My Black & Blue Wedding - March 2010

I'm so excited for this young couple. Though they experienced a few bumps in the road prior to their wedding date, I pray that the blessing of Abraham will be upon them as they begin their new life together.

Jamar & Ashton have many things in common, i.e. they share the same birthday, both of their fathers are named Willie; many of their close family members also share the same name; and her maiden name is 'Black' and her married name is 'Blue'. (Black & Blue, a  great wedding theme & color) The bride chose pink & orange as her wedding colors, as you can see in the sand photo above.

Thanks Jamar & Ashton for allowing me to be a part of your special day. A special thanks also to their parents, Willie & Angela Black and Willie & Evelyn Blue; all of Fayetteville NC.

Wedding Scrapbook Finale

Embellishments: Here is a link to a great idea to embellish your wedding pages. http://www.scrapbooksetc.com/techniques/stamping/projects/stamped-scrapbook-page-backgrounds/?page=10 We will talk about this subject more later.

Now that you've purchased your scrapboook album and papers, get your pictures in hand and let's begin putting together the pages.

Let's start by telling your love story with the engagement photos first, then the wedding photos.

- Select a photo and the paper that compliments the photo (solid color or decorative cardstock paired with solid color or decorative paper) .

- Trim (paper trimmer or tear/rip) your top sheet of decorative or solid paper so that your cardstock (bottom sheet) will also be seen.

- With double-sided tape in hand find the perfect placement on the page and tape your photo to the paper. You can also use glue dots or a glue stick.

-You can add embellishments (anything that adds more beauty to a page i.e., brads, buttons, ribbon, rub-ons, staples, glitter, beads, jewelry, and ...) at this time or you can complete all of your layouts and then go back and add the embellishments.

- The first and last page of the scrapbook album will be single page layouts.

- The second and third, fourth and fifth, etc pages, can be designed as double page layouts if you like.

- Scrapbook pages can be created with simplicity or not. This is your wedding album (your dream), just be creative.

Honey, it's cold outside, Burr!

It finally happen; we received almost 2 inches of snow yesterday in about 3 hours. I'm warm (in the house of course) working on Valentine cards, gifts, etc; so I'm very content. I have 3 weddings coming up with the first one in March, so my evenings and weekends are busy. To the right are some night and day photos of the snow. It's really been a great creative outlet for me, surprisely.

Wedding Scrapbook - Choose One

To the left are photos of two 12x12 scrapbook albums. You can purchase albums as plain or fancy as you want.

If you purchase your albums from a craft store, you will either find them on sale or you can use a coupon. The black & white album was purchased from Michael's and the blue and white one from Hobby Lobby.

I have posted two wedding scrapbook articles from http://www.scrapbooketc.com/ for you. This will give you ideas from completed pages that you can scraplift or jumpstart your creative flow. Search through this site and I promise that you will throughly enjoy it.

Stay tune to find out what tools you will need to complete your album. Blog in later for more...

Wedding Scrapbook Layout Ideas: Scrapbook Wedding Photos of the Bride and Groom

Wedding Scrapbook Layout Ideas: Scrapbook Wedding Photos of the Bride and Groom

Wedding Scrapbook Layout Ideas: Frame a Panoramic Photo with Filmstrip Borders

Wedding Scrapbook Layout Ideas: Frame a Panoramic Photo with Filmstrip Borders

The snow that came as ice

Well, it really happen this time. Some of us received snow, but most of us received ice. It really looks good from the inside, but I dare not travel outside. It doesn't matter how many times the news reporters say, "stay off the roads if you don't have to be out", they eventually report that someone got stuck in the snow/ice just to go to the store or a resturant. I don't get it with some people, I guess they think it want happen to them.

Anyway, I decided to stay in the house and do some executive work. I have a few weddings to plan so organization is a must.

Don't forget to submit your couple and baby photos to show on my blog. Send all photos to tatum_event_planning_design@msn.com.