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October SSIB Reveal – Football and Pocket Page Layouts

Hi everyone – welcome to Lyne’s October reveal.  I was blessed to be inspired by both of our photos this month.  The first photo reminded me of Thanksgiving/Fall.  
Every Thanksgiving our local high school football team (where I attended) plays a game against the team across the river (where my husband attended).  We go every year Thanksgiving morning and these photos are from the first year we took our son.  He was a year old here.  We wanted to take him from the time he was born, but he was five days old and it was snowing the first year…not a good combo.  I don’t know why the bottom comes across cream.  The whole page is white, but in every photo I took it came out cream 🙁  I used a sketch from Queen & Co. to get me started on this layout.  
Challenge:
Paper Issues – Fall
The second photo had several different blocks to choose inspiration from.  
 The blocks inspired me to try a pocket page.   I used cards from Fancy Pants Be Different collection to make a page about our son getting all his baby curls cut off.  This is my first time photographing a pocket page, and boy was the glare awful…haha.  I also have to dig out the exact date to fill in the right pocket card.


Thanks for joining us and can’t wait to see what you create!

Chid’s Play Challenge – Cat In The Hat

Welcome to another fun reveal for Child’s Play Challenge.  We were asked this time to create layouts with the book Cat In The Hat as inspiration.
     We don’t read a lot of Dr. Suess around here for some reason so it took me a while to find my inspiration.  It was only after I realized the my nephew A’s favorite movie was The Lorax that it came together for me.  After that this layout only took about an hour to complete.
     I used the Hey Baby collection by Simple Stories for all the paper since they matched A’s shirt so well, but kept the look soft.
     The layout of the photo and embellishments was inspired by one of Stacia Brandt’s Queen & Co guest layouts.  She used circles, but otherwise the placement is very similar.
     I love how this came out and I placed it in a memory tray for my SIL to hang in her office.  I hope she love it too.  Come over and join our challenge with how this theme inspires you.  Until next…Keep Scrapping!

Best Day Ever Layout

     When I saw the new sketch over at Sketch~N~Scrap, and the Old Is New challenge at A Cherry On Top  I knew right away what products I was going to use, and even what pictures.  I think this was one of the fastest layouts I’ve ever done.  

   I used the Simple Stories Sn@p Him collection, and my first cut from my new Silhouette.  I don’t do pocket scrapbooking, but have several card collections to use for layouts like this. The chevron down the side is modeling paste mixed with some acrylic paint and put through a Tim Holtz stencil.  I need some practice on this technique, but I really love how it comes out, and the depth it gives my layout!
     I’ll be back soon with more new layouts.  Until then – keep scrapping!

Sketch~N~Scrap

Ray of Sunshine Layout

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     I had some fun pictures of our son playing at the beach…well as much playing as a nine month old does, but I was stuck on how to use them.  I then came across the Child’s Play Monopoly challenge, and the arrow on the go tile of the board hit me.  I was going to use arrows since in the pictures he’s upside down and sideways!
   I also wanted to use the new Inspired By challenge over at Sketch ~ N ~ Scrap.  It was an awesome sketch!

     The sketch only used one photo, but I wanted to use three so I grouped them all very closesly to achieve the same effect.  I also used my arrow strip to mimic the strip in the sketch, but also to place the round area at the corner of the photo just like the sketch embellishment. Some misting and enamel dots completed my sketch “copying”.
     If I was to do the layout again I think I would emboss the red paper (which is actually a red and brown tiny chevron) with swiss dots to match the outter dotted paper.  All in all I’m pretty pleased with how it came out.