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Sixtieth Birthday Family Layout

Hey crafty friends! I’m back with you today sharing the Sixtieth Birthday Family Layout for two challenges.  I used the bingo challenge from Redefined Kreative as well as the ocean theme from Challenge YOUrself.

For the bingo challenge you had three rows you could choose from.  All of them had things in common, but some had more challenging items like texture paste or wood veneer.  I choose the line with stickers, stamps, acrylic pieces, patterned paper, and ribbon.

Sixtieth Birthday Family Layout

This close up shows me as part of the requirement for Challenge YOUrself.  I am second from the left between my husband and my father.  This photo was taken when we all went to the beach for Dad’s 60th birthday.  My mom got everyone shirts that said Happy Birthday Dad, and then Dad’s said…I’m the dad.  We all wore them out to dinner and gave everyone good laughs.  We’ve also worn them for many years since.  Dad actually turned 70 less than two weeks ago…tells you how old this photo is!

Sixtieth Birthday Family Layout

In the above photo you can see the stamping at the very top of the strip next to the acrylic piece.  I also have a touch of stamping above my photo.  The every summer has a story is a sticker.  I took the sticky up and popped it up on craft foam.  I reach for my craft foam much more than pop dots anymore due to cost and easy of use.  I find it so much easier to cut a piece of foam and glue on than place a million pop dots and remove all their backings.  Last but not least is the ribbon I used through my tag.

Sixtieth Birthday Family Layout

I still have to add my journalling, but otherwise I’m please with how this came out. I’m also glad to have this photo documented after way to long.  I’m been working on going back to some of my older printed photos and have done a good job making a dent.  What are you working on lately?  Until next time…stay crafty.

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One Year Old Birthday Girl Scrapbook Layout

Hey crafty friends!  Welcome to another layout reveal!  This time I combined two things to create this one year old birthday girl scrapbook layout.  I used the tic tac toe challenge from my Southern Girls Challenge team, and the new A Moment in Time collection from my FabScraps team.  For me they combined to create a lovely layout for our girl.

One Year Old Baby Girl Scrapbook Layout

On the tic tact toe board the first line was bling, lace and white.  This photo shows you all of that in one shot.  I embossed the FabScraps piece with gold embossing powder, snipped it apart to use in two places, and back it in black…bling!  The doily is obviously white, and my background paper looks like lace.  I also have two other papers that look like they have lace on it behind the photo.

one year old baby girl scrapbook layout

I backed all my layers with black cardstock, and the layout as a whole, because it made it pop off the lace paper so nicely.  I also added more bling with gold enamel dots and gold ink.  The flower embellishments are form Hobby Lobby and I’ve had them in my stash for about two years so I’m not sure if they would be available still.  I really need to expand my stash of flowers as little miss gets older.

So for the final reveal….

one year old baby girl scrapbook layout

What do you think?  It’s adorable right!?  I hope you’ll head over to both the Southern Girls blog to check out the challenge, and to Fabscraps blog to see what all the other ladies have created with this collection.  Stay tuned to my youtube channel next week as I’ll have more projects shared there using this collection.  Until next time….stay crafty!

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Mommy and Me Scrapbook Layout

Hey crafty friends!  I’m so excited to be with you today as I’m sharing my first design team project for Scrap Our Stash. As their name implies they are all about getting those photos on a page using the stash you have!  Today I created a Mommy and Me scrapbook layout to go with the theme.

These are VERY old photos of our son and I  on the carousel at Sesame Place.  You can tell he loved it by his smiles, but it would be another three years before he wasn’t scared to go on again.  What the heck is up with that folks!

My papers are also from a super old collection from Echo Park.  It’s so old in face that I can’t find iron their website anymore.  The design is also a scraplift of my friend Stacia at the Dancing Daisy Designs.  She created die cuts for use on her page and really needs to start a blog again because she makes the best pages.

Now I’m sure you are wondering how I got my page from the challenge. I had never heard of, or seen, 500 Days of Summer before this challenge.  It wasn’t available on Netflix, or our local Redbox, so I went and read a synopsis online.  There wasn’t anything obvious jumping out at me for a layout so I went super simple and used the theme Summer.  I used a sun wood veneer as one of my embellishments to satisfy that part of the challenge.  Have you see the film?

Thank you for reading along and seeing how I completed this challenge, and I can’t wait to see how you do if you choose to participate.  Don’t forget to leave me a link if you do so I can be sure to comment.  Until next time….stay crafty!

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10 Month Baby Girl Scrapbook Layout

Hey crafty friends!  I’m back today with a layout for the Southern Girls Challenge.  It’s team Trace’s turn this time, but one of my fellow ladies had something come up, and I’m filling in for her to provide another piece of inspiration for our followers.  The challenge this time is a bit of flash, and I used that for create a baby girl scrapbook layout using our daughters ten month photos.

I am using bits from one of my Secret Not Secret Kit Club kits.  I did an unboxing when I received the kit if you are interested in seeing what I received.   The kit focused on the Cocoa Vanilla Bohemian Dreams collection, and by the time I got to this layout I didn’t have much left so I needed to be a bit creative.

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To stretch the little bit of paper I had left I added the scallop border.  The polka dot piece wasn’t quite wide enough on it own, but with the border it took up enough of the page that it didn’t look empty.  I also added some washi strips under the photo, and as the base of my cluster on the left.  They were the ride shades, and left my bits of paper for other uses.

Let’s also not forget to talk about the photo…can you handle that scrunchy face smile!  Our little girl was ten months old in these photos, and had just started walking.  Our photographer met us in the center square of our town and we got some great shots of her with the more prominent icons in the town.  In this photo they were playing peek-a-boo around a the column of an old house.  I can’t believe she’s two now!

Well friends,  I think that’s it for now.  I hope you love this page, and if you participate in the challenge be sure to leave me a comment below so that I can check your creation out.  Until next time…stay crafty!

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Double Page 12×12 Masculine Scrapbook Layout

Hey crafty friends!  Welcome to another layout share.  This time around I’m sharing something that isn’t normal for me.  I created a double page 12×12 masculine scrapbook layout with photos of my husband before we were married.  I rarely do double page layouts anymore, but I have a great sketch set, and tons of photos to get done quickly so it worked really well.

The layouts started with the right hand side of the page as it was more of an accent page to the first.  A solid piece of cream cardstock was used as the base, and then scraps I had left from the collection for the rest.  Since I had used so many photos I kept the embellishments very very simple to no make the page to busy.  The embellishment layers are actually from the collection, but I placed them strategically so you can only read the top one.

I often have trouble creating pages that have a theme when there are no supplies geared towards that topic. Here I created a double page 12x12 masculine scrapbook layout using supplies meant for Valentine's Day.

For the left hand page I went a little more all out since it was the focus of my story.  Besides using the same paper collection for both pages the polka dot strip at the top, as well as the scallop pieces, help to tie the pages together making them one story.

You can see where I chose to place my embellishments so I’ll tell you about the photos.  We enjoy Nascar races, and the Pocono track is only about an hour from our house, so before we were married we went once each year.  This was the race in August 2004…ten months before we were married.  Our 13th anniversary was yesterday, and it feels like these photos were just taken.

I often have trouble creating pages that have a theme when there are no supplies geared towards that topic. Here I created a double page 12x12 masculine scrapbook layout using supplies meant for Valentine's Day.

I hope you have enjoyed this double page layout because I can’t tell you when I’ll do another one…haha. Until next time…stay crafty!

 

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