Little Summer JOY - Celebrating Little Things, part II

I am so loving following along with Alexandria's lesson at Little Paper Projects this week.

I've created another traveler's notebook layout to celebrate the little things.

I know it may be a bit strange because we're talking about JOY this summer, and clearly a death is not JOYful, but it's also a part of life. My Nana passed away earlier this year, and her 70th birthday would have been this summer. So I have documented this day. And although I miss her every day, it is joyful in a way, because she no longer suffering and is in a much better place!

You can see that it doesn't hurt my feelings to make two facing pages distinct from one another, as the red, white and blue was not the color choice I wanted to continue to page two of Celebrate the Little Things.

I chose lots of pretty gold - the foil is a bit hard to photograph.

I love how the sun was shining that afternoon - and the pretty yellow flowers are perfect for a summer birthday.

We were joyful that the headstone had actually arrived just that day - celebrating a little thing! After this I took my family to the park and we played and enjoyed each other, just as Nana would've wanted.

I hope you are enjoying documenting your summer with Little Summer JOY! I am loving it and my contribution to the class is coming up next week! Eeek! So excited & a little nervous. I hope you all will enjoy it.

Supplies:
Gold Heart paper & Pink tags - Studio Calico
Solid Gold Foil paper - DCWV

Thanks for looking!

Bright Mini Album for the Counterfeit Kit Blog Hop!

Hello everyone! Thank you so much for hopping over to my blog. You should have arrived here from Elaine's blog.

Today I have a fun project I created with my Counterfeit Kit, Colorful Love. I made a bright, colorful mini album with instax I took at my cousin's wedding. We had a super great time, and the ground of the location were beautiful (although it was HOT!) and I snapped a few great shots with my instax. I thought a mini album is a perfect way to show off these tiny prints.

For this album I did not want to adhere any paper to the tag base of my album. I wanted to use all washi tape, stamps and ephemera.

This first spread is my son, who was the ring bear. He's holding a stick & said he's Harry Potter. Haha!

I have to say, the instax has never disappointed me on the selfie-taking!

I made these super fun washi feathers from a video I saw on pinterest. They were super easy to make. Won't be surprised if they crop up again in other work!

The wedding venue had a lovely garden & those Maggie Holmes flower ephemera were just perfect!

The dark tent and far away seat did not for a great instax shot make, but you can see the most important thing, the bride! Here they are having their first dance.

I did use a cricut cut from paper for the final page, just because I had the perfect ending, "Happily Ever After!"

Thanks for looking at my work, and make sure to join along at the counterfeit kit club challenge next month!

You should hop on over to Tina's blog next.

In case you get lost, here's the entire blog hop map:


Lisa
Elaine
Natalie <---YOU ARE HERE

Tina <---GO HERE NEXT

Roxanne
Jemma
Princy

Have a great day!