Fun with Field Trips

We go on so many field trips as homeschoolers and so many of our scrapbook pages are about those places we visit.  Here are a few:

Visiting Soar Indoors for the first time was so much fun.  Alec rocked the aerial course.  I just mounted each photo on green paper, laid them on the plaid background paper and cut out the title using the Cricut. 

Our zoo visit to the zoo in the fall was lots of fun.  I used Halloween themed paper and just trimmed an inch off each side of the paper then mounted it on some green.  I put each picture on orange paper and laid them out just a bit crookedly on the background paper.  I then used some sticker embellishments about animals to complete the page.

We had free tickets to Six Flags through their Read to Succeed program and we enjoyed a fun day at the park. With all the bright colors found in the pictures I knew I wanted a bright colorful background.  I found this printed paper and through it was just perfect.  I then mounted three of the photos on red and my focal picture (meeting Shaggy and Scooby!) on blue.  I rounded the outer corners on all the red mounted photos to give them some conformity and make the blue really stand out.  I finished up the page with a sticker embellishment.

Since Ian's favorite ride was the roller coaster this year and I only had three small photos I decided to try and mimic the feel of a roller coaster.  I found a simple pattern paper and used my pencil to trace a curvy line.  I cut it with the scissors and then trimmed the photos to fit inside the curves.  I cut out the title using my Cricut and found a large roller coaster sticker to finish it off.

Linking Up With: Together on Tuesdays,

Just one!

I am so excited that I've managed to work in my craft room for two whole days in a row!  I have so many things in there that I should be doing it's hard to focus and just get things done.  

Today, I managed to get a few more pictures labeled and into albums and then worked for quite some time on just one scrapbook page.  

It's a simple page but I just LOVE how it came out.  

I typically take tons of photos and it's hard to fit them all on a page and have it still look neat.  I often use a  6 x 12" strip of paper and fold it into thirds to hold three photos but today I thought I'd use two! I used my Cricut to cut out the first letter of each word and then used my marker (with the fine line tip) to finish the words in cursive.  I used 4 brads to hold the title strip in place and used a bit of satin ribbon to make a pull tab for each photo holder. 

With them folded shut

With both flaps opened up