To the right I have a close up of my net; I tied this myself people! 

I know I'm a little nuts...

I took just regular pieces of twine, cut them my desired length and got a knottin'


It took forever but I am very pleased with the end look!




To the right [bottom] I have a close up of my charms. 

The carriage I cut out from my scrapbook paper and the little dress I actually used from a really old bracelet. 

Side note: If you have old charms, material, textures etc. keep it in your scrapbooking area.  I have used so much stuff that most would think was junk. 

These little things add so much life to your page and cost $0.00!
This one is just a single page instead of a spread.

My neice Taiz is so cute! She makes this page so much better!

Favorites:

1. ScrapQueens cricket sign

2. Dragon sticker

3. Crown on "scrap" word

4. The net

5. Hanging charms 





 
Favorites:

1. "ZOO"; The cut out, the pictures behind the "o"s, and the twine wrapped around.
2. Green burlap
3. Adorable animal pop up stickers
4. Bee "flying" through page with dashes
 


I had a lot of fun incorporating fish, fishing line, hooks etc. in this page.

Who new fish could be so artist inspiring!


Favorites:

1. Spelling "love" with the conjoining fish line made of string from Jake's pole to mine.

2. Using the gold wire to bend into fish hooks.

3. The white pen on the blue & brown background.

4. Making large fish for page 2 hooked

5. Cutting out image of me sitting on the bottom of page 1.


 
Favorites:

1. Red flags throughout spread
2. Incuded conference tickets
3. Buttons
4. Color scheme
 
Page 1
Page 2


Favorite details:

1. Photo "stripes" page 1, detail to left.

2. Ribbion trio on page 1, detail to left

3. Hearts strung together on page 1, detail to left [bottom]

4. Picture layout on page 2; group picture, zoomed kissing pictures & another similar group picture

5. Textured clusters of flowers, stickers, paper etc. on both papers.
 
Page 1
Page 2
Favorite details:

1. Gluing rope to form the "girl"
2. The "hinges" cut out from the cricket to connect pictures [page 1], and picture & writing [page 2].
3. Cowboy stick sitting on the "C"
4. Flowers on foam to "pop" out
5. The green burlap
 
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Page 2
Favorites:

1. Using the poster I got from the game for the "Goooal!" [p. 1], team crest [p. 1] and team picture [p. 2].
I love incorporating things I get from actual events on the page. It always brings different textures and fonder memories

2. Use of stapler on my letter to attach the tafita. Also the staples to attach my writing paper.

3. Foam to pop out some of my lettering, "REAL" [p.1] and "Jacob" [p. 2]

4. Ha ha to this day I still manage to have something misspelled on my pages!
Oh well, something for the kiddies to laugh at I guess...or something for Jake to laugh at. Stinker.
 
Can I just say I have an adorable husband?
Just look at this cutie!

For this page I wanted to have somewhat of a manly color scheme and feel...

okay it didn't turn out too overly manly...

I really liked the cork board paper.
I used to to mimick a message board; I have a clip board holding up my "polorid" picture and "pins" to hold up my writing strips.        

I used ribbon, lace, a metal spiral and a bear stamp (colored with color pencil) for details [right]                                                                                                                        
 
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Page 2
This page is one of my favorites. 
I love, love, love the color scheme.

For my red, blue and tan stripes I used scraps. I love scraps. 
I have a lot of love today I guess...

I only had one "light blue whale" paper but I wanted to use it on both pages (to tie them together). 

Dilema?
No...

I cut off the bottom 3 inches and used the main portion on page 1. 
The extra 3 inches I turned vertical for the right side of page 2.

The shells were cut with the cricket. 

I tied the net [bottom of page 2] together using thick white string. 

I hand cut the "tags" from page 2 and used a hole punch for the circle. 
I cut out one of the whales (from my paper), added some hand cut "waves and "14" (# of lifeguards) to the first tag. 
For the second tag I wrote the name of our pool and the "Summer '10."

I always write a date on my pages; no use documenting memories if you can't remember when they are from! :)


 
To honor of the fact that Summer has finally made it to Utah..."knock on wood" I decided that I needed to post a Summer themed scrapbook page.

I chose a somewhat calm blue background page, light blue waves.

3 fun patterned pages were cut into thick stripes [pic above]; rainbow striped [far left], summer script [middle] and purple polka dots [far right].

I found these cute foam beach stickers [top right pic] from Archivers at the Provo Town Center Mall. I glued pieces of thick white string between them to "connect".

For the sun's middle I chose a shimmery orange paper. The "summer" letters, cut with the cricket, and the sun beams were cut from the same matte orange paper.

I used foam puffs to make the "summer" stand out. I also stuck another piece of white string under the "U" where the oranges were blending together.
I also used a white gel pen around the entire page; to create "stitching" around the sun, to frame Jake kissing me and to "stitch" around my labels.