More Scrap booking

Can you tell I've been busy!  It's kind of funny that I've been scrap booking so much because, if you know our situation, nearly everything we have is in boxes while we figure out our life, and so all our scrapbooks are packed away.  I have a huge stack of pages complete and don't have my albums to put them in.  Anyways.....more tips....

See the little star accents I added to make my main picture of cutie pie Rex stand out.  I frequently embellish photos with accents and journaling.  Now, I do not recommend doing this to the 1920's picture of your great-grandmother (if you want to embellish a vintage photo, take it to a copy store and have a nice color copy made for you to embellish and preserve your original oldie).  In today's world where we can store 2000 pictures on a cd and print whatever we want from our home computer in 2 minutes.  I say go ahead and doodle, glue, alter, sand, punch, etc, etc.

Journaling strips are a great way to get your journaling to pop on a page.  I also like word stickers.  Sometimes a few words say more than I ever could in a paragraph.  I love the sticker that says "cooties" because it perfectly describes how my 8 year old feels about all girls, including his mother.




You who scrapbook with me know I like to k.i.s.s (keep it simple stupid), but sometimes I too like to go a little crazy.  For this adorable picture of Kennedy and Bailey, I had to make it as girly and fru-fru as possible.  I just kept adding on until I felt it looked right.  So, break out of your box and have a little fun sometimes. 

(Maybe sometime, I'll take the time to figure out why my pictures keep turning themselves sideways when I post them to this blog...)

Enjoy!!