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.

Hawaii- Catching up on scrapbooking efforts

I am going to admit to feeling overwhelmed and tired.  I've volunteered for a couple different things this fall and my work has exploded on me this past week.  I know I need crafting more than ever, but I can't seem to squeeze it in like I would like.  Having said that, I am so excited about my current project.  I mentioned I'm getting caught up on some scrapbooking projects and one involves our 2008 trip to Hawaii.  I always intended to make a book and never got around to it.  When I saw the Maggie Holmes Signature Collection with a coordinating wood mini album I realized what I had been waiting for.  This collection is filled with the colors and style that I think of when I think of our trip.  Today I'm sharing the front cover.  I elected to keep it simple and use the

Polaroid fabric frame from the kit to highlight this family picture taken up in the mountains.  We'd stopped at a tourist attraction and thought the view breathtaking.  The doily was fussy cut out of one of the patterned paper from the kit.  The little swirls were die cut using my Floral Flourish and the flower cut using my Heartfelt Creations Vintage Floret.  The circle was cut with my ancient (I like saying that, it feels like I'm using my stash!) Creative Memories circle cutters.  I intend to add some fibers and ribbons to the book rings, but will wait for the finished product to do so.  I'm really pleased with the front cover.  I've a photo to take of the first page which I've already done, but haven't had the time to capture the photo.  Maybe things will ease up enough for just a little blogging.  Hope your crafting is contagious, I could use an innoculation.