Corrie Kinkel

I'll be there too, although like Ann (and Mary?) it is not for the first time. My photobook about my recent trip to California is almost ready, so time to start on something else and easy now. Well I just have sent my book to the printer's and I expect it back in maybe a week or so. There are made already a lot of nice layouts, to much to comment on and Ann congrats on another great-grand!!! Here I used a vibrant orange California Poppy to complement the oranges in the QP. It is already after midnight, so I'm of to bed!

The last of my intro pages for my photobook. We went to the Pacific and it was a very hazy day with almost no one on the beach except some people walking their dogs, as we were. It struck me how empty and endless the ocean was. In The Netherlands we also have nice and sandy beaches bordering the North Sea which is part of the Atlantic, but you are always seeing ships - big and small! Therefore I choose a photo that represented this feeling and left it quite empty. Now I can assemble my book and get it printed.

Yes this area is silicon valley and my daughter works for Apple and her husband for Amazon. They live, you may have guessed that from my layout, in Los Altos. One should think that the internet and other facilities in such an area are topnotch, but no they are very frequent without power! Very convenient if you work from home.........?

And one more for my book. This one is of the village and the surroundings where my daughter lives with the places we visited there like Stanford University! I kept this page in line with the others qua style and font to get a somewhat cohesive look for my book. Mary Solaas, thank you for the shield which I adapted for the road where I was. It made this page come together a bit quicker. I have one more to do and then I can assemble the book with all the individual photos and send it to the printer.

Susan I like your layout and your idea to take photos of your garagedoor and use it for an overlay I definitively must remember. We don't have a garage anymore but enough other suitable places like the gardenfence.

F = Faith

A = Ary or Aart, the name of my father

Mary I like this very much and will keep it in mind when I want to do another route map. I made my own interstate shield, but I like the other black ones for other roads too.

Thank you so much, the font on the datestamp is the same as on the text: Perfectly Vintages, a freebie from Creative Fabrica some time ago. I have a lot of their freebie fonts; I download what I like and when I'm doing a project like this it is great to have suitable fonts to use with the theme of that project.

The next one. I was working on another layout but I didn't like what I came up with and made this one instead. I didn't see the full extend of that glorious bloom, only the last of it when I arrived but I have taken so many flower photos that there will be a selection in my book. The background consists of 2 photos taken by my son in law when the family went to admire that bloom. I merged them together with a mask. The template of the State is by Marissa Lerin and I filled it with my own flowers. Carole's stamps template came again to good use as well as datestamp 12 script that I bought in the last birthday sale. Font is Perfectly Vintages that I use throughout this project .

U = Unique

This is my next intro page and it is about the weekend trip we took to Arizona because my son in law wanted to go to the Overland Expo! He went there for one and a half days and had the time of his life. My oldest granddaughter went with her dad for the first 1/2 day while the rest of us (my daughter, youngest granddaughter and I) visited the Museum of North Arizona that has an amazing art collection of the Hopi's, Navaho's, Apaches and other tribes. En route from the airport in Phoenix to Flagstaff we also visited Montezuma Castle, a big pueblo build inside a cave. The second day, son in law again to the Expo and the rest to the Grand Canyon, which is hardly to describe, spectacular!!!! The third day on our way back to Phoenix we visited Sedona and the Red Rocks, which were also very, very beautiful. Near Phoenix the highway is through the desert, another new experience for me. It were 3 days packed with so many new adventures and of course many photos to remember it all. This page took me a lot of time to do with all the tiny details. The font is Perfectly Vintage and photos are mine except the flyer of the Expo which I found on Google.

Q = Questions, my dad was always questioning me about what I had been doing during the day! Sometimes that could be annoying, especially when I was a teenager ?

O = Opa, that's Dutch for Grandpa and we also honor them to on father's day too

No I didn't do all of that, because I was there only for a day but I saw most of it any way My daughter doesn't live in the city, so we went there, it's about an hour by car but the traffic was very bad and it took us almost 2 hours to get to the Golden Gate bridge! Ater that, it happened to be mothers day, we had a crab lunch at Fishermans Wharf and we looked at all the activities there and then took a ride down Lombard street, the car just fitted and could do the serpentine road! Saw the cable cars and the painted ladies. Btw your tomato looks great!

Thank you ladies! Suzy of course there will be a date but not on every layout. I think I'll put the dates of my trip on the cover and/or first of the intro pages. Besides making my photobook I plan to use o lot of my photos in coming projects as well and the nice script of this week with the hanging photos is a candidate for some of my flower photos. But first my book!

Hi, I'm back from my journey to visit my daughter & co and have been reading all the comments in the different sections of the Campus for over an hour now, you all have been busy! I had a massive jetlag and although I attended the masterclass this Sunday I definitively have to rewatch it, nothing registered with me. I have had a great time and am starting to make a photobook as I did before. I'm going to make a scrapbook page as introduction to the different topics of the book. After each intro page comes the "normal" pages with all my photos and stories. I don't do all the pages as a scrapbook page, that would take me months to do and family and friends over here are waiting to see my book with all the photos! I'll show the different intro pages as I finish them in this section of the Campus; they are still in random order because for some I need to do an internet search. This time they are rectangles because my book will be a rectangle and this way they cover a whole page, which I regret not doing last year.

G = Generous

E = Energetic is a word that suited my father.

H = Happy, that's what we want to make our mothers!

I will follow your suggestion! I wanted to quickly make something for this challenge and it can be used on a later layout, so I was in a bit of a hurry ? Thanks for the good wishes and I'm like you, I always make notes and put things aside for a next trip.

Wednesday I'm leaving for 3 weeks to the USA to visit my daughter, son in law and the grandkids. I'm going for the first time to the Bay area of San Francisco where they are living now. We will certainly visit the city and see the Golden Gate bridge. My journey will give me great photo opportunities, at least I hope so, which will result in new layouts. Also we are going for a long weekend to see the Grand Canyon, I'm very exited! In preparation I made this tag in the State colors of California with a illustration of the bridge found on cleanping. It has place to put a date and then it will go on a layout. The coming weeks I won't be scrapping but once a while I will come here in the campus and on facebook to see what everybody is doing. See you all in June!!!

Sue I have seen more of your photos and layouts about this adorable voles and I like them all, but every new layout you do, makes me love them more. I have said it before but the nature where you live is stunning!

E = Everlasting love for the children

C = Chocolate hearts, that is what you can often see when searching for a gift.