Digitals

Caleb at 5

I've been meaning to do this layout for months. I like to do a layout every 6 months or so that shows what Caleb is doing at that point in his life. I finally got off my tush and made the layout the other day. I love it. The photos on the left side were taken by my friend Melissa Abadie during our family photo shoot that she did a few weeks ago. I used the kit Blink of an Eye from Traci Reed and Kristin Cronin Barrow, Word Bubbles by Traci Reed, Fill Er UP font by Darci Baldwin, and Half Pack 21 Template by Cindy Schneider.

Half Marathon, 13.1 Miles, or in layman's terms, a long freaking way

Well, this post is a little late, but it seems like everything in my life is late these days so this just goes right along. One of the reasons that this post is late is because I've been debating on ordering the photos of myself from the half. I have a hard time justifying spending $70 on pictures of me with little to no makeup on, but I figured to commemorate my fist half that I had to have some photo documentation of it. Proof of little to no makeup, proof of sweat, and proof of accomplishment. So, I bit the bullet, ordered the pics, wrote down my experience with the half marathon and made a scrapbook layout. So, here's the layout. You can click on the second page to read the journaling.





Digital template by Cathy Zielske, papers by Crystal Wilkerson

Additional sets for sale

Friendship alpha small-$7


Felicity -$7


D1377 Around the block $7


D1257 Make it count $7


Postmarked $3

CTMH Items updated

I am dropping to “former consultant” on June 30th and would like to sell off some of my stash. If you are interested in any of the items you can email me at cojored@gmail.com. I ship based on weight so please include your zip code with any inquiries and I will let you know how much shipping will be. I prefer Paypal for payment at cojored@gmail.com. Your prompt payment is very much appreciated as I only have a few more days to sell these items on the CTMH board. I will ship the items out as soon as I receive payment.

Blocks
1x1 block $2.00 (3 available)
1x1.5 block $2.25
2x3.5 block $3.75


Sassy Strands Spring Harmony $2.00

Sassy Strands Summer Carnival $2.00

E size Rustic Alphabet E1002 $10




D1375 Treasures $7



D1204 Delight in Everything $7


D1309 Heartthrob $7



D1406 True friends $7





D1307 Annotations $7


D1330 Connections $7


D1221 Delightful Alphabet $7



D1112 Seasonal Celebration $7



D1227 Legendary Moments $7


D1254 Soul Mates $7


D1247 From Me to You $7


D1339 moments in time $7



D1208 Ticket Tags $7


D1066 Romantic Backgrounds $7


C1359 Sweet Baby $5.00



C1279 Roughin' It $5.00



C1290 Memory Labels $5.00


B1306 Cottage Floral $3.50



B1337 set from Twitterpated $3.50