Bonding Scrapbook layout

Bonding

You know how guys are, 

slap on the back, butt heads or chest, punch.  

These are their forms of affection.

I am in Alaska,

visiting with our oldest son,

and his family.

Robyn, his wife, 

(yes, there are 2 Robin OCrowley's)

let me go through a box of photos that are 

duplicates.

I of course, love these fun moments for my

own books  to look through,

and I get to use a new variety of photos,

older kids!

So these are the kind of guy pics

I found, they are so Josh, and just 

so fun to see how much he loves his sons.

I used our new baby line of papers and stickers, and a few other

papers that just seemed to add that 

guy look to the page.

And of course dew drops, in blue 

to match the page.

I also cut out the motif from the classified cardstock.

Well, just a fun simple layout with my son and his sons.

Enjoy!

Hugs,

Robin

School Mini Book

School Mini Book

I've always wanted to do a cute

mini just for school.

Rachel designed awesome paper that is absolutely 

Perfect for School.

School Product line (Upstate NY)

Here is a link to our website to find this paper

This is an 8x8 album.  

I also added to the grouping of products to use

Classified Papers

Blue glitter cardstock

Boy Sticker

They all fit into the school theme I was working on.

I love the fonts used on this cardstock.

It is so "today"

and what the kids of today

see and like.

I used several sheets of these alphabet paper 

and numbers paper.

First I cut out the pages for the book.

there is a 4 inch left over edge 

of paper to use as embellishments on the book.

I spent an hour or so just cutting out

numbers and letters,

or cutting the entire strip of letters

for a border.

Then I started to put my book together.

On the front cover of the book is the number paper,

I then added stickers, clocks cut from the clock cs, and some of the cut out

letters. Some are popped up.

Then blue and silver dew drops, a piece of lined school paper

finish the cover of the book.

I also wanted to have the word SCHOOL

on the front of the book.

So I used a tag punch, and school lettering from 

my scrapbook stash

and put a letter on each of the pages of the book at the top

as a tag, and a title all in one.

My pages came next.

I picked this rust color and blue as the theme colors of the book.

Now from here on out, I have used the images I cut out from the 

left over paper as my embellishments.

I did cut the book pages from different sections of the 

12x12 paper so each page has a

different look, but I used the same paper.

I also used a small lined note pad

as my journaling tags in the book.  You can find these 

for 25 cents at the store.

This paper works for all ages,

I would do a teen high school

book in this paper too.  It is designed for 

all ages, and perfect for our day and time.

Because we learn so much about the world,

I used the ancient map cs, and as a opposite to the page

I used the airplane diamond cs from the new baby line.

The striped paper is Admiral Daisy/Stripe CS.

Between these pages is a mini page.

I love to add these,

just to make a statement and add

more photos instead of more of the same pages.

This page is smaller, and is a pocket page,

inside the pocket is a tag with another picture!

Here are the pages without the mini page inside.

Our last few pages are made with the Classified Cs, and the flag paper.

I used pictures glued together for one of the pages

of the kids playing at the playground.

Another pocket page after that with 2 tags inside it.

And then the flag as my last page.

On the last page,
I added on the flag
the Pledge of Allegiance
You can do this with any country
or any school motto.

These kids I have in this book are our
Alaska family,
they home school their kids, so
school is a bit different here.

Love my to Scrapbook my family.

Here again is the front cover of the book.

Can you believe it is school time already?

Fall is around the corner. 

Can't wait!

Remember you can find these products on our website.

www.robinsnest-scrap.com

Hugs,

Robin

Hawaii

Hawaii

Many years ago I just couldn't get Hawaii out of my system.

We went several times, over and over,

and each time we came back, I wanted more of that

slow paced, tropical life.

Over the years I have gotten over it, but I do love to go

where there is water.  

I love to camp by the water, and I love to

sit on the beach and just

soak in the beauty of the world of

tropics.

Here is the cover page that I created for one of my

Hawaii albums.

I decided to do something a bit different. and so the challenge was on.

Different, what is different.

Here I have used leaf beads from my bead stash, and the best find of all

was the use of a CD case/

I took the original papers out, and filled the case with

Robin's Nest glitter paper, beads, yarn and a photo.

Here is the CD case up close.  I just used glue dots

to adhere the case to the page. and glue dots

to adhere the beads to the edge of the inside of the case/

You could also add some pages and make a little book inside the CD

case to make the page even have more meaning.

Mini dew drops in pink ad such character to the page.

I love to drape them down the page 

and then add a few other embellishments 

to complete the look.  

Here I have used a leaf bead, 

and flower stickers.

I love to pull out our Hawaii books and reminisce. 

I don't have to go any more to feel that 

tropic life, I just open my books

and I am there all over again.

Products used:

Glitter Spring Flowers

Glitter Spring Flowers Sticker

Pink Mini dew drops

All other products from my scrapbook stash

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Clearsnap has great inks to add to the look of your page.
This would be awesome to do to this page too.

Hugs to all of you,

Robin

Clam Digging in Alaska

Clam Digging in Alaska

We are making more checks on my

Bucket list!

One thing I have always wanted to do is go clamming.

