-Sisters by chance, brides by choice. These one aren't specifically sister and bride ones, but maybe you could use them: - Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. (maybe you could change the last one- or use it for a shot of uncomfortable wedding shoes.) - More than a sister, more than a friend, Our love has no limit, our friendship no end. - Sometimes a library of words can't say what a hug from a sister can. This one might be cute if you have pictures of your mom helping you guys get ready: - Mom I'll always love you, but I'll never forgive you for cleaning my face with spit! Hope you can find something you can use. Here's a site with tons of sayings, too. I got these from there a long time ago and saved them. I haven't been there in a very long time so there may be some new ones. Happy scrappin'! -Sarah Here is a link that might be useful: Sawyer's sayings

In Michigan there is a store called Griffs Shortcuts. I have only been there once, but they do offer engraved albums. They have a web page. www.griffs-shortcuts.com They are in the process of moving to another location, but I think you will be pleased with their products.

I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but it's an idea. I have a hard time with pages like this when I sort of have a several page theme going, but don't really have any pre-made stickers, titles, or anything that fit the theme. I think that the CM basic layouts with the "shortcuts" stips of wavy paper and triangles in maybe blues, aqua, or varying shades of green and brown might work for a coherent theme throughout the book. They'd be generic enough to go from beginning to end without detracting from each phase of the process. If you wanted to dress it up a little bit, you could use the punch shapes (squares, rectangles, circles) and stickers for each phase to say something like "STEP 1 ...dig a hole". I probably wouldn't try to incorporate artwork unless you had something like cute stick people wearing hardhats doing the appropriate work and have those those little balloon thoughts coming out of their mouths. I also think these stickers would be cute on the pages if you embellished them. http://www.meandmybigideas.com/view.tpl?--eqMYskudatarq=SR-182&inc=style_1.inc I don't envy the pool process. My family built one when I was in high school. We did everything ourselves except dig the hole. It sounded fun for a while and then we learned we had to clean it everyday. Now that everyone has left home, my dad finally bought one of those vacuums that you can plug into the filter system so you have to manually vacuum. Good luck. Adella

I found some really great "calligraphy" pens at Michaels. I can't remember the name or brand, but they have a pen tip at either end...for a smaller and larger calligraphy look. You have to practice some to learn how to hold the pen but I really love the look much much better than my plain hand-writing (which I HATE when I journal). They provide a more personal touch (look) to the page then printing calligraphy style on the computer (which is also a nice idea). Like Jill, I usually like to matt what I journal, depending on the page. If your cousin just graduated from Med school, could you somehow incorporate something from her "soon to be profession"? Perhaps you could make (scrape) a nice looking professional business card with her name, the date she graduated, her title etc.? I'm not too up on graduating med students so maybe she has to complete her residency, but maybe you could include smaller photos of where she will work or complete her residency on the page (in the background or superimpose photos of her on top of these smaller ones)? For something a bit more comical, maybe you could get a photo(s) of her with friends or family "using" her medical tools from her black bag with a humorous title page or a funny lyric or poem? I love to matt a lot of my photos and I also love to try (try being the key operative word here)and make up poems or rhyme when I journal. I think you could have a lot of fun and still have some very elegant and "fun" pages. Good luck! Send us a link for your completed pages so we can save the ideas...I'll need one in about 14-16 years!