A Slice of Summer

In honor of the warm weather we've been having (and wishful thinking that it will last) I decided to offer up a fun reminder that summer is right around the corner.

The funniest thing about these photos is that my mom deliberately bought a watermelon not so that we could enjoy a nice refreshing treat on a hot summer day, but because she wanted to take some awesome pictures to scrapbook and thought a watermelon layout would be super fun.  So this was a staged event, and considering most of the kids didn't really care for watermelon, you'd never know it from the pictures.  But mom was right, and the page was really fun to put together!

This is a fairly simple page, and I love using small pictures of everyone individually whenever I can. I was sure to include the story of how the watermelon eating fest came to be too--a very important part!

For my title I used some rub on letters and small metal letters from Provo Craft.  The word "summer" was made on the computer using WordArt--I spelled out the word and printed it three different times on three different colors of paper and then cut them out, slicing the letters up to get the different parts of the watermelon.  Then I glued them on white background and cut them out by hand (This was in the days before Cricut--it would be a lot easier now, as long as I had the right font!)

These little slides were made using a technique my sister picked up at a local scrapbooking store.  The clipart images were printed on a transparency, then while the ink was still wet, covered in embossing powder and embossed.  It's hard to tell they are shiny in this picture, but they are.  Until I went searching for this page, I had forgotten all about this little trick, so now I need to do it again!  The shiny stuff on the front of the slides are microbeads.  These happen to be staying on well, although I haven't always had that kind of luck.

So there you have it...my personal invitation for summer to begin.  As sure as I sit here typing it will probably be snowing tomorrow...