Go, See, Do.....a scrapbook page

I've had projects that I've been working on for a couple of weeks now and needed to finish them. This scrapbook page is one of those projects. (click on picture for larger view)

I took this photo for another purpose but then that purpose ended up being invalid. I still wanted to use it, so I changed tactics and came up with this 12 x 12 page. 

This page is going into my "Me" album. It's basically on what my mind wanders to ALL THE TIME. What I want to do.....Go, See, Do.

A little background on the items in this photo....

Zach loves maps and is fascinated by globes. Actually, Davy and I are, too. In fact, my grandfather was a map maker for the government. My mom used to play a game called, "Where are we going to live tomorrow?" It was game in the midst of moving 6 times in the course of 3 years. She would jokingly take out an atlas, flip through the pages with her eyes closed and pick a page blind. Then she'd open her eyes and we'd look to see where we thought God was going to drop us next.

We'd been thinking that we'd like to get Zach a globe, but they were a bit on the pricey side. We found a small one at the dollar store, but it was actually a pencil sharpener (and did I mention that it was small???). Considering that it was a dollar store find, it didn't hold up well. My parents were here last fall and my dad went out to the dumpster to put the trash out and came back in the house with a globe. Our neighbor out front was moving and cleaning out and dumped a perfectly good globe in the trash. It's one of those gloves that tries to look antiquish. My dad washed it up and it's been sitting on the organ in our living room ever since. It really compliments the travel decor in our living room.

There's actually two passports in this photo. I have one opened up. This passport was the one I got when I was 14. I spent my summer in Uganda, East Africa (along with a week in Switzerland) in 1991 on a missions/work trip when I was 14. I was gone for a little over 2 months. I have some pretty nifty stamps in that passport. The other passport (the closed one) is the one that I got in December of 1999 so that Davy and I could take a 2 1/2 week trip to Ecuador for a missions/work trip in January/Feb. of 2000. We've since put the passports we got that time around to VERY good use.

That first trip to Africa was what started the passion I have to go, see and do and because of this, I wanted both passports in this picture. I turned the globe so that it showed the continent of Africa, for the very same reason.

For this page, I used the new Flourishes stamps from Tuscan Rose with White Craft ink.  I absolutely adore the look of white craft ink on darker cardstock. And as most of you know by now, one of my favorite colors is Mellow Moss. I used the Mellow Moss craft pad to swipe around the edges of the cardstock to darken them up a bit.

My friend, Jen, tweaked up the photo that I used on this page. She went black and white and then added some muted color in for the globe and even more muted color on me. This made for a great antique look.

The torn patterned paper corners (and the green paper mat under the photo) are from the Old World Stack (from Die Cuts with a View). The brads were something I picked up from a scrapbooking store up north and split with a friend (I'm not sure what brand they were, but I'm thinking they may have been Karen Foster). I "grunged" them up with White and Mellow craft ink. I also used the White craft ink to swipe around the edges of my photo to soften the edge up a bit.

I covered chipboard letters (from Making Memories) with patterned paper from the same Old World Stack and sanded the edges. I used the LetterPress Alphabet set with White Craft ink for the other letters. The brown patterned paper that I used for both the bottom mat for the photo and the little journaling blocks (which I swiped around the edges with White craft ink) is from Hot off the Press. I used the retired Euphoria Alphabet (from Stampin' Up) with Chocolate Chip ink to do the journaling.

Now that I think about it, I might just make this the first page in the "Dreams & Destinations" album that I've been thinking about starting for almost 5 years now. It seems to fit that theme so well.

One of my favorite quotes: " We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."  ~Hilaire Belloc

And what were the other projects I've been working on? Well, you can get a sneak peek here and then click on over to my Etsy Shop to see more of them. :)

Happy Creating!

-Stampin' Mama

 

 

Comments

[Gina K]

All of these are beautiful Erika!
Hugs,
Gina K.

[barb]

Hi Erika-
Embellishments- I love all of them! but if I had to choose I would pick...
brads (all different kinds).
Love your scrapbook pages!
Barb

[Mary C. Anderson]

I love your page Erika. I love that the picture of you having an aged look to it to match the globe. What a find that was. As always you have done such beautiful work. It is nice to see you scrapbooking more about yourself. I saw the "Go" challenge and need to do it! Heck, I need to just scrapbook about myself. :)I had no idea that you had been to Africa. You certainly do love to travel. I love the new books you made for your Etsy shop. Gorgeous!

Mary

[sharon in ne]

Shells and seagrass that I recently found on vacation.(I'm on a beach theme kick lately)

[Roos]

great Layout .
it`s a great blog , i had much fun making my GO

greetings Roos
from holland

[Michele]

This page is great! AND you used those flourishes...good girl! It is always nice to include yourself in those pages...we are usually the ones behind the camera!

[Lis]

Just beautiful :)

[stamperalex]

What a great page Erika! I am always so excited to see scrapbooking since I do that ALOT (although cards are fun as well) and you just don't see as much of those samples. I just love your blog and your pages - thanks so much for sharing! *HUGS* Alex

[patty van dorin]

I love this page, your colors and design is great! Would you be willing to have this on the design team gallery.
Patty