(Anniversary album cover) |
Background - when Jarad and I got married we had nothing, I mean, really less than nothing, so an anniversary present on year #1 was kinda out of the question. I decided to make an album as my gift since I already had scrapbook supplies - and if I recall correctly, I think my mother probably purchased the album for me and the paper too. To start off, I made a title page with our new shared last name and then a page that was a year in review kind of theme. (Note: to date the entire album has used Basic Grey products.)
Brace yourself here are years 1 -7:
I keep all of our anniversary cards in between the pages |
I was about three years behind on my anniversary album and in keeping with my finishing up projects plan, I decided to just sit down and start working on picking pictures - those pages weren't going to make themselves! Then I pulled out my basic grey stash and started to work on picking out papers and setting myself up to work on these pages. I took about two weeks from start to finish since I had very little time in my scraproom - but I am happy to report the last three years are complete and in the album. Here they are: