A few new pages to share...

Wow, two posts in one day!!!

I just wanted to share a few more "paper" pages that I've done since I've been home. These are all from one day on our Honeymoon in 2006 in Prague, Czech Republic. We were visiting the "Little Quarter" where we saw the beautiful Church of St. Nicholas & the beautiful & odd gardens of Wallenstein Palace.

Wallenstein Palace - Czech Republic

I wanted to share the newest paper layout that I did today of our Honeymoon trip to the Czech Republic in 2006. This is of the beautiful Wallenstein Palace. I am loving having all of my paper supplies back (in addition to all the new ones that I bought when I went scrapping shopping with Laura & Jamie!).

Charles Bridge

I just wanted to share this layout that I did with my Rusted Glow kit available below.

This is a picture of Charles Bridge in Prague, Czech Republic, that we took on our Honeymoon in 2006. This was at 4 in the morning as that is the only time that the bridge was empty. During the day, the bridge is filled with people and street vendors.

Hrad Karlstein

Today will be the last installment of scrapbook pages from our honeymoon last year ( you now have seen all 12 that are done... with lots left to do). We'll start to post in a week or so with new pictures from this years travels.

About 30 kilometers (or about 19 miles) from Prague is the Hrad Karlstein (Karlstein Castle). We took a morning train from Prague and visited this beautiful castle and cute little village.

{Click on photos to enlarge them to read journaling}

Papers: DCVW neutrals & DCWV Old World & digital journal
Alpha: Maroon paper
Template: Unknown author of 4sketch06232006

Here is a little history of the castle (courtesy of http://www.hradkarlstejn.cz/home1/)

High Gothic castle founded in 1348, which has a unique position among Czech castles. It was built by Czech King and Roman Emperor Charles IV as a place for safekeeping of the royal treasures, especially Charles's collection of holy relics and the coronation jewels of the Roman Empire. The first stay of Charles IV in the castle is documented in 1355 when he came to supervise the building works as well as the decoration of interiors, especially the castle chapels. The construction of the castle was finished in 1365 when the Chapel of the Holy Cross situated in the Great tower was consecrated.

At the outbreak of the Hussite wars the castle became the place for safekeeping of the Czech coronation jewels, which were kept here, with the exception of several short-time breaks, for nearly 200 years. The castle was reconstructed in late Gothic style after 1480 and in Renaissance style in the last quarter of the 16th century. The present appearance of the castle comes from the last reconstruction, which was carried out in the purist neo-Gothic style by architect Josef Mocker at the end of the 19th century.

Very impressive is the original step-like order of buildings. From the Well tower and Burgrave's palace located as the lowest you walk up to the majestic five-storied Imperial palace and further up towards the Marian tower. And finally at the top of the headland stands the monumental 60m high and separately fortified Great tower.

Here is another great site for some more information: http://www.zamky-hrady.cz/2/karlstejn-e.htm

Karlov Most {Charles Bridge} - July 17, 2006

While we were still jet lagged, we decided to get up before sunrise and go over to Karlov Most (Charles Bridge) that connect the Hradcany (Castle) district with Old Town over the Vlatva river. It was quite an interesting journey as we walked across town. We found out that at 3:30 in the morning, the bars were still going strong and didn't actually close until around 4:30. I'm sure most of you have heard the story of the bilingual lady of the night that we encountered.

We decided that the only way that we would get good pictures of this beautiful pedestrian only bridge would be to go when the masses of people were not awake. There were only a handful of other photographers and some very drunk people around so we were able to get some spectacular shots of the bridge and its statues. Angela also took some pictures of her favorite street on Kampa Island from the bridge.

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Papers: DCVW neutrals & DCWV Old World & DCWV Luxury
Alpha: Font (printed digitally)
Elements: Photo corners, flowers, brads, chalk & inking for photo mats
Template: Scrapmaps 04 by ditzy scrap

Couple more honeymoon layouts to share...

Here are a couple more photos from July 16 in the Hradcany district in Prague. Again these two pages are paper pages and not digital (I scanned into Photoshop and merged them).

These photos are from the castle. The large red roofed pink building is the actual castle itself. We are able to tour a terrific museum in it. The other photos show Matt in front of one of the castle garden doors, details on the corner of one of the buildings, a view of Prague from the castle walls and Angela enjoying the view.

Papers: Provo Euro Vintage & Velum for journaling
Alpha: paper with glitter ink outline
Elements: Photo corners, flower, brad
Template: Chris Greiser http://sketchmeifyoucan.blogspot.com/

We also visited Kampa island (the first picture on the left and the top right picture).

Papers: Provo Euro Vintage & Velum for journaling
Elements: Photo corners, flowers, brads, ribbon with stamping, buttons
Template: Chris Greiser

And yet more Honeymoon Photos....

These are from the first couple of days that we ventured out in Praha (Prague, Czech Republic). We visited the Hradcany (Castle) district and St. Vitus cathedral over the first couple of days. We walked tons and of course got used to the Metro (subway) there. The Hradcany district is across the river Vlatva so the Metro actually goes under the river (pretty cool).

Our loft was in the middle of Winceslas Square just outside of Old Town and several Metro lines intersected there so it was easy to move around the entire city.

This layout shows a view of the Hradcany district from across the river and a close up of St. Vitus's Bell tower (that we climbed with several hundred other people in a very tight spiral staircase).

Papers: DCVW neutrals & DCWV Old World & Velum for journaling

Alpha: Pink chipboard
Elements: Photo corners, flowers, brads, chalk, ribbon
Template: by Becky Fleck - See scrapmaps link in side bar
Photos by us

This layout shows pictures inside the bell tower and also pictures taken from the top overlooking Praha and the river Vlatva that flows right through the middle of town.

Papers: DCVW neutrals & DCWV Old World & Velum for journaling

Alpha: George cartridge by Cricut
Elements: Photo corners, flowers, brads, chalk, ribbon, eyelets by various artists
Template: by Becky Fleck (upside down) - See scrapmaps link in side bar
Photos by us

New Honeymoon Layouts – Pages 3 & 4 – Travel & Recovery Days

I think I might actually get these uploaded today, I've been trying (unsuccessfully) for 3 days now. Here are the next couple of pages from our honeymoon last year. Mostly just talking about the travel and our little loft in Prague.

See the post below for full credits. Remember that you can click on the pictures and a larger version will appear.

Honeymoon Pages!!!

Well, I've finally got them scanned in and merged (since my scanner does not do 12x12). I used a new feature in Photoshop CS3 to auto align the images and then auto blend them and it didn't do too bad of a job. This album is quite different for me as I'm doing it all in 2 page layouts.

Keep in mind, these are all done with paper and digital photos and journaling. I used DCWV's Neutrals, Luxury, & Old World papers in addition to Provo's Euro Vintage papers. I also used the new Cricut cartridge "Going Places" for lots of the embellishments. There are tons of other embellishments used such as flowers, brads, ribbons, etc. so email me if you want any details on any of them.

These are the first two pages that I did as an overview of our trip. I'll try to post a couple more each day until we leave.

Honeymoon pictures (At last)

I've been wanting to start the honeymoon scrapbook for quite a while and actually got to last night. This scrapbook will be done with paper instead of digital so I'll have to be scanning in the pages for you. I thought that I'd start by sharing the 17 pictures that will make up the first two pages (overview of our trip).

Enjoy!!!