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My New Toy

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The one thing I have complained about all year is the terrible pictures my camera takes!  Do you know how hard it is to make a nice layout with crummy photos?  Well, let’s just say it is not any fun!!  So my wonderful husband searched all the Boxing Day deals and bought me a new camera.  We now have the Canon Rebel T3i and I am in love with it.  I barely know how to use it but the pictures it takes are amazing!!  I am excited to scrapbook one again now that I have some great photos to work with.  Here is a layout of a photo I took with Robyn and her Grandpa Kennedy:

Layout from One Little Bird, elements from Stampin' Up

Also, I am still giving away the free Wall Art from my previous post.  All you have to do is “Follow” my blog at the end of this post.

Our First Family Vacation

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A few weeks ago we went to Arizona for our first family vacation.  Our Dads are snowbirds and we wanted to know what Phoenix was like and why so many Canadians spend the winter down there.  After two days we were trying to figure out how we could become snowbirds!!  I think we would definitely consider a second home in Arizona when we are closer to retirement age.

Of course, I had to scrapbook our holiday pictures.  A full 26-page photobook template just came out from Stampin’ Up (part of my winnings with MDS contest) and it was perfect for this trip.  Here are a few sample pages:

This template is called “Delight in the Day” and had all the perfect colours and embellishments for a vacation photobook.   I like creating my own photobooks, but sometimes it is nice to have most of the work done for me!

Leah

Birthday Book – What a great idea!

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My latest photobook project was for a birthday gift.  They just wanted a few pages (14 pages is the smallest I can do) with pictures of the birthday girl and her friends and then everyone can sign the book.  It is like a really nice, personal birthday card and such a great gift idea.  I wish I could say this was my idea, but it was my client’s and I may be borrowing it in the future!  Here are a few sample pages from the book:

     

I bought this kit just to do this project and I love the colours in it.  It is another digital scrapbook kit from Micheline Martin called Petit Leon.

Leah

Last Summer Long Weekend

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You don’t realize how short our summer is in Edmonton until it is the Labour Day long weekend.  I noticed more leaves falling off my trees today and I am a bit apprehensive about greeting another cold, long winter.  To fight off these thoughts about snow, we went to the Devonian Botanic Gardens to spend some time in the warm sunshine and wear out the kids.  It was the perfect way to spend the last long weekend of the summer.

Project 52

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In January I started a scrapbook challenge called Project 52 which invloves creating a scrapbook page every week for a year.  I have been faithfully doing this for the last seven months and I thought I would start sharing the pages here.

This week we went to this cool dinosaur park just outside of Edmonton called Jurassic Forest. It was perfect for our little kids: not too scary, and a beautiful nature walk.  I would highly recommend it!

Leah

Flower, button, tape from The Shabby Princess, everything else Stampin Up.