Katherine's Scrapbook Blog: 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.