Inspired!

I've been buying scrapbook magazines like crazy lately - and there's a couple more idea books that I'm looking for! I've seen some really neat ideas, and it's gotten me inspired to create.

In my July/August Simple Scrapbooks, there was an article on quick and easy travel albums. The one that I jsut loved was an altered recipe card box (covered in actual maps - how cool is that?) with postcards made from actual vacation photos. As soon as I saw it, I right away thought of a picture I took when I went to Europe in 1995. One of the cities we visited was Innsbruck, Austria; which hosted a couple of Winter Olympics (don't ask me the years, though). We went up to the ski jump hill, and I took a great picture of Innsbruck down in the valley below, with the Alps in the background. It's my favourite picture from the trip, and I think it would make a great postcard.

Then in a Creating Keepsakes magazine I bought last week, there's an article about making a "Snapshot of my Life" album. Some of the layout ideas are really neat, and it's got me wanting to make my own snapshot album. I already have ideas on putting together some of the layouts, and what I want them to look like. One of my favourite layouts is the one that's composed of a few top 10 lists, like the one I made of "10 things I always have in my purse". Have I ever mentioned that I LOVE top 10 lists? Lists in general, actually. And I love scrapbooking with lists.

The other idea that I came up with, that I'm really excited about and can't wait to start, is a "Smile" book - an album full of things that make me smile. I have a lot of scrapbooking things that I've bought just because I love them. But because I love them so much, I don't want to use them (like the 3D Winnie the Pooh sticker I bought just because he's cute and he's Winnie the Pooh and I love Winnie the Pooh). So I'm going to put them in a little scrapbook for those times when I need a little pick-me up. Just think - all my favourite happy things in one place! One of the pictures I'm going to use is one of James and I when we were really young; I think I was about 3-4, so Jamie would have been 2-3. He's standing looking right at the camera, but I'm standing sort of facing him with both arms his shoulders. I love that picture!

TTFN!