Wedding Albums and Taxes

I have been working like crazy on my wedding album for my daughter.

Its funny how projects like this make me feel. I always have to black mail myself into starting the project. I tell myself "You can't make another thing until the album is finished."  Once I start it goes rather quickly.   This sort of explains my lack of post for the last year.  I love that I get to make one for my Daughters but  it is the one thing in life that makes me sorry I have 7 daughters.  There is only one other thing that I associate these similar feelings too, I realized Sunday Morning at 2 am., and that is Taxes.  I had just finished my 6+ hour ordeal of helping the same  wedded daughter with doing her last minute taxes....last minute in my book because I always do mine in Feb.  So why do I do it?LOVE!

  If  I was making a scrapbook like a lot of creative people out there it would be a better experience.  I am really making a paper craft picture album. That is not nearly as creative a project as it should be. The girls however as very happy and thankful that  one I help them with

their taxes and two that I make them a beautiful memento for their wedding day.  Though it is such an ordeal, such is the life of a mother.  Since I last posted I have picked  out and loaded  a scrapbook in order  for 40 pages using Die Cut  With A View "Storybook" paper.  DD wedding was Shabby Chic and in Purples and off whites...it was hard to find papers to go with those colors in a shabby chic everyone else uses pinks....(sigh). This DCWV paper was the best thing I could find in the shades of purple I wanted... and had an element of telling a story which her pictures certainly have a story to tell. I also have cut and laid out 6-12X12 Cricut mats of lettering. using my Cricut, Gypsy and  the "Plantin' School Book" Font Cartridge.  I guess I have a BOOK theme going! I went on a fun trip to Michael's to pick up  some  more Xyron "X" refills.  I didn't have a back up, now I do! I actually ended up picking up two more projects to finish before the trip.  I used the "X" to mount all the lettering on the adhesive and have spent 2 evenings and afternoons adhering letters onto 22 pages of the album. The pictures show the piles as they  currently exist.

This weekend was busy with other things so today I will be attaching more lettering, hoping that job is finished today.  I was too lazy to run up the stairs to grab the good camera to have a picture to post so I grabbed my trusty iPod and took a few quick shots.
Well its time to go back to work and finish up using those letters so I can start mounting pictures and some fun embellishments the fun part, but first I should probably order the pictures...
Until Later ... Happy Stamping!