My last Egypt page

Told you I'd come back to the Luxor Museum page. :) Just like the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, we weren't allowed to bring in a camera, so I had to make do with postcards. Here it is:

Credits: Mother Nature kit from Scrap Matters. Cartouche alpha by Suzanne C. Walker. Palm tree from Road to the Oasis kit by Kyra.

Download Template #52 here.

The temples on the East Bank (double pager)

On our last full day in Egypt, we saw the two temples on the East Bank of Luxor. They were both incredible! I have so many pictures, it was hard to choose. So, I made templates that accomodate a lot of photos. Here are my layouts:

Credits: Mother Nature kit from Scrap Matters except palm tree which came from Road to the Oasis by Kyra and the scarab heiroglyph which I made from a postcard. The font that I use for journaling (someone asked the other day) is Jayne print from Font Garden.

I didn't make templates for the Karnak Temple layouts because they're so straight forward. Let's just say I'm getting tired of working with the same kit after 22 pages and I couldn't come up with any more brilliant ideas. :)

However, I really like the templates that I made for the Luxor Temple LO's. Hope you like them too. :)

Download Template #50 here. (Can you believe I've made 50 templates in less than 3 months?!)


Download Template #51 here.

Medinet Habu, page 2

I didn't really make this a 2-page template even though it goes with yesterday's LO, so I didn't post them together. :) Isn't this picture amazing? You almost have to know that Catie and Nick are at the bottom of the picture, or you would totally miss them. :)Credits: Mother Nature kit by Scrap Matters.

This template is more of an idea of how you could put together your own page than it is a template. Of course you can download and use it, though. :)
Download Template #49 here.

Medinet Habu

I love this layout. :) I loved Medinet Habu, too. It's a temple that was built by Ramses III. Can you believe how colorful the walls are even after 3,000 years?
Credits: Mother Nature by Scrap Matters.Download Template #48 here.

More on Luxor's West Bank

There were tons of alabaster "factories" in Luxor. Seriously, one every ten feet. Our driver took us to one, where we like to think that we got good deals, not that we lined his friend's pockets. :) They were very nice about entertaining the kids so that we could take a look around, and they gave us a nice demonstration on how they make alabaster jars.

Credits: Mother Nature kit from Scrap Matters.

Download Template #47 here.

The Colossi of Memnon

We went to see the sites on the West Bank on our second day in Luxor. (I just realized that I skipped a day in my scrapbooking because we went to the museum, and again we weren't allowed to take our cameras in. I scanned in the postcards that I bought. I'll have to get back to those later.) Anyway, this was the first thing we saw. It was crazy. We just pulled over to a small parking lot on the side of the road, and there they were, the Colossi of Memnon. Amazing! Look at the tiny people at their feet. :)
Credits: Mother Nature kit from Scrap Matters.

The vines on the template are a brush that I got from deviant art, but they don't have the designer's name on them. Sorry to that designer for not giving credit.
Download Template #46 here.

Egypt--Page 13

Can you believe I'm on page 13, and I just now made it to the half-way point of our vacation?!

We had so much fun in Luxor. If you ever go to Egypt, I would recommend that you go to Cairo, because you have to see the pyramids, but only for a couple days. Spend the rest of your vacation in Luxor or Aswan. Luxor was so much more peaceful and beautiful. Even the waiters were friendlier. :) Here are the twins at the hotel restaurant where we ate breakfast every morning.

Credits: Mother Nature kit from Scrap Matters

Tip for the template: The large strip across the bottom of the photo is a place marker for a ribbon wrap. Delete it and put a ribbon there. As always, the flowers are also place holders. Do yourself a favor and delete those too so that you can put better flowers there. The bracket and the punched frame on my LO came from the Mother Nature kit, but I tried to simulate them in the template. Replace them or fill them with paper, up to you!

Download Template #45 here.