so much fun!

Last night, my cousin came over to scrapbook with me. As a newbie to scrapbooking, I loved her enthusiasm for trying something new and it was just what I needed to get me going on my scrapbook of our trip to Portugal this past summer!

We both started with choosing an album to fit our ideas & pictures we had. I obviously went with summer inspired album, whereas my cousing, went with something classic for her album. I also went over some basic tools of the trade such as papercutter, adhesive, paper types & journalling. As her eyes grew bigger from info overload, I calmed my excitement and started skethcing the title page layout.

I can't seem to post my sketch, but here's the final product...

portugal 2009

{I love the patterened paper I chose & the tiles (dollarama) are so very portugal & summery}

{I also loved how the year stamped out beautifully!}

I'll post my cousin's layout next time, as I forgot to take photos of it. oops! :)

I'm super excited about this project for several reasons, I'll get to scrapbook for me on a more regular basis, I'll be scrapbooking with someone who is just as excited about this as I am, I'll get to play with everything in my stash just so that I can show her how to play and have fun with scrapbooking, AND you'll all get to see some great layouts as we continue to scrapbook together. Yippee!

Happy Scrappin',

Cindy