2012 wedding (scrap pages)

Scrapping wedding photos has always been touchy for me.  Will I be able to do them justice, will I ruin one getting it ready, will I regret gluing them down? With the digital age, I am totally getting over all but the first one.  I guess with the streak I have been on lately, I am pretty much even getting over the first one too.  Another photo heavy post ahead!

This page totally fell together with the 'leftovers' from the other pages.  I loooooooved this photo from their photographer but didn't get it worked in anywhere else, I knew I wanted to use their wedding ceremony programs and there was this extra napkin. They all looked great on that black dictionary type paper and there was that strip of camo fabric laying on my desk from Tim's Christmas gift 2013 that went perfect with their theme so the opening page was created last but its one of my faves!

The rehearsal night, not a lot to document but document I did.  the photo of the couple & minister flips up to reveal a photo of the shredded beef we served with the journaling the photo and the details of the rehearsal evening attached to the page.

I had a LOT of prep photos as I had been invited to hang out with them for the morning, but I narrowed it down to these 6 to make a giant collage for the page.  I love the outcome. 

some more pre-ceremony pics I took & scrapped before I thought to print some from the photographer's disc.

 Photographer's photos on the left, mine on the right. I needed to scrap each of these but they didn't all need their own page, so frustrated at the end of a session I threw them in a pile on that dark brown paper. The next session, I found them all there & really liked them all together on it & a page was created.

Photographer's photos.  I shared a progress photo of this page a few posts back.  I am still extremely proud of this one. 

 Photographer's photos. I created the collage in the middle in Picasa.

 Photographer's photos of the Ceremony.

 Photographer's photos.  Family photos with lots of decorating.

 My photos on the left, Photographer's photo on the right.
These photos are the same page, one is with the flip flap in the close position the other is with it open. (click to enlarge)

Photographer's photos, another collage created in Picasa.

  My photos. My second fave page of this chapter! 

  Photographer's photos as the wedding party entered the reception hall.  They have an amazing group of friends that step up when they are needed & offer the shirts off their backs. Absolutely heartwarming to witness this group of 'kids' become adults. 

 my photos.  Their first dance as husband & wife & their last dance of the evening.
The page on the left is glittered paper *gasp* I can't say I never use glitter now, but most of it is covered, holding it together. the one of the right is another fave! the background paper, the acrylic overlay w/the bead stickers on top. super simple, yet elegant.


And that my friends, is my little brother's wedding chapter.  After that, I completed a Labor Day Weekend chapter but not sure I will share all of them or if I will just highlight my faves.  What do you think? want to see all 6-10 pages or just a couple? None of them are photographed at this point so whatever you want will be done.  :)

5 on Friday: Scrap news

Remember yesterday, I talked about having completed a wedding chapter? Well, here are the final pages of that chapter & they are some of my favorites EVER. Sorry the photos aren't very good, I was holding the phone over my head over the layout on my desk, with no intentions of ever sharing them past an email share, I wasn't being very particular, I will change that starting NOW. 

1. This one took me out of my box w/the bundle of tulle, a corsage pin holding the 'B' on it & the shaped paper. Actually, I don't think this is the photo of the final product, I think this was a spot I was stuck on, but you get the idea for now. By far, one of my prettiest pages.

2. These 3 photos could have easily held their own layout but I was ready to wrap up the chapter so I put them all on one & plan to do some heavy journaling for each & include it in a flip flap when the page is in an album. So much old stuff here paired with Cricut cuts and matting, nothing spectacular but I am especially happy with it.

3. Yikes, this one blurry w/a capital B--so sorry!!  I love this one as it highlights the friendship they have w/their group. lots of Cricut die cuts, old stickers and paper.  I think this is the page I finished off those plastic coated heart clips I have been using sparingly for 10 years :)

 

4. The first dance + mixed drinks on an empty tummy+ the adrenaline wearing off= emotional bride & I needed to capture it.  More really old stuff used AND I used GLITTER paper as the background. Anyone who has scrapped with me knows my serious aversion to anything glittery, but this was the perfect paper to use on these photos, so I went delicately & yet, still ended up coated in glitter myself. YACK! The hearts w/the initials on them are CTMH, the last 2 square clips, the last of the plastic slides in that color & more Cricut cuts. 

5. Not having been to Hobby Lobby in several months, I treated myself with some birthday money last weekend.  I was on the hunt for fun things to use in my mini album showcasing my surprise 40th birthday party last month.  The pile of Gemstones to the left are for my Grandma to use on her heritage pages & were all half off, she loves the bling! The envies are to finish mailing my thank you notes.  The purple letters & trims  and the metal 'K' are for the mini.  The white thickers are in my favorite font, I just wish I could find them in other colors.  The white thread is crochet thread I have seen a few girls using on YouTube videos to tie up their buttons & I needed it.  An X adhesive refill, 3 shaped clips (you know, because I finished off a few others last week..) that were on sale; boat anchors in red & blue, dog bones in silver & brown, arrows in pink & teal.  3 spools of ribbon; pink & purple for the mini album & the pink zebra for my cousin's graduation reception pages.  That leaves the Studio Calico wooden letters that I ab.so.lute.ly. love! 

