Parade of Pages {End with Family}

You've reached the end of the parade! I hope you enjoyed my parade of pages and have found some inspiration. I scrapbook because my family is the most important thing to me in my life and I want to preserve all our memories. I felt it would be most appropriate to share these final pages that focuses on that.

Parade of Pages {Winter Wonderland}

You can never have enough Christmas pages in your albums! This time I am using the cool Wonderland papers! I really let the gorgeous snowflake papers be the star and did just a little bit of stamping and embellishing.

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Parade of Pages {Perfect Day}

These papers take me back a couple of years. They were gorgeous papers and like so many products that I love I was trying to hoard them and not use them. How silly right!? They look amazing and in a way I'm still hoarding them in my scrapbook for years and years and years!

Parade of Pages {Back 2 School}

I know, I know! Don't remind you that the bliss of Summer will unfortunately come to an end. I love having my kids home for summer, but I also love to hear about their day at school. They start to miss their friends and activities. So needless to say, the day will come to go back!

The Typeset papers are fabulous! What a cool color combination for a school theme. Plus these canvas stickers that coordinate with them are totally awesome!

Parade of Pages {Zippidee Moment}

Earlier in the Parade I showed you some fun Disney themed pages using the Zippidee papers. These will coordinate with them perfectly. I always come back with so many pictures, so hopefully all four of these will be enough!

Parade of Pages {Believe in Miracles}

The lovely Miracle papers began as a kit before they were available in the Idea Book. One of the things I loved about it were these big pre-cut shapes like you see here on the left side. The Irresistibles Chipboard was also amazing! I pulled out some of those Kraft color-ready borders and some really old felt shapes. It feels so good to finally use up some of these products and the pages turned out pretty nice. It's a miracle!



Parade of Pages {Let's go for a Ride}

Summer time means lots of activities to keep the kids moving. Us adults too! We love swimming, hiking and riding the best! For these pages I used the Elemental papers again and a mellow color combination. I'm on a mission to collect stamps with bicycles lately. Unfortunately this means I purchase from other than Close To My Heart, I promise though it's just for the 'wheelie' cool bike stamps! : ) The stamps I used for this page are from Hero Arts. Everything else is CTMH!

Parade of Pages {Scatter Sunshine}

How about some more splendor & sunshine on this parade!  These pages are so much fun! They are colorful and have space for several photo's. The Stickease makes it easy to add embellishments and even a spot for journaling!



Parade of Pages {Christmas in July}

It's never too early to start preparing for the Holidays. I know some crafters that begin all their Christmas cards now. So why not have some Christmas pages ready for all those pictures I always take!

I used some older Mistletoe papers that I'm certain will be a perfect fit for any photo's I might take as the colors match my home Holiday decor. I am so in love with how my little banner turned out. It was created with the Milepost Corrugated Shapes, scallop punch and the Typewriter Keys alpha stamp.

Parade of Pages {You are my Favorite}

Ahhh! Florentine, one of my favorite papers! It's one of those paper packs and accessories that you hate to part with. I want to hoard it forever, but why? It's much better to use it in my scrapbooks to preserve my most precious memories. That's truly keeping it forever! The embellishments that coordinate with these papers are also fabulous. They are perfect for creating "clusters" on your pages!

Parade of Pages {Home}

There's no place like home! We spend a lot of time in our homes and work hard to fill them with our personal touches and captured memories. It's important to snap pics around the house and cherish them in a scrapbook page, because things can & will change over time.

The beautiful Elemental papers were used to complete these pages. My favorite is the Cricut cut chipboard banner in the corner!

Parade of Pages {Frills & Flourishes}

The pages on parade today were inspired by the artists at Jeanette Lynton's Blog. I enjoyed rocking and rolling this big flourish to add interest to the page. I was also able to use up just a bit of this lovely Juniper ribbon, the perfect frilly embellishment! 

Parade of Pages {Celebrate USA}

Today on my Parade of Pages we're celebrating America! and Yes, that's really a pie that I baked in the picture above! It's a delicious berry pie with cherries, blackberries, strawberries and blueberries! Yumm~O!

My pages today have some older patriotic papers and many older stamp sets! Even the "DREAM" irresistibles chipboard was from a promotional kit over a year ago. Like I said though, if I don't use it, then I won't have room for the new stuff! Have a safe & spectacular celebration today!

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Parade of Pages {Disney}

Did you hear about the new Cars land at California Adventures? My kids and I just love the movies, especially the tow truck Mater! I need some Disney time soon!

In hopes of making it to Disneyland this summer, I created these pages with some older papers and stickease. Can't wait to see the new attractions and watch the parade of course! These are also perfect for my Parade of Pages this month!

Parade of Pages {Best Friends}

Summer time is the best when it is spent with friends! Today's page on parade is perfect for capturing memories with a friend.

My daughter & her best friend are trying to spend every moment together. They have been in school together for 2 years and do lots of activities together. They first met at church, bowled in a summer league together, make music in band, sing together & played golf for their middle school team this year. They are inseperable, until recently. Her friend's dad is in the Navy and their entire family will be deployed to Japan for 3-4 years. They leave this week on their great journey. These girls are spending every last moment together. I sure hope they can still "face-time" overseas!

Parade of Pages

It's July folks, we are already half way through this year...seriously?! The 4th of July celebrations are just around the corner. That makes me think of BBQ's, Apple pie, Fireworks and Parades!
When my kids were younger, we lived in a great little community where all the children were around the same age. Every fourth of July we'd have a big neighborhood celebration. One of my favorite memories was the Bike Parade. All the kids would decorate their bicycles or trikes with ribbons, streamers, balloons and flags. They would then ride all together around the block in a parade!

My kiddo's are older now, so no more bike parades. Thankfully I have scrapbook pages to remind me of those precious memories. Hey, that gives me an idea...This July I'll have a Parade of Pages!

I've been super busy creating pages for upcoming events. I've been able to get out some older papers that have not seen the light of day and put them to use. Better to use them up now and make room for the new Close To My Heart products coming soon!!

Let's begin with some great "Summer" pages! This layout uses up some older Splendor paper and Stickease. Splendor was one of my favorite paper packs. I wanted so badly to hoard every last piece of it! Now they will be a great backdrop to some fun Summer Photo's.

Come back each day this month to see what pages I add to the Parade. Enjoy!