Seattle Honeymoon Pages Finished!

I am FINALLY finished with my Seattle scrapbook from January 2010.  I have been working on a page here, a page there for a year now.  It's not that it takes this long to complete 36 pages.  It's just that work got busy and I didn't have much time.  But school's been out for a few weeks now and I finished it!  I'm just going to share my two favorites from the end of the book.

This one is our last night in Seattle.  We ventured over to West Seattle where there is a beach with beautiful views of the Seattle skyline and mountains across the Puget Sound.  It was gorgeous.

This is the first page I've made using "stacking," which is a technique I found out about through my daily downloads.  I just staggered three different papers with varying degrees of rotation and added some elements along the side.  It came out pretty well for my first try if I do say so.

For my last page of the book, my intentions were to do another stacked page.  However, the color scheme I was using didn't match the "mood" of my last few pictures.  So I saved it to use another time.  I loved it so much, I couldn't just delete it.  I'm sure I'll be using it soon.  I'm sharing it here so you can see that my second stack came out so much different than this one (And I think better).  I like that I resized my top two layers of paper to be smaller than the base page before rotating them.  The 2nd page isn't rotated at all.  I think I'll use this method more often.  I also like the lace and scalloping that I used as an edge on this one.  I think this will make a good page layout for some spring or summer pictures.  I can't wait to use it!


My last page of my Seattle scrapbook are views of the skyline as the sun set .  The camera just can't capture how beautiful this view was!  But alas, I tried.

This page also isn't my favorite.  Maybe this is because I've seen what stacked pages can look like!  I just used a simple print page and matted photos and a matted text description.  The page looked too plain so I added the two bows and a few "staples."  Still not satisfied, I added the embelleshment on the bottom left.  I'm still not happy with this page....but it does look better.  I don't want to add more to it because I don't want it to get tacky.  Oh well.  It will do!

Hopefully I'll be scrapbooking and posting much more until school starts again.  We'll see....