Using a Sick Day :)

My sweet baby and I both have pretty nasty colds. And so we stayed home from church today so that we wouldn't spread our germs or catch any new ones. :) Since I was home all day and Gary was actually sleeping most of the afternoon, (yes, the angels were singing Hallelujah!) I decided to work on my wedding album. Yes, you read that right, wedding album. I am notoriously slow in part because I am a perfectionist. And a wedding album should be the very epitome of perfection, right? So there are now four pages compete and one page just awaiting journaling. I don't have the right color pen yet. (Time for a trip to Scrappin' Time!)

Here are the pictures. I hope you'll enjoy! :) It's not for Spread the L-O-V-E and it's not Charming Academy related, but since it is me essentially writing my own fairy tale, it still fits in on this blog. :)

I actually did this page quite a while ago (like a year and a half ago). But it's the first page of the album and it's pretty so I thought I'd share it anyway. I love illumination and since I kind of had a fairy-tale/stars theme for my wedding, I thought this would be the perfect place to use it.  So I used the computer to write out the words (my handwriting isn't anywhere near that good) and traced them onto the paper.

It's hard to see, but I traced the edges of our names with a glitter pen to give it sparkle.
Then I added the flair to the sides.

The flowers around the "O" are the same that were in my wedding bouquet: lavender, blue stephenotis, lavender and white roses. 

I'm not doing the pages in any particular order. Just whichever pictures inspire me. So first I did some of the landscape-y pictures. I loved the butterfly picture from Grandma Pollmann, and so had to make that part of the pages.

The left-hand page.

I love my stamp set "Butterfly Wings" from Close to my Heart. With the butterfly picture, this seemed to be the perfect message to add to the page. (It says "Love is like a butterfly. It goes where it pleases and pleases where it goes.")

The journaling.

More close-up on the other page.

This is the second set of pages I got done today. I fell in love with a lot of the wrapping paper my wedding presents came in. And so naturally, I saved it! :) On these pages, I used a rose motif wrapping paper for accents.

Close-up on the right-hand page. I debated using the same color as the other page, but really loved this periwinkle color.  These pictures are of the detail on the train of my dress. The blank spot is where the journaling will be as soon as I have the right color pen to do it in.

The left-hand page. Thank you so much to Linda Goold for giving me these beautiful purple and blue flowers! They made the perfect accent and helped tie the two pages together. :)

The flowers and a better picture of the wrapping paper accent.

I want to carry the font used in the title page throughout the  album. I considered illuminating this as well, but decided against. Instead, I added the little rose and flourish below to add color and definition. This also uses the glitter pen.

The flowers on the left-hand page.

Anyway, these are the pages that I've gotten done. I've still got tons of pictures left to put in, but I've at least got it started. Hopefully I'll have some more time to work on this. :) Tell me your thoughts!