Summercrafter

First of all, let me just say that even after seeing and handling the box almost everyday, moving it here and there around my Craft Corner area, I overestimated how much I could actually put inside it. Secondly, in case you did not know,  Sanibel is the Sea Shelling Capital of the world, not Cape Hatteras, so there goes the "shelled" paper idea. Since the box has a really nice "linen" type base through which you insert pins to hold the photos, ephemera etc.., I left the background as is. It serves as a nice contrast with the grey frame and other "cool colored" pics I added. As art would have it, omission is sometimes necessary. Some of the pictures never made it on there, partly because I didn't want to cut them, I rather overlap. The BIG picture. The inaugural item for the shadow box was a doodle I worked on while I planned the vacation. Then I fiddled with the layout of the photos and figured out how to integrate a map of the area....

A Scrapbook, is a package deal really, the memories and the art, but I usually will "Shutterfly" a photo album with vacation pictures because I do like to look at those and document the trip. Plus, scrapbooking 200 pictures would take forever! But for a condensed version, I thought of selecting some "highlight" photos and scrapbook those. Well, that's the idea at least, I do have the pictures... On a similar note, I did have an "a-ha" moment this summer after I found a shadow box large enough to encompass our last vacation --complete with shells, photos, tickets and ephemera (little papers that relate to the event or experience). I'm about to start that project any day now! Here are the materials: Shadow box I found at a Home Goods store, it has that "worn," beached look. Scrapbook paper & accents, only purchased on sale or with coupons! Photos of vacation highlights, I am partial to scenery! "Ephemera" paper...