Egypt Pages

One of our favorite things to do in Cairo is go out on the Nile in a felucca. Luke especially loves it. Here's a page from his album.


Our first getaway in Egypt was to Al Arish, on the Mediterranean. It was a relaxing time away from the noise of Cairo. This is the first of several pages from our family book. The paper is Creative Memories.

This Al Arish page is from Luke's book.


During one of our dinners out, Luke stole a whole profiterole off my plate while no one was looking, stuffed the whole thing in his mouth, and grinned. This page tells the story. It's one of the first times I've journaled on the computer and printed it out. The little round tag says, "profiterole thief."



I started doing calendar pages in our family book in August. Here's the September page. I had saved this dragonfly paper (right side of layout) for months waiting for something neat to use it on. I stamped the pattern at the top of the left page. There are two more dragonflies on the pages, too--one white transparency one, and another my mom made out of beads and wire. It's hard to see them from this photo, but this is one of my favorite layouts.


We visited the pyramids for the first time in September. Here is a page from Luke's book. I used lots of CM papers for our Egypt pages. The colors were great for a lot of the sightseeing we've done. The blue and green tiles in the bottom corners of the pages were really bright blue and green, and I aged them with cat's eye inks. They say things like discover, explore, adventure, etc. and we got them from a grab-bag of stuff Mom bought at Jo-Ann.

and a pyramids page from the family book:

I made the tassels out of embroidery floss. Inspiration for that page came from the blankets draped over the camels. The page on the right is missing one thing I'd like to add to the top left--a little scarab beetle bead that Luke got at the pyramids. It's too fat to put in the book, though, so I am going to scan and and print it later and do something neat with it then.

We went to Luxor in October. There were so many amazing things to take pictures of there, and when I got my photos developed I just had too many, so my challenge was to incorporate the pictures without making 8 pages just of Luxor. I made a little flip book on the LH side of this page to use about 10 of the photos. There's a lot of journaling in there, too.

This is another Luxor page. The bottom right has a booklet that opens up. I made the fastener using eyelets and embroidery floss. There are more pictures inside and journaling space.


Another one of my favorite pages. I loved the red & blue paper . The label on the LH side is not actually metal-I made it out of silver CM paper and brads.


Here's the November calendar page. Very simple, but I love that green paper w/ brown polka dots.


We went to Alexandria in November. Here are 3 pages from there.

Spring & Summer 07 Layouts

This picture is blurry, so I'll have to go back and take another, but I love this layout. Adapted from a really cute one I found with a picture of a sleeping baby. I used chipboard letters, ribbon, paper, cute bunny stickers, rub-on stitching, and a brad or two. I also used embroidery floss and stitched around the picture on the left hand page.


Same Easter, family album. I loved the brown pattern and the ribbon-striped paper.


This is the cover page from Luke's 2-year old album. The leather ties are made from a piece of leather from Jason's old houseshoes!


We had a really rainy summer in Texas. July 4 was so wet! This is the only picture I took that day, but I love the scrapbook page. I took a ridiculous amount of time to stamp the words to "rain rain, go away" on the background paper. The red rick-rack is from my grandmom's sewing kit.


We went camping last summer and took Luke for a swim in the lake. I'd been saving these silver letters for a year and a half and finally had a page to use them on!


We had a going away party in Justin before we went to Wisconsin. These 2 pages mark those events. I love the combo of the red ribbon with orange dots and the red-orange Creative Memories paper with swirlies on it. I'd saved that paper a long time to use on some cool page!

In Wisconsin, we went to a county fair, where Luke got to ride a ferris wheel for the first time. It was clear right away that the fair would be one of Luke's favorite memories, so I wanted to make some really neat pages for the scrapbooks about it. This first one is in our family album. The ferris wheel doesn't spin. I used rub-on stitches to make the details on the wheel, and the cars are made from chipboard tags. The paper is Creative Memories.


This is from Luke's book. The ferris wheel spins and inside are pictures of us on different rides at the fair.

Five from Luke's Book

Following the lead of some of my friends who had kids before me, I make a family album and an album for Luke. I do more pages in my family album than I do in Luke's book, but some of my favorites are in his album.


I steal a lot of ideas from scrapbook magazines and other scrapbookers. This one is maybe my favorite page I've EVER done, and I adapted it from a layout I found in a magazine. Each little strip of brown paper has a different sentence about Luke. I write to him in 2nd person in his album, as if the whole thing is a letter to him.

Here's another layout I adapted. I love drawing my own letters, but I get pretty lazy a lot of the time and end up using stickers. I have such a large reserve of stickers left over from my CM Consultant days, that I need to use them up. I love these bubble letters, though, and the way the mis-matched paper with circles on it seems to end up going together.

My photography of the pages is not great, so you can't really tell that the background of this page is dark denim paper. I love the green bandanna paper and how it looks with the bluebonnets.

This layout includes several of Luke's favorite friends from Texas. Again, stolen from another layout idea I saw on cre8joy.typepad.com.


I love simple layouts that turn out well. This layout is very dear to me. The little uniform Luke has on belongs to my Daddy. He wore it as the mascot for the Greenville HS football team when he was little. Luke is holding a picture of me in the uniform, holding a picture of Daddy in it. I let the uniform's stripes inspire the stripes on the page. The little scuffed black cleats inspired me to use black paper to back the photos, tear the edges, and use white ink to age the edges.