Yes, I still scrapbook… see. Once this whole non-functioning gallery thing gets sorted I may just get some layouts up again. This was another just in case photo… the parcel still hasn’t arrived. :(

I just registered for Library of Memories by Stacy Julian over at Big Picture Scrapbooking. I’ve only been waiting to take this class for a year now (I found out about it, oh, a week after registration ended last year).

I’m really excited to take this class as I really like Stacy’s approach to scrapbooking and, quite frankly, I’ve heard a lot of rave reviews about the class. The only unfortunate thing is that until we get the gallery for this blog fixed (please read until my husband writes a new blog interface for me) I won’t be able to post my layouts unless I start sneaking them into the images like I’m currently doing with my photos. Unfortunately, this will inevitably cause twice the amount of work in the long run so just bare with me. Right now I’d rather the boy be finishing his PhD which is this close to being done. We are completely redesigning the gallery layout, so it may just be worth the wait. ;)

Last time we were in Canada we spent a day wandering around the Botanical gardens of Montreal. They have quite an array of gardens including several large glasshouses and thematic gardens which include chinese, japanese, aboriginal and alpine gardens. This is an overview of our day:

I’m quite happy about this layout as I managed to fit quite a number of photos on it, used up some old KI Memories papers and remembered to leave space for the ticket stubs (because we have quite a pile of these things starting to accumulate and they really need to find their home in our albums).

I had lots of fun scrapping this layout. :)

We actually scanned the scans and had them printed on photo paper so we don’t have to worry about them getting damaged and so we’ll always have a digital copy available. Besides, it allowed me to enlarge them slightly.

It was actually the journalling pocket that dictated the colour scheme… I really wanted to use it so I could write a note to baby inside. :)

I thought it was high time I did a layout about my love of hiking. This was the result. The photo was taken a couple of years ago in the Lake Distric on a hike I really loved (the lovely weather helped).

Had a bit of fun stamping on a transparency and doing some painting on this…. I was trying to use up some of my older supplies. The ‘I’ is a lil Davis chipboard letter I painted. I can’t believe how much the paint did to make it look completely different. Good to note…. if you want a different look, add paint!

This will actually be the first page (for now) of my pregnancy album because it just seems fitting.

Because I need another album on the go… at least this will be a very finite album. :)

I really wanted to do a pregnancy album, not necessarily to document everything week by week (because I’m not that organzined) but just the random highlights and things I want to remember. And really, every pregnancy album needs a pee stick layout. ;)

Had some fun with some of the Piggy Tales products. This is from there Little Red Riding Hood line, which I loved to no end but the colours were not quite what I usually scrap with, so I was delighted when they seemed to work for these photos. Photos themselves are from Parc Monceau in on the outskirts of Paris which we found most delightful.

I’m always delighted when the design team at Scrap That Moment get to work with the products from the folks at SEI as they are so much fun. I think this is one of my favourite collections… although Granny’s Kitchen is still in the running. This collection is the Such a Boy collection, and here are some of my layouts using it:

We’ll be loading up our layouts all week, so please stop by the SEI sponsor gallery on STM to see what the other girls have done.

I posted a layout of the exterior of Warkworth Castle the other day, so I figured I should probably get the interior photos scrapped too. Nice simple layout… just the way I like them. :)