2009!

Now that we are half-way through 2009 I thought it would be a good time to get my title page for my album finished! LOL. If you were to open the last 4 albums I have completed there would only be ONE with a title page in place! Even if I am only half-way through an album when a new year rolls around, I like a little place marker put in where each year starts. (No I don't mind having 2 years rolled into one album...that's just how I roll. But they do look really nice when each year has it's own album!) When I first took up this hobby in 1998...I had so many albums in the first couple years done I started calculating how many albums that was going to be in the next 40 years. I decided that I would try to focus on quality instead of quantity. (Really with no kids and not too much to scrapbook at the time...I had resorted to making layouts of my dog eating watermelon! And NO I am not kidding!) Even though my dog WAS really cute eating watermelon slices...those aren't the pages that will be my prized possessions! And unless I wanted to have a room dedicated to just holding scrapbooks it really wasn't feasible to have them all out and accessible.

Here is my 2009 title page! (The Sassafras number chipboard was just too perfect for it!)
The Hambly camera rub-ons and SL patterned paper also are included in our July kit!
This lil' monkey is from an Elsie Cake stationary kit I bought last year that was full of sock monkeys. The rub-ons are Basic Grey and the "Live Life" tag is from Old Navy! I hand painted the clouds with Making Memories "manila" paint.

I used a red Bazzill "bosher" as the 2nd "0" in 2009. (From our March 2008 kit!)

This strip of text is from the "Snorkel" Cosmo Cricket line also. I am now going to hunt down that layout of the dog eating watermelon...lol. Hope you have an inspired Wednesday!