Air Force Museum

Ohio Vacation of a Lifetime pages 3 and 5

Backpacking Trip

I like the first spread. I'm satisfied with the second spread. I can't figure out how to fix the last spread. It's the colors, I think... this page may change.

Mom's Visit

It's pretty plain, but I had fun doing a whole spread around one photo.

London

Here it is! The opening page to my London collection. I have been waiting for ages to post this layout and finally the day has arrived. Usually when I finish a scrapbook page, I'm satisfied or even still annoyed by something that I just can't seem to place, but every once in a while you get a page where it just comes together. Then you stand back and say "Dang, I'm brilliant!" Ok, I know it won't be everyone's favorite; you don't have to like it. I don't even know why I like it so much more than any of my other pages, but I'm awarding it Amy's page of the year (can you award your own pages? That's pretty darn cocky, huh!) Well, don't expect anything better than this, this year. This years award has already gone out. Unfortunately there are three type-Os in there. THREE... maybe more! Why did I forget to run spell check before I printed those black pages? I haven't had the heart to pull it all up and fix it yet.

London

Yippee! My whole three day London trip is done! There is one more layout in the series, but I won't be posting it until July. I'm sorry the quality is not so good. The scanner and I have not exactly been on good terms these days. And no, I have no idea why most of them will not enlarge.

Keep in Touch

This is a layout that's on the QuicKutz website, but after I finished it, I liked it more than I thought I would. I think eventually I'll make a companion page for it... maybe something that has photos of all the family members. It will be sort of a snapshot in time of where everyone is living right now. It looks like we could use someone down in Arizona or up in New York to balance out our parallelogram... Mike? Brian? Anyway, if I ever get around to making it, I'll post the other page too.

The Single's Guide to Married Life

Everything you need to know about marriage, from those who have never experienced it.

I recently finished the second edition of this book. I made the first one for Dan and Amber. I contacted all their single friends and asked them for fun marriage advice in the following areas: Keeping the Spark Alive, Resolving Conflict, How to Care for a Pregnant Wife, When the Kids Come, Division of Labor and Money Management. It was such a hit as a wedding present that I decided to do the Second Edition for Jared and Ann. I'm getting better at recovering board books, so I spruced up the back cover of the second edition.

I Love Utah

It's fun, every once in a while, to scrapbook something about who I am, rather than a specific event. I really do love Utah. There is so much to do. I can and will fill the companion page for this spread with different places I have been in Utah.

Thanksgiving

This is a layout that I have been wanting to post for the last three months. I had to wait until CHA (which started today) where we (QuicKutz) were unveiling the new "Rockstar Mini" and "Mary Jane Grand" Alphabets. The background looks kind of greyish in the scan, but it's really a warmer chipboard brown.

Here's an old one. It's nothing specail, but it was kind of fun to do an 8.5x11.

2006 Timeline

I have been excited about this layout for the cover page of my 2006 album for the last month. I printed all the photos for it a month ago and then they all disappeared until yesterday when I finally had time to clean my desk at work! Happy day! I went home and finally put it all together.

Ok, I made the right page about four years ago as an assignment for a freelance project. I FINALLY got around to creating the other half of the spread (which isn't easy when you can't find the same papers you used four years ago). I think it goes well enough and now, of course, I like the left side better than the right side. Maybe in a few years, I'll redo the right side.

White on Black

A "How To" by Amy Walton

Ok, gather around everyone and I will unfold the mystery of the white on black journaling. The truth is you don't "print" white at all; That's impossible on most printers. Really, you're just printing out a whole lot of black on white paper and just leaving the words white. What a let down, I know, because in order to pull this off you have to have a really good printer and be willing to use a lot of ink. When I use this technique on large sections (ie. the last three layouts posted), I use my printer at work. It's a big fancy 'kinkos-style' Canon color printer. But, I also do it on my cheap, little, came-with-my-computer printer at home. I just do smaller sections like the brown tag on my Queen Elizabeth Park post.

If you're using word to try this out, draw a text box to your desired dimensions (that's in the drawing toolbar). Color the words white and fill the box with whatever color you want. If you need more colored space around the text, draw an additional box around the whole thing and make sure it goes behind your journaling. Because the color on your screen isn't always the color that comes out of your printer, I print out a series of swatches by drawing little boxes and filling them with various shades of that color to help me find the one that's going to match the paper I'm using.
Ink cartridges and Bazzill paper are my fundamental scrapbook supplies. Now, if they actually came out with an affordable printer that did that white embossed writing on black cardstock, I'd be all over that, but this works pretty well too.

Take the Lead

Black is the new... black.

Yes, black is the color of the month. I just like the way it looks with my outdoor photos. Plus I know it drives Mary insane with the mystery of my white on black writing. Come visit me in Utah, Mary, and I'll unfold to you the complicated secrets of my journaling.


This was a fun set of pages to do. I would look at the photos and break into giggles at the memory of that disgusting, stagnant, smelly water.