Yay! Its finally finished! Go me! I am so excited about getting it done. The trip was awhile ago, and I have been working on it for about a month now. Its really fat! I used a mixture of different things, and a ton of photos...and definitely memorabilia heavy. The cover is actually a place mat that I bought there, and cut to size. I've been holding onto that thing since the trip!! See honey, some things I hoard will get used somehow! ;0)
TO VIEW THE WHOLE ALBUM: HERE
Here is the list of the products I used:
washi tape (Pretty tape, Cute tape, Making Memories)
Fab rips (Studio Calico)
plastic place mat (purchase at a gift store in Kauai and I cut to size)
pattered paper + some embellies ( Studio Calico, Making memories, Hambly, American Crafts)
fabric material/paper/envelopes( bought from etsy and Paper Source)
stamps (Studio Calico, Ali Edwards, cats life press )
Embossing powder ( Zing AC) , versamark ink andstazOn ink)
paper/felt flowers (Making Memories )
paper lace cardstock (the hawaiian flowers lace paper on the back of album- KI memories)
embellishments/stickers (etsy, AC, October Afternoon, Prima, other)
embroidery thread + needle ***Thank you Melissa for helping me with this. I was out of town and didn't have access to the class video and my cousin Melissa ROCKS it in the stitching department!! (Btw,TAKE a class to learn how I did the word stitching HERE. Amy is so talented + inspires me so much that I want to do more stitching on my layouts!)
postcards (bought in Kauai)
alphas (Studio Calico, AC Thickers, Sassafras, Jenni Bowlin)
Border punches (ek success)
kraft card stock (Stampin up)
If you have any questions about what I did, how I did something, or product(s)...please ask away in the comments section :)
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On the journaling for the last pages (img # 71)
The last day. Our flight didn’t leave until 9 pm. The sun had finally come out after a couple of days of rain. So what better way to kill time than to hang out on the beach? Had a lot of fun but certainly a bittersweet trip for me. This may just be the last time I come to Kauai. Too many memories from a past trip...makes it too painful for me. We'll see. Good thing there are other islands...
Thank you to my awesome and wonderful Dad for this trip. I can’t wait to come to the islands with you again!
Thank you to my twin cousin for coming with me. Lots of laughs + silliness, tears shed by me, and the comfort you were to me on this trip. Had so much fun with you!
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Journaling for the very last page (img #74) :
Home will have to wait:
We were in the air yesterday when we were rerouted to San Francisco - about an hour from Portland-we would have to stay the night in SF. Got to the airport and while we were waiting for our luggage, I told my cousin to go upstairs to the airline ticket counter and get our hotel + meal vouchers. Good thing because when she came back down and said that there was a LINE -of about 200 people and she was the 5th one waiting. HA! Lucky us! So we have been up since 3 am. I have been running on 6 hrs of sleep for the past 38 hrs or so. I've stopped counting! Anyways we get on the 6 am flight, leave about 30 min late and then about 20 min before landing in PDX, the captain said we had to turn around and go back to SF because of the weather in PDX. It kept changing from snow to freezing rain and the runway people couldn't keep up with the treatments of keeping the runway clear and de-iced. So we went back to SF and hung out on the airport floor for a few hours. Changed our flight time 3 times and right now we have just boarded. Hopefully it'll be the saying-3rd times a charm! Lol now I just have to worry about driving 3+ hours on the mountain with the crazy drivers and snow and ice. Might wait til tomorrow. Also, my car that has been sitting at long term parking -outside in the snow and freezing rain. Hopefully we can get the doors open lol oh and hope my feet don't freeze considering I have on flip flops still. ;) blog you later with a update! Gotta go - about to take off! Ps this is the scene that we have been looking at for the past few hours.
Sent via BlackBerry as written on my blog.
Well there you have it! Hope you like!! :)
so fun and fabulous!! love the way it turned out and i am SO happy you enjoyed my class!
Posted by: amy tangerine | April 21, 2011 at 02:24 PM
I found your post through a retweet by Ali Edwards and I have to say I LOVE IT! I scrolled through all of the photos you uploaded and got a knot in my stomach and a wave a homesickness! I was born and raised on Kauai and moved a little over a year ago...thank you for sharing your memories! I recognize the postcards and all the places you photographed!
Posted by: Kanani | April 21, 2011 at 04:39 PM
beautiful job! looks so fun!
Posted by: Krystal | April 22, 2011 at 07:09 AM