I kept the page pretty simple, but did use a fun laser cut I got at the Maui scrapbook store Island Paperie. The title is a long ago bought set of stickers. I thought it was appropriate. :)
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Showing posts with label Hawaii 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hawaii 2011. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Hawaii Book, Post 5
This page is about our adventures along the northern part of Maui. We had some time to kill before the luau that evening so we drove up along the shore. It was really cool to view the rain in the distance and the resulting rainbows over the water, being blown away with the wind (very windy on that part of the island), and the homegrown pineapple stands. We saw some awesome views of the island geography too.
I kept the page pretty simple, but did use a fun laser cut I got at the Maui scrapbook store Island Paperie. The title is a long ago bought set of stickers. I thought it was appropriate. :)
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I kept the page pretty simple, but did use a fun laser cut I got at the Maui scrapbook store Island Paperie. The title is a long ago bought set of stickers. I thought it was appropriate. :)
Thanks for stopping by!
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Hawaii Book, Post 4
Here's another fun Hawaii book page complete. This one is about our time at the luau that we went to one of our first days in Maui. We missed on doing this type of activity the first time to Hawaii and I didn't want to miss out on it this time. It's just one of those things you have to do, you know?
The show and food was pretty good. I also liked the leis of course...my favorite flower. :) We took a picture with our server who was also in the show as a drummer (the bottom picture). And while putting this photo together I noticed there was a lot of pictures of our 4-person group individually, but with limited space and wanting to capturing the essence of the luau, I decided instead to include a shot of the roasting pig. HAHA! The layer below the page is the program from the night. I thought it doubled as a good accent piece quite well too. The stamp border I used is another Island Paperie stamp.
More to come!
The show and food was pretty good. I also liked the leis of course...my favorite flower. :) We took a picture with our server who was also in the show as a drummer (the bottom picture). And while putting this photo together I noticed there was a lot of pictures of our 4-person group individually, but with limited space and wanting to capturing the essence of the luau, I decided instead to include a shot of the roasting pig. HAHA! The layer below the page is the program from the night. I thought it doubled as a good accent piece quite well too. The stamp border I used is another Island Paperie stamp.
More to come!
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Hawaii Book, Post 3
Here's just a fun little page I've done for the Hawaii book. This one is about our adventure playing mini golf. We passed this mini golf place every time that we went from the middle of the island to our hotel, so we knew that at one point we'd be stopping here for a round. Unfortunately we didn't know the hours of the place before we did finally stop and our round of golf was kinda crazy to try and get 18 holes in about 40 minutes, but it was still fun, and maybe that was just part of the challenge too.
I employed a fun circle stamp from Waltzingmouse Stamps' Faux Fun Circles set as my background. I've also had that "Good Times" rub on forever, and I figured a page like this was as good as any to use it!
I employed a fun circle stamp from Waltzingmouse Stamps' Faux Fun Circles set as my background. I've also had that "Good Times" rub on forever, and I figured a page like this was as good as any to use it!
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Hawaii Book, Post 2
I'm back with another Hawaii book page that I finished. This one was super fun to do because it consists of the underwater camera pictures that we took on our snorkeling day. Maui offers great snorkeling just off of the beaches right by the hotels even. We took advantage of this one of the days with our snorkel gear in tow.
I used some embellishments my friend got me cause she knew I would be scrapping this trip. Isn't that super nice of her? I then went with the orange and blue theme and found some letters that went perfectly, in my opinion. And if you notice there's some Waltzingmouse Stamps background stamping going on. That's the Free Spirit circles background stamp. I think it has a tendency to look like bubbles too, so I thought it fit in well to use for this page. Oh, and see those three circle pictures? Those are real fishes that we caught on film! I had to be sure to include them!
Just for anyone curious about snorkeling in Hawaii...when we went to Hawaii the first time in 2009 we rented gear and went snorkeling too on Oahu. The bay that we were in was awesome to snorkel in, but our gear was not the best. This time in Maui we researched snorkel gear a bit and went with a company that we could rent it for the entire week. These places had really cheap to slightly better stuff to choose from. We all went with the sets that allowed for not getting water up the air tube. Thus, if waves were hitting us or we went just a bit too far underwater, we weren't getting a mouth full of salt water, just no air. I was a little skeptical about snorkeling this time since I didn't have the greatest luck with it last time, but I think the gear made a big difference! So, when in doubt, go for the slightly better gear and you'll have a much more enjoyable time. :)
I used some embellishments my friend got me cause she knew I would be scrapping this trip. Isn't that super nice of her? I then went with the orange and blue theme and found some letters that went perfectly, in my opinion. And if you notice there's some Waltzingmouse Stamps background stamping going on. That's the Free Spirit circles background stamp. I think it has a tendency to look like bubbles too, so I thought it fit in well to use for this page. Oh, and see those three circle pictures? Those are real fishes that we caught on film! I had to be sure to include them!
