blogging riley

I posted a couple of weeks ago the cover for my album, and thought I would explain a bit more about it.

I had some crazy idea while I was pregnant that I would create an album similar to the one I created as a baby shower gift for an online mummy friend. I was going to use Basic Grey's Lime Ricky paper, and proceeded to buy a large stash of it, along with matching Bazzill cardstock (which had to be specially ordered in for me) It's all sitting together in a pizza box in my scraproom... waiting.

I also randomly had the idea when he was about two months old to share monthly updates on my blog, and tagged them "I will scrapbook this", so every time I tagged a post I was reminded of my desire to actually create an album for this precious bundle of boy.

{action is PW cooler}

So, I'm taking the photos from the blog posts (and now that I'm playing with actions I may or may not edit them...) and pairing it with the words from the post in a 4x6 photo album. I'm using the flyin high digital set that I'm using for his first birthday (I emailed Elise Hansen last week - the kit doesn't have any red or yellow pages in it, but lots of red and yellow elements, so I asked for some red and yellow paper, and she obliged, and made a couple for me!)

{action is PW seventies}

I'm not sure now if I am ever going to finish, or even start, my original album idea. Maybe putting it together will inspire me to get back into playing with paper (because every time I work on something, I do enjoy the process)