My Wedding Album, Take 3

I've worked on my wedding album several times. The first time I hadn't discovered scrapbooking yet, so I mounted the pictures on white paper, printed out captions, and called it good. The second time was about a year after I started scrapbooking. Thankfully I decided to leave the pictures uncut (instead of cutting them into wedding related shapes, like I did many theme pages, Easter shapes for Easter, baby shapes for baby pages, etc). For embellishments, I used whatever embellishments I could find for relatively cheap, such as wedding embellishments from the dollar store or huge pages of stickers for $1 at the craft store. Needless to say, none of them matched and the pages weren't very put together. When the new Stampin' Up catalog came out in January, they actually had a wedding stamp set I liked. Not too cutesy, not too religious, just right for what I wanted. I bought it the beginning of February and have been trying to find motivation to use it since then.

On April 29, I started taking the pictures out of the old wedding album and did one page. I only did one page that night because our wedding colors were blue and pink and I'm going to alternate the background cardstock between blue and pink. I discovered I didn't have any light pink cardstock I liked to match the blue cardstock I had picked out of my stash. So on the 30th I stopped by Micheal's and picked up 30 pieces of pink paper in two different hues, one is kind of pearly and the other more a matte finish. The paper was the same price as the single sheet cardstock they carried, so I figured I'd buy the paper since I liked it better than the cardstock. Friday, May 2, I did two more pages. So at least I've started the album : ). I also still have all our cards we were given that are just in a file folder so I figure I'll also include some pocket pages to actually include the cards in the wedding album. I finished taking all the pictures out of the old album on the 29th also.

A page from my second attempt at a wedding album. Two little stickers and a die cut, that totally don't match each other, except for the fact that they all happen to be wedding themed.

Another page from the old album. Again, two little stickers and a die cut. At least I understood that odd number of embellishments work better than even numbers of them to balance the eye. : )

The new album page I did on April 29th. I bought the pink paper in the lower right hand corner in a package of 72 pieces of hand made paper at Costco. It was originally white, so I used a q-tip and an ink pad I have that is called "Satin Rose" and covered it with the pink ink so it'd go better with the colors in the layout. All of the stamped images are from the Wedding set I bought from Stampin' Up. The pink piece of paper on the right will have journalling on it. I am waiting until I have several pages to do so that I can print them all out on one sheet of cardstock.