Diary of a Dirty Girl: As Promised........ Josh's scrapbook

Well it's not quite the scrapbook you would give a seven year old boy. Josh is a very special grandson. He has an artistic eye and loves my scrapbooks. When I show his mom what I have made, he is right there engrossed with every detail. I do know he will like this one. This past winter Josh went with his family to Florida. Becky (my daughter) had found her old digital camera and gave it to him to take pictures. He took many pictures of his vacation. He asked his mom to get him a photo album for his pictures. This is when I got the idea to make him an album for his birthday. Josh loves dolphins and mermaids. Last year for his birthday we made a fairy garden out of dolphins a light house and a mermaid. Well, I completed the album all but the embellishments. I cut out die cuts from the cricut cart. Life is a Beach. I put them thru the Xron. When Josh puts in the pictures he can embellish it with the die cuts. I used Graphic 45 Tropical Travelogue paper. I used a 8x8 pad and used coordinating card stock for the tags and pages. This paper is so beautiful there is no need to embellish it. I used Stack the Deck with pockets pattern for the mini album (by Laura Dennison) Following The Paper Trail. This is the second time I have made this type of album. I really like it it has so much real estate. It hold 87+ pictures And 6 to 12, 5x7 pictures. I made the matching charm using packing tape and foil. You take the packing tape and stick it to the patterned paper you want to make a charm out of then run it under water and take and rubbed the layers of card stock off until all you have on the tape in the translucent pattern still on the tape. Don't worry if you even rubbed some of the pattern off the tape a little it just ages it. Then using sticky back foil stick it to the back of the tape. Then glue the tape to the back of the acrylic charm using ever so tiny bit of glossy accents . Trim it up. And there it is... In the bottles with the cork on it is a note that says Dear josh I love you , Love Grandma LaLa There is another charm bottle full of sand from the Clear Water Beach. hhhmmm now what,,,, on to the next project... I think they will be baby books a couple of girls from my church are having babies.

the net is an onion bag I recycled and re purposed. I now buy my onions according to the container they come in . Different types of onions comes in different colors and types of net bags. Who cares what they taste like, all the onions taste the same to me anyways. I just love the net bags they come in.