Working on my Wedding Album

Last Saturday was scrapbooking day with my friends.  I began working on our Wedding pictures there and worked on them during the week.  I guess after being married 21 years it is about time to finish them. I have about 2 more pages to finish.

 

Our Family

 

Richard's Sisters

 

More of the sisters

I hate that my scanner trims the pages I scan, the left side of this page has a nice lace design.

Lots of his family

More family

You can double click on the pictures and see them bigger. 

 

More Scrapbooking

Well after scraping day with friends I came home and made a couple of more pages for my Life Story book.  This page explains my name, I was named after my grandmothers and I added their pictures to the page.  They both had died before I was born, so I don't personally know them. 

 

Mary Elizabeth

 

I also did another page for my baby brother.  I used some ideas from Kiwi Lane.  I still have a hard time covering up the designs, but I am sure I will be soon.

 

Eddie

 

Today I watched this video done by Kiwi Lane showing how to make this waterfall page and I went right into my sewing room and made it. The link will take you to the You Tube video.

 

 

There are three pages that fold over each other plus two frames on the main paper.  So Kierra and can place five pictures on this one page.  It was fun.  Each picture shows the different waterfall page.  In the top one I use my rounded tip scissors to hold down the top one, it wanted to pop up.

 

The flower was covered with double sided tape and then ribbon was place on top of the tape and cut around the flower shape.  Kierra isn't much of a flower girl but I think she will like this one.

 

I was going to place a skull embellishment in the flower center but I couldn't find them.  So I used a black flower.

 

I also managed to finish 3 more Yo-yos at this rate of three a week it will take me another 19 weeks to just finish the yo-yos.  Oh well, I knew it would be a slow quilt.

 

Well have a great week and have fun creating!

 

 

 

Results of my Scrapbooking Day with Friends

Well I finished a few more pages for Kierra's Wedding Album.  The black and red pages I did on Friday afternoon.

 

The Haunted Moon pages I did at my friend's home on Saturday.  About 4 or 5 of us get together once a month and scrap.  I really like how these two pages turned out, the black and silver look very sophisticated. 

 

Then it was time to work on some family history pages. 

Yours truly and my baby brother. 

 

 On my baby picture page I used one of my new framing templates from Kiwi Lane and punched the white with pink polka dots paper to thread my pink ribbon with white polka dots. 

Eddie is eleven years young than I am.  He is a grown man with a son of his own but he will always be my baby brother.  There are two brothers between us. I always felt closer to Ed when he was young. He was too young to give me as much grief like my other two brothers. Don't you just love the plaid shirt with the bow tie?

 

I think I did a good job with the girl and boy themes.

Well it is time for bed!!  Have a great week!

See What I Have Been up to!

I hope you all are having a fun busy week out there!  I have.

I spoke to my daughter Kierra and asked if she wanted any more pages for her wedding album.  I told her I learned a new technique and wanted to make more pages.  She was happy with the idea and she has some pictures from the honeymoon she can print.  The pages are done, she just has to stick the pictures in the corner slots.

 

 

 

 

 This is a two page spread.  I distressed that bright orange to tone it down.  If you click on the picture you can see a large version.

 

This is only a single page, I am running out of Halloween paper.

 

 

I have also done some more Yo-Yo blocks.  I now have 31 blocks complete.  Left size completed blocks.  Middle bottom, blocks with tacked down little yo-yos. Top tow center piles appliqued down center yo-yos.  Right side centers only tacked down. 

 

 

Yo-yo update

 

Plus I finally added the two side inter borders on my husbands new quilt.  His old one is almost a rag it is so torn up. So I only have the outer borders to go.  He wants hi-loft in it.  So I won't be quilting it, just tying.

 

Inner borders on

Well have fun! Happy stitching and scraping!

New Fun Website!

Today while checking email I had an email from Digital Scrapper.  I don't digitally scrapbook but I like to see some of her ideas.  On her blog she tells you about a link that makes text into shapes.  Her post gives lots of details on how to use the other site. 

 

So of course I had to try it and of course I than had a make a scrapbook page.  I guess I should take a picture of Mr. B and me to add to the page. 

