100 Layouts #20 - Disneyland 7/2000 (complete 1/17/06)
Now Playing: Evanescence
Topic: Travel

Here's another layout for Jesse's album, made with photos he took with his camera. He got a Kodak 110 for his 10th birthday and made good use of it for several years. Anyway, this is Disneyland, if you couldn't tell.

 

Another pretty simple layout, but it'll preserve his pictures so he can enjoy them for years. Pictures from childhood are precious, and shouldn't be just hidden away in a box somewhere. I'm fortunate enough to have two CDs my dad gave me of slides and photos he scanned from when I was a kid (and even before - there are pictures from my mom's childhood too!), and he just found another box of photos and is scanning those. I'll get them for Christmas.
Patterned paper: Provo Craft; Mickey Mouse cutouts: Paper Pizzazz, Hot Off the Press; font: Walt Disney Script v4.1

100 layouts #47 - Road Trip (completed 5/18/06)
Mood:  lazy
Now Playing: washing machine
Topic: Travel
Finally finished this, three weeks after my last layout.

Journaling: "We’re off on our grand adventure to the Grand Canyon! The kids were so excited about going on an overnight road trip, it was like a party in the school parking lot. Except the buses showed up over half an hour late – no one had told them how to find the school. Mrs. W. and Mrs. G. finally had to drive over to them (parked 4 miles away) and lead them to the school. Once the buses got there, we boarded (each class on its own bus), settled in with pillows and backpacks and gameboys and books and snacks and a movie on the bus DVD player, and off we went! Aaron and I sat by our field trip buddies, Austin and Caleb. We stopped in Phoenix around midnight to change drivers and pick up our tour guides, Miss Jenny and Miss Camille, and headed to the north country. Even though the lights got turned off north of Phoenix, not much sleeping got done – not by the adults, anyway. We changed drivers again in Flagstaff around 4 in the morning, and arrived at the Canyon at dawn, sleepy and stiff and cold but excited to be there! 12-13 April 2006"

First of the Grand Canyon trip layouts. This field trip was such a big deal I decided not to try to squeeze everything into one layout. Plus I have too many great pictures!

For this layout I chose a black background, to highlight the excitement of leaving late in the evening on an overnight field trip. When you're 10 years old, this is a really huge thing. Also, it makes those excited little faces pop right out of the page. I'm kind of proud of the border I came up with, with road sign dingbats (they read: Road Trip, I really gotta GO, Next rest area 317 miles, Are we there yet?, Go to sleep, 99 bottles of beer), and I got to use my reproduction vintage Grand Canyon postcard.

Materials: Patterned paper - Doodlebug Design; reproduction Grand Canyon postcard - DMD (I think; in a kit of travel ephemera); "road trip" sticker - Art Warehouse, Creative Imaginations; "road trip" dingbats - CK Family Trip; definition stickers - Colorbok; computer font - CK Typist; eyelets - Making Memories.

Used up: last scrap of my tan, black and red striped Doodlebug paper (sob), a bunch of black eyelets.

I hope the next layout doesn't take me three weeks.

EDIT: I hate when I do this. The dates on this layout should be 11-12 April.