Monday, July 16, 2012

Road Trip!

I have two posts up today, if you are looking for the BBTB2 challenge click here.

Hi all my crafty friends, Brenda here and it is time for another Sweet Sassy Diva challenge.  We were given the challenge of doing a project with the theme "vacation".  Well last August dear husband and I just got into our car and started driving west.  We had no plans, didn't know where in the heck we were going to go or what we were going to see.  It was the best trip I've ever had! lol  To begin with we haven't been anywhere just the two of us in a long, long time.  I can say we had a blast and I hope that we can do it again sometime.  So since this was a special trip, I decided to make a mini album of the places we went and the things we did.  I started out designing my mini on my Gypsy.  I went with the interstate sign from the solutions cart, Street Signs.  I put the shadow on my mat and I put the sign on as well.  I welded letters into each part of the sign by hide/contour part of it. So I put Lawrences in the top half, and Road Trip into the lower half so it would cut out. Then I cut my front and back covers using chipboard, ok, it is the back of a paper stack. lol Those and cereal boxes make great chipboard!! After cutting out my shadow shape, I cut my pieces in the colors: black, red, and blue and attached them to my front cover.





Here is what the front cover looks like.  I added 12 pages into this mini, if I need more I will just add more.  But this gives me 24 pages to document our trip on.


I started my first page off with a state map of PA from 50 States and the  map badge from Campin' Critters.  I thought that I would put a state map in for each state we went into and what we did there. My title, destination? unknown came from Art Philosophy.


Some close ups:



I hope that I've given you some inpiration today.  Please stop in at Sweet Sassy Diva and check out what else my design team sisters have for you this week!!




6 comments:

DonnaMundinger said...

Darling album. So much fun for documenting your adventure. I sure wish we could be that spontanious. xxD

magicwanda said...

Oh Brenda how cool is that.....
I always loved that cut and it is great for a mini.
Hugs

Suzanne cricutcraftingrammyblogspot.com said...

Love the cover Brenda and this is going to be so great to document your trip with the Dman. I love that you made it the road sign shape.

Tammy said...

Now that is soooo Awesome Brenda. I bet you had a blast on your trip. Unplanned trips are the best cause you have no schedule to stick to. LOL LOVE THE ALBUM.

TerriK said...

I love your album, Brenda. I like how you used a road sign for your road trip.

The Queen (Laura) said...

I love the album! The road sign is awesome! I'm so glad you guys had a wonderful time. Great job my friend!