"Scrappers & Fighters"



These photos were so much fun scrapbooking! It was right after school was out and the army cadet kids were ready to head off to their many different summer training camp destinations. This was their final get together that Rachel planned...until Shannon and I took over and added to the Photo Scavenger Hunt! Those kids did not know what they were getting themselves into. To make a long story short, they had to collect various photos of objects and people with at least one person of each team in the photo. They had to be creative, and they were timed. We also pitted the guys against the girls...what better fun that to do a battle of the sexes! Their last photo and the one worth the most points was the two in this layout. I made the guys come to the croproom and get their picture taken with a room full of women (who knew ahead of time that they were coming), and I told the women to not make it to easy for them. Ha! Ha! They were pretty good sports about all of it. I then sent the girls to any fire station in the city and they had to get their picture taken with the firefighters. The more people, the more points. If they had a firetruck, more points. The losers had to buy the winners pizza. The girls ended up home here first and I think they won, but of course, my husband thinks the guys won, so we ended up buying the pizza that night. But they had a blast anyway! Hence the pun on the title, which Dawn came up with "Scrappers & Fighters". The page just has patterned paper, distress ink, biggie brads and of course Jolee's camera and fire engine. Look! No chipboard! I did use rub-ons though.

Sisters

This photo was taken just before Christmas 2006. Notice the chipboard, and bling? Didn't use the rub-ons though. Gotta love Basic Grey!



Chatterbox anyone? When I got this picture developed, I knew right away what paper I was going to use. Notice my three favorites on this page? I even did another favorite of mine...hidden jounaling. It's great to use on a page to save space, and it can also hide jounaling you don't want just everyone to read. As soon as Rachel get's the journaling done for this page, it will be complete!

One of our CI's took this candid photograph of PE & RT as they were waiting for Adventure Platoon to march past on their return from one of their many FTX's. This is one of my most favorite candid's of Rachel and I love what this photo stands for. They would run and grab their big alphabet and stand by the road when a company would come back from the field to welcome them home. The cadets are hot, tired, dirty, stinky, but what a nice feeling to hear fellow cadets clapping and cheering when you come marching back on base.
I have been big into journaling lately. I don't know if I will ever get caught up on the girls scrapbooks, so I have decided to take my time and concentrate on recording their achievements through their teenage years. I think is is also extremely important to let them know how I felt about their achievements, so my focus has been more on that than trying to play catch up. That will never happen! I used our 2" Roman Lowercase alphabet fonts at JSI, diecut them out of chipboard and cardstock for the word "achieve".




"Love"



Here is my March Staff Challenge page using the Technique Tuesday chipboard. This is amazing product! It is so easy to ink or distress! Of course, with models like that, you can just about use anything on the page and it would look good! lol You know, I have tried to not use my favorite products on everything, and I feel like the page just isn't complete. That's what so great about chipboard...there is enough out there to find just what you are looking for to complete your page. I have a few more pictures of Laura and Mikheal's wedding to scrapbook, so please keep checking back!

First Post

These layouts are from the Album I've done for my sister Lana's wedding.

The first is of my neice Hannah, the flower girl. I love working with multiple paper patterns.
The bling words are so versatile. Here's a little hint: I took "Hannakkah" and made the name
"Hannah" out of it! You will very seldom find a layout of mine that doesn't have either chipboard, rub-ons or bling! I don't think I can do it! Those are my three weaknesses...just those three. :-)

Do you ever have the dilema of "12" of almost the same pictures but because it is a special occasion, you feel you should use them? Or maybe you don't want six pages of the same kind of layouts...here is a solution. Not every layout has to have only one or two pictures. It is okay to put more than one photo on a page, and save those single photo layouts for the extra special shots!