Save the best for last

The last section of this book was for our stay at the Great Wolf Lodge. This was defiantly the highlight of my time out in Kansas. Great Wolf is a hotel with a large indoor water park. Because we spent so much time in the water I didn't get a ton of pictures.

The first page of this section is very basic. Its just a matte page with some pictures on them

Because I still didn't want to go back to the accordion fold but also didn't want to do the book directly again I did this split page book. That opens into a large image of the park. I also used one of the wrist bands that allows you to enter the park as an embellishment for this page.

So this is what the book looks like when its closed and finished.

T-Rex Cafe

There is a T-Rex Cafe here in Orlando, however I have never been there before. We decided to go there and check it out one day and we were really excited about the giant sandy play area with the dinosaur. We spent hours in there just playing in the sand pit.

I really was getting bored with all the accordion fold pages here and I wanted to do something really different. One night when I was falling asleep I remembered a project I saw in a magazine by Graphic 45. It was a "People I Love Book" and in that book they had a book within the book. When I remembered this I decided it would be a great idea to do something a bit different in my project. For this I continued to make my own two sided paper and I used a Jolie's dinosaur sticker that I found.

On the back of this piece of chipboard I had one more picture of my daughter. This is one of my favorite pictures of my daughter.

Paradise Park

Paradise Park is great place for kids which is down past Kansas City. They have a play place for kids 8 and younger that has a ball pit, huge lego's, a large pretend area with a grocery store, bank and pizza parlor in it, a water table and playgrounds out side. There is also more but it would take forever to list! There is also stuff for older kids like a rock wall, go carts, foam factory, etc. This would be an amazing place for a birthday party! 

This page I used another accordion page made from scraps but I used the wrist bands that they gave my kids as like an embellishment. 

Exotic Petting Zoo

So in the Power and Light District of Kansas City once a month they have a family festival to encourage families to spend time together. The month we were out there they had an "exotic" petting zoo. The most exotic animals there were the kangaroo and the zebra but it was still a very fun day.

On the chipboard pages I kept the design very simple and just used a small decretive flourish that I tinted green using the distress inks.

I had some scraps from previous pages that I made so rather than wasting them I just made small accordion pages with them. This worked well because of the wallet sized photos I used. I also took some hemp rope that I had and used a small hole puncher and added a decretive element to the edge of the page. That small braiding took FOREVER to do!

A day at Fort Leavenworth

The day we went to Leavenworth we had to pick my husband from Fort Leavenworth where he was working as an intern. That evening he had a soft ball game and the following pages came from this event while we were out there.

I kept this chipboard page pretty basic, just distressing around the edge of it. I added the green ribbon as just a fun accent to the page.

 Because the I liked the other accordion page so much, I created the following accordion page. However I didn't want this one to be the same as the last one so instead of it pulling out to the side I created it to pull downward.  Once again I made my paper two sided by gluing two pieces of paper together.

Leavenworth

So, for this project I decided to group my photos by events that we did while we were out in the Kansas City area. This series of photos is from the Leavenworth, KS area which is the first city of Kansas. So for a lot of these photos I made it antique or black and white. This was honestly one of my favorite days while we were out there.

This page is pretty basic. I did take the larger photo on the bottom and made it into a pocket and added a journaling tag. 

I wanted to keep this page like a post card. I had some tape with stamp like images on it and thought that it would go with the post card theme.

This is the back of the post card page.

This is a large journaling tag that I had used one of the Tim Holtz Distressing techniques on it and added photos on the front and back.

For this page I have a set of paper called a "Matte Pad" they are typically used to easily frame a photo on a typical scrapbook page, I thought it would be a good place to add some of my larger photos that I didn't have room for.

This is a brochure from Historic leavenworth. I used the Vintage Photo distress ink on the inside to make the color more antique and added one last photo of Leavenworth. 

Progress

It has been a while since I posted anything because my kids came home and work on this project had to stop until the evenings. Last night I got a really good chunk of things done and I like how most of it turned out. I am also having fun coming up with different ways to make sure I can incorporate all the pictures I had printed.

This is the inside of the front cover, it is collaged with pictures from the Kansas City Zoo.

Because I had a lot of pictures from the zoo I decided to make an accordion fold to put some of the pictures on so that I don't run out of room. I had to make this into double sided paper by cutting a 12 x 12 sheet down and gluing it in half.

To complete the zoo photos I used another page of the chipboard book and used a brochure from the zoo as a pocket and then put a copy of the map into it and two tags that I used the distressed inks on them and put the last remaining pictures onto them. I also had some little trinkets so I used them as decorations on the tags.

I distressed the brochure that is the pocket with a pair of scissors to make it fit into the book better.