I am so very grateful for my renewed energy for scrapping.  I have been booking through some serious pages the past year.  I have a crop next weekend (the 14th) that I plan to do my mini album at and then my husband is going on a hunting trip the following weekend (19th-22nd) so I plan to move the piles of pages from the scraproom closet to the dining table to see how many I can get into sleeves & their forever appropriate albums.  So there are a couple more scrappy posts coming this month! 

weekend recap

(mostly for my journaling sake)

this year's birthday weekend had high hopes but got off to a rough start.  Mom, Aunt Sue & I were planning to attend a scrap retreat in the big city Saturday-Sunday but it got cancelled due to an emergency surgery so we thought we'd still go on Saturday morning & do some shopping, but then thanks to a winter storm mid-week & reports of horrible street conditions combined w/a furnase break down we skipped that too.   It all worked out in the end as I ended Friday evening w/a migraine so painful I was seeing disco balls when I closed my eyes & then spent Saturday recovering from it+all the meds I had taken trying to fight it.  But thankfully Sunday worked out much better!!  I had an 11 o'clock date w/mom at her house for some snacks & scrapping :) I was fired up! got there & found that Jeff had come to town to help Grandpa clean snowy walks in town & so the rest of the family had tagged along! YAY!!!!!!!! I got to spend time w/Bethany & the kids as well as Mom while the guys were out working.  then Grandma brought down some mac n cheese for lunch YUMMMMMM  so finally, @1:30 we pulled out the tables & our scrapping supplies & got to work :)  having to close up shop @5 I was only able to accomplish 2 pages but it was a great day overall!! :)

I came home to homemade lasagna in the oven & a cake w/PURPLE frosting on the counter! YAY!! HE'S SO GOOD!! the lasagna was especially awesome knowing it had food coop herbed lasagna noodles, venison/pork mix meat & home canned tomatoes in it!  Belly full, I headed off to my scrap room to unpack & ended up working on another page! I am about done w/the boating weekend for August 2009! sheesh I take alot of photos in a weekend ;) 

right now

enjoying the brightness of the snow.  I am always amazed at how much better I feel about the cold when there is snow on the ground, especially when the sun is shining off of it.

planning shopping trip with my mom & aunt for Saturday And a Valentine's overnight outing.

thrilled to realize Summer is closer.

celebrating the bond of my brother & his son.

resisting drinking a whole pot of coffee today.

preparing for a downsizing & move-even if it is 5 years away, every little bit helps.

making so much from scratch in January, planning to keep it up for February.

preparing the childcare for an itty bitty to start in less than 4 weeks-- eek!

living in the present is so very soothing.

ordering my neices their first ever pieces from Lisa Leonard Designs.

eating so much comfort food this winter.

loving all the crockpot recipes I am making; refried beans, chicken/beef bone broth, beef/chicken & noodles, apple crisp.

sleeping 4 in the bed is surprisingly comfortable.

Gratitude November 9

Family! my brothers & wives they have chosen for me to get to be sisters to, & those 6 little hearts!

a wedding

One month ago today, June 23, 2012 my baby brother got married to a wonderful woman who is from a terrific family that we are so thankful for!! I had Ryder out giving him a bottle during the ceremony but here is their vows during rehearsal ;)

 

K getting her make up done

M checking out her make up

beautiful flowers!

first dance, check out the teary eyes!!  Love you guys!!!

the aunts that tended the cake table

Gma J w/the Arispe Riemenschneiders

Aunt S w/her children

get it girl!!

those dresses were made for spinning!!

and the last dance of the night. 2 very happy people!

we all missed seeing Philip but comforted each other in knowing that he wasn't missing a thing, he was right there laughing, smiling, dancing right along w/us!

More than 5 on Friday

So the story goes that I caught the chicken pox in a bounce house the summer before my Kindergarten year, so I have forever been terrified/paranoid of bounce houses.... until last Sunday when we were invited to participate in a fun day @ Arispe put on by the Afton Lions in honor of Philip's family.  I thought it was a fundraiser, come to find out it was just 'hey, lets set up the inflatable & feed everyone who wants to come... so we went! here are a couple of shots Bethany caught of Jeff & I on it w/her phone..

and here are the the ones I cuaght on my camera...Big O (Owen):

 Bethany & Ronnie:

Brenda:

 The 3 Arispe Riemenschneiders:

Ryder's first time down:

so the moral to this post: no matter how much of a repectable adult you are, you MUST partake in the fun of an inflatable slide ASAP!!!!!!! Honestly, I cannot wait to do it AGAIN!!!   :)

have a FUN weekend!!!