Oh Baby - 1953 or 1954

Well we're back after TWO WEEKS vacation in GLORIOUS Hawaii! What a WONDERFUL vacation we had. So stay tuned for some layouts about this trip (after I get all my photos organized first!)

Meanwhile, I had a powerful urge to scrap and found some inspiration on this week's 52sketches52weeks sketch no. 39.

Here is a photo of me as a baby (not sure how old I was here but probably under a year). I tried to make everything look vintage. PP is from Making Memories (base paper), My Minds Eye (the dark pink) and Foofala (the squares). I don't remember who made the lace trim, buttons and crocheted flowers, but the other flowers are from Prima and the floss is by Anchor. I inked up everything with Tim Holtz's distressing ink (tea stain).

TFL!

Hotel Room - Venice 07

This layout is based on a sketch from The Paper Passion. It's a couple of pictures of our room at the Hotel Carlton and Grand Canal, Venice Italy. Another layout for my Italy album. I just love those beautiful flowers by Prima Marketing! The grid stamp is from JustCre8.

First Glimpse - Italy 2007

This layout was based on sketch 35 from http://www.52sketches52weeks.com/. I used an old travel paper pack from "Imagine That" and some buttons from my stash.

This was the first view of Italy we had from the plane before landing in Rome, Italy.

Bride 1984

Well I said the previous layout would be the last one of our wedding I would do for awhile but I got inspired by JustLulu and her layout from the November 08 kit (JustCre8) and did this one up.

Wedding Day 84

Yet another wedding layout (this will probably be it for awhile....) We look so YOUNG here.....sigh.....

This layout was totally scraplifted from one done by JustCaro (of JustCre8) using that fabulous November 08 kit.

Loving Hands - 1984

I guess because our 25th anniversary is coming up soon (on Tuesday) I was feeling nostalgic about our wedding day. I was looking through our wedding photos and came across this one (one of my favourites). This is the first wedding photo I have ever scrapped. I lifted JustLori's layout (from JustCre8). She did such a beautiful job on her layout. The only thing different is the way I did the title.

Look at the difference in the colour of our hands. Mine is so pale whereas DH must have gotten quite the tan that summer!

All paper is by SEI except for the base sheet which is by Jenni Bowlin.

Lip Synch - The End

This is the last page of the lip synch album. The journaling reads:

"At the end of the last act, we all gathered on the stage for one last bow. We all got a kick out of Jim's costume and the tights he wore - December 12, 2007"

This layout was scraplifted almost entirely from one done by Karishma for Sketch 17 on http://www.52sketches52weeks.com/ except for the title. All paper is DCWV - Rockstar (with some added brads and stickles).