The Final Pages of the Marine Corps Scrapbook

Well here they are, the final pages to my husband's marine corps scrapbook! I just want to say thank you to all of you who have been commenting and rooting me on as I go along. You definately helped me stay motivated to get it finished. I had a lot of fun doing these and coming up with new designs.

They even were mentioned in an article in Leatherneck Magazine!

This is his "shaved head" for the deployment, he's not normally bald. haha.

Reunited-- Marine Corps Scrapbook

Ok one more for today and then I'm takin a break. These are the photos from the day my husband returned home from the 6 month boat deployment. (Before we had our son).

I dug through the archives to find a sketch that would work for my LO and this one is from 52 Sketches, 52 Weeks.

Honey & Pilots -- Marine Corps Scrapbook

My husband's job in the marines was to load ordnance (aka. bombs) onto Harrier Jets. He loved his job and he really enjoyed getting to know the pilots. He took this photo of a couple of his pilot buddies getting ready to take off. I couldn't think of a theme for this page, so I thought it would be funny to put "Always tip your Pilot" on there. The torn notebook page at the bottom is an svg file, you can get it here.



This was the sketch this week at Color Me Daisy. I am also participating in Frosted Design's challenge this week which is paper tearing/distressing.



Now I know you're probably wondering what this page has to do with the Marines, right? Well, my hubby and I dated long before he joined, so shortly after bootcamp, while stationed at Pensacola Beach, FL. I went down to visit for Valentine's Day. Well, this photo was taken just after he'd proposed to me on the beach. It was the day after Valentine's Day and it was very COLD! But nonetheless, it was romantic!

This is the sketch for this week at 52 Sketches, 52 Weeks. Only 1 week left before they shut down. :(

Daddy Is Home & On the Boat -- Marine Corps Scrapbook

I got a couple more pages squeezed in yesterday. My husband was busy assembling some christmas toys, that way my son didn't have to wait for them to be put together after opening them. So while he was occupied, I was too!

This page was made using this week's sketch at Sketch Inspiration (a new site!). They are trying to reach 200 members by Christmas, so go join in the fun! The little newspaper article at the bottom was about a missle narrowly missing my husband's ship while at port in Jordan. It was pretty scary. One soldier was killed and it made CNN headline news back in June of 2005.

This one was made using last week's sketch from 52 Sketches, 52 Weeks. The font in the title is called "Captain Howdy" I love it! It cut really well at about 1" high.

Christmas at Scrap & Stamp

This week's challenge at Scrap & Stamp is Christmas of course! I found this photo of my son when he was just 1 year old sitting on Santa's lap. He had no clue what was going on. the photo didn't turn out perfect (santa's a little blurry),but I still love it. He was the most authentic Santa I'd ever seen!

Anyways, this week at Scrap & Stamp, the DT members were challenged to use bits and pieces from a digital card making kit called "Funky Christmas" from Making Handmade Cards. So I printed out the "Jack Frost Nipping at your Nose" paper and the 3 Trees that you see at the bottom. It thought they matched this patterned paper that I already had perfectly. I got the paper at Dollar Tree a long time ago.

The Tour -- Marine Corps Scrapbook

Here I am with yet another layout. I've discovered a few new (well, new to me) scrapbooking challenge blogs. I have been scrapping so much lately that I ran out of challenges and sketches. So I went hunting for fresh blood. haha. This sketch is from Magpie Club. It is designed by Julie Bonner (also designer and owner of 52 sketches). I just love her sketches. They are so easy to follow.

This page has several pictures of the tour that my hubby gave me and our family of his squadron. A couple of these pics are kinda comical to me, so I added speech bubbles to give suggestion to what we were thinking. hehe.

Well I'm almost finished with the album, only 13 LO's to go! This album is really big. I think it probably holds about 30-40 pages. And seeing as how I only started it about a month or so ago, I'm having to cram them all in quickly.

Initiation -- Marine Corps Scrapbook

Let me tell you, this was a fun layout to make!!! I made my own paint splatter paper! It was so easy too (but messy). First I put a little bit of black paint on a paper plate, added tiny bit of water to thin it out, then I got a paint brush and swirled it in the paint really well. Then I just shook it above the cardstock. If that didn't work well enough, I'd hold the paint brush in one hand and tap it with the other. It was a blast! I am definately going to be doing this again! It didn't take long for the paper to dry either since the paint was watered down, it soaked up quickly.

The skull die cut was one that I cut out a long time ago. I used to have it in my store for sale, but today I'm giving it away for free! You can download it here.
The font for the title is Jacob's handwriting (from Twilight). It is called Almagro.


I got the inspiration for the entire layout from the Sketchy Thursday's challenge this week.