It's a Happy Place Layout

I'm finding that progress on my Hawaii mini-book is proceeding slowly.  I just encourage myself that it is proceeding.  Here's a page I made featuring photos from our trip on the Hawaiian Railway.  My son loves steam trains and thought this was the best.

Theres some Maggie Holmes Signature Series and Simple Stories Summer Fresh.  A Heartfelt Creations Posy up in the corner.

Most of the elements are fussy cut from the Simple Stories patterned paper pack including the sun, chevron, sentiment, ticket, etc.  I used some rub-ons to add the Train Ride title and hand wrote on the ticket.  The book is getting close to a finish.  Hopefully I don't get too distracted and delay the finish...

A Hand Car Layout

Just popping in today to share some more photos of the Hawaii mini-book I'm making.  These two pages are from my son Timothy's favorite day on the island.  We went to visit the Hawaiian Railway Society.  We'd bought our tickets for the steam engine railroad ride and while waiting took these photos near the trains on display. 

The papers for both layouts came from the Maggie Holmes Signature Collection.  The tag on this first page was stamped with my Stampin' Up Apothecary Art stamp and then colored with my Distress Markers.  I think I used Shabby Shutters and Broken Glass for the most part with a little Peeled Paint thrown in for shading.  I then cut the label apart creating the two pieces for the album. 

The blue posies were stamped with Faded Jeans Distress using my Heartfelt Creations Posy stamps and cut with the matching dies.  The center is a bit of Flower Soft- mixing a dark blue and a dark green for the final effect. After a little 3D magic, they were strategically placed on the image.

As an added surprise, an engineer asked the kids if they'd like to take a hand car ride.  Enthusiastically, they both said yes and rode off without Mom and Dad- not a common occurrence with my two introverted, shy children. 

More Maggie Holmes on this page with a chipboard accent from the same set.  Everything is edged with some Scattered Straw and Vintage Photo Distress ink. 

Life is Good Hawaii Mini-book Layout

These pages were full of pictures from our trip to Iolani Palace.  This location is rich in Hawaiian heritage and we thoroughly enjoyed our day out. 

The layout is made using paper from the Maggie Holmes Signature Collection from Crate Paper.  The wood embellishments were inked with Worn Lipstick Distress Ink and layered over pieces from the Maggie Holmes collection. 

The opposing side was simply finished with another of the fabric Polaroid frames.  Both butterflies are chipboard elements from the collection.

I'm not sure the Maggie Holmes stuff counts as from the stash as I bought it for this project earlier this year.  However, The wood pieces are from the stash- at least 18 months old- and are from a set where I've kept the leftovers hanging around.  I'm going to link this one up with the Use It Tuesday Challenge #66: Creatures.  If you've got the creepy crawlers in your project, come join the fun.

More Happy Hawaii Layouts

I thought I'd share these pages from the Hawaii mini-album.  I actually did these pages a few weeks ago but they've sat waiting to be photographed as I took my Creative Chemistry class.  I intended to get to them but work is demanding some attention and keeping me from taking the time.  These two pages use more of the Maggie Holmes Signature Series.  The pictures were taken at the Punch Bowl memorial to the Pacific theater WWII men that were lost in the war.  The view is spectacular, but mostly you are aware and grateful for those men who paid a price for America to be free.  We visited with Dan's parents and spent time at the memorial reading about the war and the men interred there. 

These layouts use some pieces of store bought paper doilies and some die cut tags, from the Cricut and from my Quickutz dies.  The twine is from the stash as well as the swirl.  Simple layouts, but they keep the pictures the star.

Day 2- A two page layout for the Hawaii scrapbook

So I, albeit slowly, continue to plug my way through my catch up project.  Today I'm sharing a layout I put together for our first full day in Hawaii.  We knew that we wanted to get to the USS Arizona memorial early in the day to soak in the sites and information without the bustle of the crowds which inevitably flock to the memorial.  Since we were still on Arizona time, the first day seemed appropriate.  We slept in until 6 am (because we went to bed early the night before, exhausted from our flight).  Four showers, a shared breakfast with Dan's parents, and we were off on our adventure of the day.  We arrived before the memorial opened, so we took a moment to stop by the signage out front.  The page is made with the patterned paper from the Maggie Holmes Signature Series and a piece of grid patterned paper from the stash. The sentiment was created by covering a chipboard letter D with a patterned paper scrap and sanding the edges.  I paired it here with a "a" and "y" from a metal "Baby" set that's been in the stash for nearly a decade (bought a set of three, used one and kept the other two... don't know why except it kinda works here) and with a chipboard piece from the Maggie Holmes Signature Series Chipboard Stickers. 

The matching second page uses more chipboard pieces from the set and one of the fabric frames from the Signature Series Stitched Fabric Frames.  The sentiment was cut from one of my stash papers and stapled in place... what do you think... too many staples?  I agree but the freak in me would let me remove them because of the holes that would be left behind.  In some sort of weird way, holes are *worse* than too many staples.  I'm telling you, I'm a nut!  Just a small Floral Flourish to peak around the frame and I'm done.

Yeah- three whole pages scrapbooked.  A few more to go.  Just keep on scrappin', scrappin', scrappin'.

Day 1- Hawaii Scrapbook Page

Bear with me as I figure out the best method for photographing these pages.  I'm finding scrapbook page photographing to be very different than card photographing.

This page shows a picture right after our very long flight to the islands.  We're all washed out, tired and a little weary.  That's one of the reasons I chose to use my Here Comes the Sun stamp from the now defunct Market Street Stamps. 

I used my Scattered Straw Distress Ink to stamp the sunburst and my Worn Lipstick Distress Ink using a second gen image of the hibiscus flower from Hero Arts Luscious Frames stamp set.  The Hawaii 2008 was printed on the computer, the flower stamped and then circle cut with my Creative Memories circle cutters.  The Day 1 Tired sentiment is a set of rub-on letters from the stash applied to a corner piece of patterned paper from the Maggie Holmes Signature Series.  The flags at the top are scraps from the stash.  The two little die cuts are pieces of my new Heartfelt Creations Ornamental Add On dies.  

Ooohh!  The kids are so young....  I'm linking this project up with the Use It Tuesday Challenge #64- Use Two Hoarded Items.  You'll see how I used a hoarded stamp, some scraps for the flags, some really old rub-ons, and pictures printed in 2009.  Do the pictures count? :)