Welcome back to part 2 of Scrapbooking an Album.
I have finished the last 9 pages of the Album and completed the story from start to finish, so below are the final pages. Scrapbooking is not just about putting photo's on a paper to have somewhere to put them.
It's about recording and writting down your memories, for yourself or to share. It's about recording your personal history and a record of your life for generations to come.
So lets continue on this journey and the album.
One of the most memorible things about my first trip to melbourne last
year was the view from our 17th Floor apartment balcony of the Grande Vue
short stay apartments. We could see all of melbourne. Looking at the
photo's below, one might ask why would you scrapbook dark and dreary
photo's ? However, in this case i feel it necessary, because if you have ever been to Melbourne you would know that it always rains and its weather is shocking in winter. By all reports on the news, the day we got there had been the coldest, wettest day in 11 years. I feel the photos reflect perfectly the wet weather and conditions.
The things you really see when you have a camera. Catching a picture of traffic heading into Melbourne CBD at 7am. Oh boy glad i was just visiting. The Tea House in Melbourne, i was told is the only remaining historcial building standing and remaining in tact and is now protected by the historical society. So, if you have some dark dreary photo's don't be afraid to scrap book them, because they still tell the reader a lot.
Record the things that are common and not so common. Melbourne are reknown for their yellow cabs, and i think sydney could learn a lot from them. To look at a photo of yellow cabs full of people lined up in traffic, you would probably on its own think, how boring, but putting it into context of the album, gives it meaning and a purpose. Of course, you always will have your building shots and views.
Despite the weather at 7am and the cloudy dark grey photos, hot air balloons, came up through the buildings, now until coming across these photos, i had forgotten all about that part of my trip. It was spectacular to see, although the pictures don't depict a light happy and cheery shot. If i didnt scrapbook them, i would have again forgotten about this event. So dont be afraid to scrap a dreary photo if its significant. Just add colour and brightness to it.
The 3rd night we were there we, went to Gordon Ramsey's only restaurant in Australia
called Maze. Gordon Ramsey has his own show called Kitchen Nightmares
and as a chef, has a reputation for having a fowl mouth.
Afterwards we called into the Crown Casino on the way back to the apartment.
These next 4 pages show the events of that night.
Scrapbooking, doesnt always have to be about nice and serious photos, add some quirkiness, and cheeky
scrapbooking. Bring a giggle or an awe to your pages.
Below i have incorporated some humor into them. While the humor may not be clear to everyone, those that do know of gordon ramsey are sure to get a smile on their face.
This page is about the casino, and at the time i wasn't a scrapbooker and Sue had told me to scrap my ticket, i thought she meant throw it in the bin, lol as my winnings was an astounding $0.36 cents lol. Most leaving the casino would not brag or want anyone to know about it, unless there were a few zero's on the end. It was part of our trip and i included it to act as an embellishment to the page, So keep even the little things at the time incase you need to add an extra embellishment that will help remind you of it.
Below are pages 16 & 17, and they are about our outing to Gordon Ramsey's Maze restaurant.
The five of us dined on fine french cuisene and seven courses of them. Mind you anyone who has dined
on french cuisene knows they are traditionally small meals, however at Maze, they are even smaller
being only Sample dishes. WARNING !!!! DON'T GO IF YOUR HUNGRY.
Personally for me, i would have much preferred to have a lobster at the casino,
it would have been slightly cheaper and i would have enjoyed it more. So, for many reasons, you scrap a photo, i chose to scrap this page because it was part of the trip, i was with my friends and i certainly can say i ate at Gordon Ramsey's only Australian Restaurant. Using Designer series paper to embellish the back ground i tore the paper around the edges to try to replicate the maze logo and sponged some of the paper and then distressed the edges.
Never be afraid to embellish your pages with your thoughts, the photo's and the memories are yours and its all about you, so scrap and journal it. The first thing that came to
my mind about going there was Gordon Ramsey and other than his cooking he is well known for his profanities, so i scrapped it. Bringing back the light side of this page, i have a warped sense of humour and i like my food, so incorporated it into my pages is a must. My thoughts were, is that it, some crumbs on a plate, oh boy, no wonder he swears, he cant cook enough food to fill the plate hahaha.
Now if your horrified or laughing with me at the moment, always remember its your journey, your thoughts and your photo's on the page and these are mine. Of course, Maze is certainly not the venue to use such words, and i give you my word that i didnt.
Pages 18 & 19 are about the final night of our stay and the final event of the convention.
We had a banquet dinner and an awards ceremony.
So the pages explains, about where i was, the people i was with and what we ate.
To the left of the page, is the menu explainging the 3 courses we ate and the photos show how
in awe of the food we were, it was gorgeous and at $75.00 a head, beat Gordon Ramseys Maze restaurant hands down. Accentinig and embellishing this page, came down to choosing colours. I picked up the gorgeous colours from Stampin' Up colour collections which were printed on the menu, to help me to choose the right colours and to create embellishments with my heart punch to emulate the hearts on the menu.
After the banquet was the awards ceremony. My 19th Page is a photo of my name up on the screen and the award i received. The award was the recognition of 18 months of hard work. This was a very significant part of the reason we all were there other than the experience and trip to melbourne, so it needed to be journalled and memorialised for ever etched in my memories. So if i never receive another award as long as i live, i will always have this one and will always have this page to show for it. The embellishments are die cut flowers made with the big shot and Stampin Up fun flowers bigz die. Sponged tipped the edges and textured impressioned them with petals a plenty embossing folder and spritzed them with water and crushed them to give them the look they have to accent the page.
Final page in the Album is page 20.
Again i have left my journalling predominantly to the receipts but i have also incorporated some chip board
wording to explain what the receipts are about. The wording was created using Stampin' Up! Designer series paper from the Stampin up Neutrals stack pack of paper (great value) adhered to some chipboard and then cut out with the big shot and the bigz simple letters and numbers die. The easy way to cut out chipboard for wording. You might notice i used a highlighting marker on my page, something not tradionally used on scrapbooking pages, however the colour was right and i wanted to draw the viewers attention to the purpose of the receipt. The final page was about the journey home, the shock of arriving at the airport and realising that my luggage was four kilos over weight. OOPS !!!!!!!!!! to much shopping and too many wooden stamp sets.lol. My suitcase was so heavy they had to put a warning label on it on how to pick it up. Sorry Jetstar. Mind you they slugged me $60.00 for the privilidge of shopping in Melbourne and at Convention. But you know what, it was worth it and i had forgotten about it since then until i scrapped it.
I now will always have a permanent reminder that i shopped my heart out in Melbourne, i survived and made it home to scrap book it and tell my family for generations to come, how much fun i had
in Melbourne 2011.
Thank you for popping in and sharing my trip, i hope i have helped with some of your scrapbooking quandries, does and donts about scrapbooking. Always remember, it's your journey, your memories and your scrap page.
If you are wanting to learn scrapbooking, some techniques or make some new friendship while you are scrapbooking, be sure and come along and join a scrapbooking stamp club or attend one of my PPP crop nights.
PPP crop nights are held the last saturday night of every month from 7pm till whenever at my home in Ourimbah, Central Coast NSW. The next one will be January 28th 2012.
I still have some vacancies for our new Scrapbooking Clubs starting February 2012.
Friday night 3rd @ 7.30pm and Sunday afternoon 5th @ 2pm
It's free to come along and all materials are supplied, you just need to let me know your coming, so that i have enough supplies and seating and bring a photo. Give me a call on mobile 0402 507 121 for the address and details.
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