Scrapbooking my trip to China

Wow!  I can't believe it's been around 3 months since I've had time to blog.  You would think that once my summer holidays started I would have had plenty of time!  I had to spend time cleaning out my spare bedroom/office/temporary stamp room to make room for stamping.  Then, I had to prep for a great stamping weekend in Olds last weekend.  That was awesome!  I actually got started on a few scrapbook pages.  If you've been following my blog, you probably realized that I don't scrapbook.  My sister forced me into it once when we did a family reunion scrapbook but that's it.  I don't scrapbook for myself.

During spring break, my husband and I went to China for 12 days with 3 teachers, 3 educational assistants and a trustee...my husband being the only guy in our small group.  However, when we got there, we were actually assigned to a specific bus of about 35 people and there were 4 buses altogether so he was never truly alone.  Anyways, many of us out of my small group, shared our pictures.  I ended up with about 1500 altogether probably.  I actually got my favorites printed out on Thursday (before the stamping weekend) and decided to take it with me.  If I got to it that would be great...if not...oh well.  lol.  Luckily, I was sitting across from a stamping queen.  She was making 3 books for her children so she was making 3 of every spread but she still managed to finish over 30 pages in the two days.  Wow!  She was very patient with me and willing to share advice and encouragement.  She also snuck in a few non-stamping up embellishments onto my table.  There was another woman beside me who had asian embossing plates and showed them to me when she saw me working on my pages.  Although they aren't SU either, I just had to borrow them as well!

SOOOOO, Stampin' Up! police...please be forgiving!  I know I'm not supposed to use any other company's products on my blog but I couldn't help myself.  I never do this but I just had to this time.

You'll also notice that I have retired paper on my pages as well.  I decided to try and use up some of my 12x12 paper designer paper and cardstock as I have a hard time using it.

So, if any of the above contraband bothers you, please stop reading now!

Please be gentle in your comments.  It's obvious I'm not much of a scrapbooker but I do think I will have to keep it up.  It was a lot of fun!  I managed to get 15 two page spreads and a title page done in 3 full days.  Oh, and I apologize that I didn't crop these photos.  I figured with all the photos that I took it would take forever to crop!  lol