Just for anyone curious about snorkeling in Hawaii...when we went to Hawaii the first time in 2009 we rented gear and went snorkeling too on Oahu. The bay that we were in was awesome to snorkel in, but our gear was not the best. This time in Maui we researched snorkel gear a bit and went with a company that we could rent it for the entire week. These places had really cheap to slightly better stuff to choose from. We all went with the sets that allowed for not getting water up the air tube. Thus, if waves were hitting us or we went just a bit too far underwater, we weren't getting a mouth full of salt water, just no air. I was a little skeptical about snorkeling this time since I didn't have the greatest luck with it last time, but I think the gear made a big difference! So, when in doubt, go for the slightly better gear and you'll have a much more enjoyable time. :)
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Hawaii Book, Post 1
After successfully finishing the general book pages of 2009, DH has directed my attention to the January 2011 trip we took to Maui as my next project. I usually do vacations/trips that have a lot of photos in separate mini scrapbooks in order to use a bit more of these photos than what could possibly be done in a few 12x12 layouts included in the general books I do. I also like that these mini books offer a great opportunity to use techniques, embellishments, and papers that I don't normally use.
For this 2011 Hawaii book though, I am moving away from my usual SEI green 8x8 books. Instead, while in Maui I found these great 4x6 photo holder albums that I thought would make a great, unique scrapbook instead. It diverts from the usual size of typical scrapbook pages (these are 9.5x6) and there aren't page protectors, but even with only one page done so far, I'm enjoying this different process already.
I found that the 9.5x6 requirement comes from the spacing available when considering using the entire space allotted for two 4x6's on the page. The book will limit me to only 20 pages for the entire book, but that just means only the best will be able to be included!
And here's my first page. It's centered around the trip we took to see the Iao Needle in the Iao Valley nestled in the Maui Mountains. The "hike" to see the needle wasn't that difficult but luckily there were some off-the-beaten-path trails around for a little more adventure (seen at the start with the picture of our one friend by the "stay on the trail" signs and also the middle picture). Unfortunately, we didn't know how far this trail continued because it started getting pretty steep after awhile. A good place to go for a nice view in Maui. The valley is quite impressive.
On the more crafty technical side, I decided such a book required distressed edges for the pages. And DH even pointed out that my pictures could go to the edge because there was the border of the page itself to consider too (see, isn't he so helpful?). And faintly, you'll notice I took another stab at making my own patterned paper. The green has been stamped with a Hawaiian border stamp (exclusive to Island Paperie in Hawaii...they make their own stamps!) in green itself. I alternated the orientation of the stamp for some difference. A ribbon from Target and trusty Thickers finish the layout.
For this 2011 Hawaii book though, I am moving away from my usual SEI green 8x8 books. Instead, while in Maui I found these great 4x6 photo holder albums that I thought would make a great, unique scrapbook instead. It diverts from the usual size of typical scrapbook pages (these are 9.5x6) and there aren't page protectors, but even with only one page done so far, I'm enjoying this different process already.
I found that the 9.5x6 requirement comes from the spacing available when considering using the entire space allotted for two 4x6's on the page. The book will limit me to only 20 pages for the entire book, but that just means only the best will be able to be included!
And here's my first page. It's centered around the trip we took to see the Iao Needle in the Iao Valley nestled in the Maui Mountains. The "hike" to see the needle wasn't that difficult but luckily there were some off-the-beaten-path trails around for a little more adventure (seen at the start with the picture of our one friend by the "stay on the trail" signs and also the middle picture). Unfortunately, we didn't know how far this trail continued because it started getting pretty steep after awhile. A good place to go for a nice view in Maui. The valley is quite impressive.
On the more crafty technical side, I decided such a book required distressed edges for the pages. And DH even pointed out that my pictures could go to the edge because there was the border of the page itself to consider too (see, isn't he so helpful?). And faintly, you'll notice I took another stab at making my own patterned paper. The green has been stamped with a Hawaiian border stamp (exclusive to Island Paperie in Hawaii...they make their own stamps!) in green itself. I alternated the orientation of the stamp for some difference. A ribbon from Target and trusty Thickers finish the layout.