Another is crabbing, but that will be another time.

We started our day at 4 am, everyone dressing 

and getting ready to go, all 7 of us.

The drive was about 40 minutes to get to 

Clam Gulch.

We unloaded the shovels, buckets, and dogs,

then the vehicles had to up the hill to be parked, and we started our

walk to the edge of the water.

At 6 am was when the tide was lowest,

so we wanted to be there at the lowest tide to start digging.

The light wasn't quite ready when we arrived.  It was hard to

see the little open holes in the sand.  

But as the sun started coming up we started finding our little holes.

So here's what you do.  

Find a open mini hole, dig really fast, and find the clam.

It took a few holes to figure out what we were

doing, because clams are fast!

We dug Razor clams.

Once we got the hang of it, Dana and I would look for holes,

Gabe with us, find a whole, Dana would dig really fast

and find the clam in the middle of all the sand.

We learned a few things,

Clams can dig fast when they know they are in 

danger, and they do, down or to the side,

you don't really know which way.

So the key to finding them is

to dig fast, and have a person going through the

sand and find the clam.

Here is a Razor Clam in Gabes hands

.

I always thought that you would go to the beach, 

there would be rocks with little pools of water

and you would go find the clams in the pools of water.

This was not my vision, but it was so much fun.

We walked the sand bars together, finding 

holes, digging, picking clams,

filling our bucket, and then on to

finding more holes.

We all worked together in teams looking for holes, 

then digging and putting our clams in our buckets.

Here you can see all the holes that we have dug,

not that you find a clam in every hole.

We spent 3 hours digging for clams,

dug 105 clams, Razor clams, and Butter clams

The boys went swimming,

the dogs ran, and ran, and ran everywhere.

It was very adventurous!

Today, we cooked and opened the 

clams, cleaned out the meat,

and froze the stash.

We ended up with 8 cups of cleaned clams.

I made my favorite clam chowder, 

which everyone LOVED!

And, we had a blast

with our kids and grandkids

making memories 

we won't forget.

And another item off the Bucket List!

Hugs to you all,

Robin

Becca Ann

Becca Ann

There is not a thing more fun than to take pictures of your family.

While our 9 grandchildren were here for 2 weeks this summer,

We spent some fun hours dressing up

and taking photos.

I can't wait to get these photos back

from the printer and start making

pages with them.

This picture is Becca Ann about 5 years ago/

She just had her 9th birthday last week,

So we will celebrate her this post/

I really wanted a page simple yet elegant.  

I love to use our Staple papers when I am in the mood for this.

Just for fun

I went pink and brown.

I used 

Classic Glitter Swirl in brown. (It comes in 11 colors)

Glitter Daisy/Stripe in gold with pink glitter

 (it comes in 6 colors) the stripe is the back side of this paper

Brown Cardstock

Glitter Princess Crown CS

Pink stripe is the back side of Princess Crown

Daughter Sticker

Metallic Pink Dew Drops

Corrugated Brown box

Princess Clippies

Pink letters from my scrapbook stash 

I just drew on the paper with the tip of the glue bottle the swirls

then placed the dew drops on the swirls

The glitter flowers are cut from the

Glitter Gold Daisy/Stripe CS

then adhered to the corrugated box cut from a spellbinders die

I so love the dimension that the dew drops give

to the page.

You can make any shape with them, because you are not limited.

Just draw with the tip of your glue, and 

slide the dew drops on!

That simple.

Remember,

you can purchase these products on our website

www.robinsnest-scrap.com

Have a great day,

Hugs,

Robin

Alaska August 2013

Hello,

While we are in Alaska, the first time in what I thought was summer, 

August, 

I want to share what we have seen here.

First, in August, 

it is rainy, cloudy, and cool.

Not Summer, more early Fall.

so I didn't pack warm enough for this

cool weather.

We stopped in at Value Village,

the local thrift store,

so we could buy long pants, and long sleeve shirts

for this cooler weather.

I can wear Robyn's shirts and shoes.

So just pants for me.

I have only been to Alaska in the winter,

so this is a new adventure for me,

Green leafed trees

instead of Snow covered trees!

We have been here 5 days now, wow, the time goes by fast!

One day Robyn took us to go

blue berry picking.

Well, we never found any blue berries

but, 

we did find some very beautiful

mountains and scenery,

which is what I have never seen of

Alaska.

Our crew, minus me.

This is Gabe, Lucas, Dana, Robyn, Ali

The beauty of the Alaska Mountains

Lunch in hand,

We are ready to pick

Alas, no blue berries

So we just ate

with these beautiful surroundings

Can you believe this is

just all

Natural?

Every day!

Ali in the field of flowers

Gabe tromping through the field

It sprinkled on us a bit

but to see such a sight,

it is worth having a few drops

around!

Ferns and flowers in the grove of trees

we walked through.

It felt like a 

Lord of the Rings set

the trail went through

short trees that were arched

over the top of you.

Such natural beauty.

The flowers growing wild

on the sides of the road, 

in the fields,

by the streams,

and the lakes.

WOW!

We are loving it here,

August in Alaska.

Have a great day!

Robin