1-2-3... Cheese!

I'm still practicing on multipic pages! This one, however; has a lot of bulk from my homemade flowers. It is of my younger sister, Catherine, and brother, Eric, in Tombstone on a family outing.

Tombstone Arizona
Pop. 1,504 · Elev. 4,540'

Allen Street 2008

"The Town too Tough to Die," Tombstone was perhaps the most renowned of Arizona's old mining camps. When Ed Schieffelin (SHEF·e·lin) came to Camp Huachuca (hwah·CHEW·kuh) with a party of soldiers and left the fort to prospect, his comrades told him that he'd find his tombstone rather than silver. Thus, in 1877 Schieffelin named his first claim the Tombstone, and rumors of rich strikes made a boomtown of the settlement that adopted this name.

Products:

Bazzill
cardstock - handmade water distressed blooms

PinkPaislee -Queen Bee collection
flip notes
patterned paper
trim

Quickutz
Silhouette - title

Needles Hike

These are photos that my sister sent me recently of what she described as a 2 mile hike that took she and Brooke 8 hours to hike. I'm assuming, since it was in Nov. and they are dressed in shorts, that it is in Arizona somewhere.

I am trying, for the sake of space, to do more multipic pages with less bulk. It is very hard for me and I'm not good at it, but maybe with practice!

Products:

Glitz
Vintage Love collection patterned papers

handmade water distress flowers

Martha Stewart
border punch

Quickutz
Silhouette diecuts - alphabets, swirl






Products:

Glitz
Vintage Love collection patterned papers

handmade water distressed flowers

Heidi Grace
edge destresser

Martha Stewart
border punch

Prima
felt border

Qucikutz
Silhouette - alphabets, swirl, flowers

Signo
white gel pen

wedding

#1 Dad
My DH with his daughters at Katie's wedding. I think you can see by this photo why I call him Eeyore! He is such a sweet gently man with Eeyore's pessimistic outlook that shows in his expression.

Products:

Martha Stewart
border punch

Me and My Big Ideas
puffy stickers

Quickutz
Silhouette - alphabets

Scrap Within Reach
Afternoon Tea patterned papers

Water distressed homemade flowers

Websters Pages
ribbon bloomers

Zig
black writer pen

PERFECT DAY

My step-daughter, Melissa, Maid of Honor at her sister Katie's wedding.

Products:

KaiserCraft
Hide Away collection patterned papers

Prima
blooms
pearl leaves

My Little Shoebox
overlays

Thank you so much for dropping by.

new family

My oldest son Bryant and his newly formed family Danielle and Ceairrah.

This page is a collaborative effort with the help of my dear friends Betty, who made the large pink flower and sent the swirly leaves, and Sharon, who gave me the small pink flower ribbon.

Products:

Martha Stewart
border punch

Maya Road
chipboard alphabets

Scrap Within Reach
"Afternoon Tea Collection" patterned papers and trim

"Remember This"

"Remember This" by Jackie Anderson is today’s scrapbook inspiration. Jackie says, "In August of 2007 the world watched as Crandall Canyon coal mine owner Bob Murray took news crews underground to observe the rescue effort as mine rescue teams tried desperately to save coal miners trapped more than 28,000 feet underground in one of the most televised mine disasters in history. The men who died there, both in the original collapse and the subsequent rescue effort, were co-workers of my husband, who is pictured standing at the trailhead that leads to the gravestones of the men who remain buried in the sealed off mine where he worked for nearly six years. We hiked that trail two weeks ago to visit the sacred site that was surrounded by the changing leaves of Autumn."

The butterfly on "Remember This" was hand-cut from patterned paper and the flowers are handmade. Make beautiful flowers like Jackie's by following the instructions in her tutorial, and visit her blog and gallery to see more of her wonderful scrapbook pages.

Journaling:
"Sept. 2010. 3 years after... we visitied Genwall and the grave stones of the men who died there and were never recovered."

Product list:
DCWV
- Mariposa Cardstock Stack
- Mariposa Stack

Heidi Grace
- Edge Distresser

Martha Stewart
- Oak Leaf Craft Punch
- Scallop Dot Edge Punch

Quickutz
- Silhouette (title)

Zig Writer, black

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Jackie is one of eight members of the Gone Scrapbooking Creative Team. Team members will be providing card-making and scrapbooking inspiration for readers of Examiner.com's National Scrapbook Column through July 2011.

Enjoy the Journey

These are the memories I love of my parents. Here they are putting on their rain gear on an annual family camp out of the Boulders.

I have had this page in my files for awhile and forgot about it until I was searching for something else, so I don't have the product tags. I know the papers are KaiserCraft and the flowers are Prima. The die cuts are Silhouette files.

Seek

The treasure my son Ben is seeking at the fabled El Dora-do in Colombia is not the legend gold and jewels as the bottom of the lake, but rather the approval of his girlfriend's family to marry her. Happily, they extended it very graciously and my son will marry Astrid in May.

Products:

Bo Bunny
Mama=razzi collection

Petaloo
white flowers

Heidi Grace
edge distresser