Finally Finished: Scrapbook for my June 2008 Road Trip

I always get really excited about scrapbooking a trip. I go and I purchase waaaaaay too many stickers, because I might get snowed in...in July, and then I wouldn't be able to go to the craft store. I then proceed to not use those stickers, and buy more at the scrapbook store when I begin the book. About three pages into the project I start getting bored. The problem is there are usually at least 40 more pages to do after that (a CONSERVATIVE estimate). I take a lot of pictures. So I keep going, even when I'm so 'over it' because I'm a finisher. Notice I didn't say I did a good job, just that it will get finished. By the end of the album the pictures are lucky if they are glued to a page, just FORGET about the title or anything fancy. Anyway, I'm waaaay behind in albums, years behind, and I didn't even start scrapbooking until I was an adult....scratch that...I'm still not sure I'm an adult....I didn't start until about 8 or so years ago. I travel too much. I take too many pictures. I have too many hobbies outside scrapbooking. I imagine I'll always be a scrapbooker despite the fact that it's just one of my hobbies. There are all these fabulous techniques now that make my head hurt. I have friends that do the most amazing things with a pair of scissors, buttons, and an ink pad. Me, I stick to stickers. I enjoy the social aspect, and I enjoy pulling out old albums...all both of my old albums ;o). SOOOO...all that to say, a year after starting this album from a trip I took almost three summers ago (I blogged all about it in June 2008)...I finished. Here are a few of the pages. There are a TON, so just sampling from each location.
-Pink-almost always the color on the first page of my albums...along with buttons, glitter, and flowers.

-This next one is a ton of pictures 'from the road.' I made them all fit on one page b/c after a week and a half of road travel....I had to be selective, and keep it to a page. The 'Road Trip' part could be an album unto itself. I also snuck some purple rhinestones on this page. I usually do stuff like this when I'm scrapbooking with Amber b/c it's drives her a little crazy. She (rightfully) thinks less is more. I think less is a bore!

-Something old...something new. I have been making little pockets to slip my brochures inside for years. I love being able to pull them out, not that I do that, but I love that I could. Something new-the 6 pictures to a page. I used to never put more than 4 on a page, but now I find, for the sake of space, some pages just need to be about a picture....go figure!

-I love...love...love my Cricut. I love cutting out titles. The rest of the page is a Hodge Podge Page. A random scatter of buttons, flowers, and paper I'm using up because it's what I felt like doing at the moment, and that pretty much is the theme to my scrapbooking. What I want to do when I feel like doing it.

-I saw these 'large pocket' ideas at this scrapbooking store in Whitesboro, Texas. I was so excited b/c I always collect things like the National Park newspaper, and brochures, and so this fit both items. Yay for clever people who share with me!

-On this next page is another something I've started doing for the sake of space....tiny books amidst the big book. I made a heading for my Hollywood page, but I've visited Hollywood four times now....so I put most of the pictures inside the little book. ( Ha, on the other page is Laura. We got together when I went to CA and she was climbing the Barnes and Noble shelf to see Oscar De La Hoya who was randomly signing books at the same place we had met up for dinner.)

-I had to include a picture of the Starlight Express we took up the coast to Seattle. You can see via the wrap around windows how great the view was...

-I have a ton of Seattle pages, but....I wanted to share the Needle page....one of my favorite stops in Seattle!