Wedding Pictures

Over 1000 pictures were taken during 

Christopher's and Kara's wedding. 

Here is a sample for you to check out. 

All the photos were taken by Katya Nova Photography. 

It was a beautiful day, full of love and joy!

Now I have to sort through all these pictures and 

start on the scrapbook!

Thanks for stopping by and have a blessed day.

Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

Our family spent a few days down in the Dominican Republic, celebrating our sons marriage. Here is a little pictorial review of the resort we stayed at.  It is called Dreams Palm Beach Resort .  You can click on the name to go see some fabulous pictures.

We stayed in a garden view/double room.  There was three of us in the room, so they provided us a twin bed.  The bed are only full size, but very comfortable.  The best part about this room was that it was air conditioned! They came in and turned down your bed each night and gave you the next days schedule of activities.   

All the rooms surrounded some very nice pools.  They had activities through out the day to keep people busy.  The water was very warm.

There was plenty of shade for you hide in from the strong Dominican sunshine. 

The pools had shelves so you could sit in

 the water and relax!

They had their own private beach.  You could borrow kayaks, snorkel gear, and sail boats.  We did some snorkeling right in the swimming area.  You can see some pics from that adventure HERE.

The best place to hide from the sun was under these grass huts.  The temperature was at least ten degrees cooler under here.  Did I mention it was HOT in the DR. 

 I thought I was going to melt.   

Another way to cool off was to drink smoothies from the bar.  You could swim right up and order a fruity drink.  Here I am double fisting some drinks to keep us cool.

That about wraps up our time at the hotel. Next time I will share some pictures about the wedding. 

 I didn't take too many pictures.  I wanted to be in the moment and not behind the lens.  

So I am patiently waiting 

for pictures from the photographer. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a blessed day.  

Wedding Smash

 I have added a few more pages to my wedding Smashbook.  It is real fun looking back 29 years and remembering that special day.  Who am I kidding, I don't remember the details, but I remember marrying my best friend. 

 Notice my fist in the upper picture.  I think I must have been worried about Michael smashing the cake in my face.  

I made this page in the front of the book.  I thought it would be interesting to remember what was going on back in 1984. 

Thanks for checking out my pages.

Have a blessed day. 

The Finished Album

Wow, I finally got this video made and loaded.  

Thank you Matthew for your help!!!!  

I have completed Matthew and Sarah's wedding album.  It has been a year long project.  Sorry for the blurry pics, not sure why that happened.  

Wedding Week!

 It is wedding week in the scraproom.  I made the title page for Matthew's and Sarah's Wedding album.  This is one of my favorite photos of them on their special day.  

I love when I find the perfect paper for pictures.  When I found this carnival paper I knew exactly what I was going to us it for.  I love all these pictures! 

 Not sure why I printed all these dancing pictures, so I used my pocket pages to get them into the album fast!  

OK, now onto a new project I am working on.  I was digging through a box and I found the proofs from MY wedding.  Back in the day of film, photographers gave you a stack of pictures to look through and choose the ones you wanted to print.  All of those pictures are sealed in an album.  So I decided to make a fun smashbook from the leftover prints.

I began the album with two pictures of us as kids.  I can't believe I am sharing this online,ugh.  I look like such a dork.  It was the 70's and I bet I thought I looked fab!

Sorry for the blur, phone camera!

 Look at us, were in a glass!  Boy the technology was so awesome back then!

I don't think I have enough pictures to fill the book,  

so I am thinking I may add a few of my kids 

wedding pictures to this book also.  

Thanks for stopping by..............

Have a blessed day!

Wedding Layouts

I am working on the "Wedding Album"  this week.  

Here is my beautiful daughter in law getting 

ready for the ceremony

I pulled out my new hexagon punch, washi, flowers and my scraps.

 I didn't use any sketches for these layouts.  I am trying to use up all my scrap from my Summer Fresh PP's, so I need to be more creative in my design.  

Thanks for stopping by and have a blessed day!

Wedding Layouts

I have been slacking in getting the wedding layouts finished.  So I played catch up this week and made four layouts.  

.I love the reflection of the guys in the pool!  

 The girls are so colorful and fun!

 Love this adorable carnival themed cake.  It was yummy too!

They played the Shoe Game.  It was fun watching them answer the questions.  I made a short list of some of the questions on a tag and tucked it behind a photo.  

The album is coming along nicely.  They just celebrated their 1 year anniversary.  Maybe I will have it done by next years anniversary.

Thanks for stopping by and have a blessed day!

The Venue

Here is this week's wedding layout!  The wedding was held at an estate less than five minutes from our home.  The barn was a perfect spot for a carnival themed wedding.

 I used a sketch from Let's Scrap!

I made a cloud template with my Cricut.  I used white ink to create a cloud background.  I wanted to

 imitate the clouds in the photos.

Then I made a sign similar to the one in the picture and attached balloons.

 

Here are some more close-ups of the layout.

 Thanks for stopping by and have a blessed day!

Here Comes The Bride

Just a quick post to show you the wedding 

layout I made this week.  

 All the bridesmaids and grooms men danced down the aisle with bubble guns.  So FUN!

 

Sorry for the blur but I cropped a phone picture.  I love the bubble as they walk down the aisle.  I had to raise one of the photos to cover up the back of a bald guys head.  

Thanks for stopping by!