 

Site to make the text shape is Festiste.  Just try it is fun!!!!

 

Script in a heart shape

See I did leave room to add a picture.  The text just tells the dates we meet, first date, when we married and that 21 years later we are still going strong!

 

That was fun! I had to share.  I bet you could print it on fabric for a quilt label also. 

 

Well have fun what ever you do!!

Doing a Little Sewing.

Remember how I said I thought I was half done with my Yo-Yo blocks.  Well I am a tad off. 

 

There are a total of 81 center blocks and 4 corner blocks so a total of 85.  I have the center Yo-Yos on each center block.  I have 28 blocks completed, three of those done this week.  I have 9 blocks with all small yo-yos tacked down.  So I have 57 more blocks to add Yo-yos and applique them down.  I think that is more than a tad off. 

 

This week's block.

I have also been doing some Family History Scrapbooking, you can see those pages on my Genealogy Blog. I was trying some new techniques I learned about at the scrapbooking convention last Friday.  It was fun.  Next plan to clean the sewing room to put borders on Mr. B.'s quilt. I had planned to do that this week but those pages took longer then planed.    

 

 

Wedding Series # 7

Here they are the last five pictures.

 

 

The Parents

 

Kierra's Flowers

 

Leaving in the limousine.

 

Just because it was so cute.

 

A place to keep ticket stubs from shows there saw or other fun things.

 

In case you are wondering, black and red are her favorite colors and that is why I used a lot of black and red.  And Halloween is her favorite holiday. 

 

Have a great day!

 

 

Wedding Album Series # 6

Happy Monday everyone!

 

 

Look at how happy the bride is!!  She was so nervous before the wedding, now she looks happy and relaxed. 

 

Maybe this page should be before the first page?  I found that trying to sequence the pages was hard.

 

Outside the Wedding Chapel, with your name in lights.

 

Your name and the date alternated.

 

Same as the other picture just different background paper.  I really like the plastic keys I found to put on these pages with the keys.

 

Well I was looking to see how many more pages I have and after todays five pictures and I only have five more pictures of pages to edit and post. The end is in sight.

 

 

Wedding Album Series # 5

I don't know about you but my week sure was a busy one.  I have been able to do some fun things again, which makes me feel like I am back among the living.  I taught an EQ 7 class Beyond the Basics.  I only had two students but they were excited and learned lots and we had fun and I did something besides be at home or do errands, so it was worth it.  Today I am going to the scrapbook convention.  And tomorrow Mr. B and I will have a date for our anniversary which was in March but I was too sick to go out. 

 

 

More Kisses

 

So tender

 

 

It's Official!

 

 

 

Look the coffin opens!

 

All the Guest that is me in red.  I refused to wear black, she loved the red and the wig!

 

 

Guest identified.

 

Well have a great day I am off!

 

 

Sewing Time

Well I am feeling better and coughing less.  I am so glad this was a long drawn out cough.  I am not done yet but better.  I'll be so glad to be off the steroids and the nebulizer treatment that makes me shake.

 

I actually found some sewing time.  I feel alive again!!

 

Charity Block

 

First I finished these two charity blocks I am doing with a group of my quilt friends.  We are making the quilt for a woman's shelter, the Fresh Start program.  We each are making two blocks and they will alternate.  We are all using red, cream and tans.  I think it will look very nice when completed.  Hopefully the recipient will feel valued and find more courage to lead a better life.

 

It was General Conference weekend and a good time to do some hand work.  I also decided in the evening once the foster kids are in bed and can do hand work as I sit with Mr. B and watch TV.  Since the kids bedroom is next to my sewing room, I can't sew when they go to bed.   So I found this project and started working on it again. 

 

Yo-Yos

Yes that is right, I started this two years ago. I forget how many I have done and how many I have to go yet, but I am more than half way.  I have 12 blocks here and I sewed down the centers on two and tacked on eight small yo-yos to each block.  Not bad for a weekend.  The littlest girl helped me pick colors for a couple of blocks and she even tacked down a couple of Yo-Yos. 
Next I will applique all those Yo-Yos. 
Now to go grocery shopping and do more laundry.
Happy Stitching!