My mom, Aunt, sister-in-law and I all went to Cuba in January. It was a really fun trip, but for some reason I didn’t take as many shots as I wanted to. The weather wasn’t the greatest, the room wasn’t the nicest and while the resort was nice they were renovating a lot of it so my pictures took a back seat to me just enjoying the trip for what it was – a getaway from the everyday.
However, I had planned on doing an album for my mom this trip at our March Crop and Create event in Markham (yes they have a WHOLE weekend dedicated to scrapbooking!). I was taking Jess Fosters class and since I absolutely adore her work I really wanted to attend her class, get the goodies and start making an album from my mom’s point of view!
In our kit from the workshop came this lovely blue 6X8 album which reminded me of a clear blue sky (which we didn’t see many of – FYI). I decided to add the little camera as an embellishment even though, for me, I personally like to leave my album covers blank (except for my December Daily which begs to be embellished at all times).
I didn’t get a lot of early pics at the airport or anything because it was 4:00 in the morning and none of us were awake enough to realize where we were going and excited to be doing so. I did however get a great shot of the clouds while we were flying and of course once we landed I got a pic outside the airport or the SUNSHINE and PALM TREES! One of my favourite designers Cathy Zielske created a kit of cards just for this workshop and I was really happy because they were in blues and oranges and yellows which fit in great with the embellishments I already for this album! Here you can see in the top right, the destination card and I just added the city/country and the dates. I used some embellishments, stickers all to do with traveling!
I absolutely loved the Made With Love By card with a picture of the world. Of course with Cuba being so tiny, I used a small enamel dot (also part of our kit with colours that matched the theme) and a destination sticker to highlight the Caribbean Island. This album is all about my mom so I made sure to take lots of pictures of her of course and here is one of my favourites – of her and her twin eating Ice Cream ( mango and butterscotch) after breakfast. I added a couple of stickers here and a few enamel dots and left it as it was.
Another 4X6 card I liked from the Cathy Zielske collection was The Trip Details. I added the details here with a picture of my sister-in-law and me. Notice we are in long sleeved shirts!!!! It was quite cool some days.
I didn’t add a lot of embellishments throughout my album because that is my style – not necessarily my moms. I did a lot of journalling for her with things I remember and loved. with a few stickers strewn about and these neat little arrow clips.
Because this is a 6X8 album, some of the page protectors were a full 6X8. I didn’t have any pics of that size but I did buy postcards so I cut some bright paper to the size and glued the post cards on them. This adds a nice touch of colour plus with the post cards we got some really sunny scenes that we didn’t have in real life
You’ll see here I left a few 3X4 cards blank. I wanted my mom to have a chance to fill in her own thoughts, feelings and memories so I left about 4 spaces for her do so. I added two cute 3X4 Cathy Zielske cards on the bottom with the word TRAVEL for embellishment
I loved that there was a Trip Highs / Trip Lows card from the collection. Not every trip is perfect – ours sure wasn’t, but it was great. I added this card to a 6X8 piece I had cut for a post card on the reverse side and as it’s at the end of my album, I added the word HOME with an airplane flying us home! I used the enamel dots (I have a slight obsession with them) for each bullet point I wanted to mention.
So this is my moms album. I know I am WAY behind documenting but a lot of exciting things have been happening (more later) in my world so documentation on my blog has slid back. SORRY! More soon promise!
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