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Hello Adventure Birthday Girl Scrapbook Layout

Hey crafty friends!  I hope the start of 2021 is treating you well so far.  I’m back sharing a new layout today for the Scrap the Girls Dead Men Tell No Tails Challenge. Despite the ominous name of the challenge I chose to great a hello adventure birthday girl scrapbook layout. The challenge was using the below image, and one could take inspiration as it struck them.

Scrap the girls inspiration image

The image for me gave me inspiration in three different ways.  The first was the color scheme.  I turned to my scraps of the very old Simple Stories collection called Vintage Bliss.  The collection had pink, aqua, yellow and green just like the above image.

The second way the image gave my inspiration was the flowing hair of the mermaid.  In the one picture our photographer captured out daughters hair is flowing straight out behind her as she played. The third way I received inspiration from the image was the wood of the boat.  I used this to use two wood veneer pieces for my title.

This 12×12 layout was also created using just scraps of a 6×6 paper pad.  I used a sketch from one Alison Davis’s sketchbooks that use only a 6×6 paper pad.  This particular sketch was even better as I was able to use just my scrap pieces and didn’t need full 6×6 sheets.  I didn’t have any embellishments left from this collection so I cut some butterflies from one of the papers, and used some bits and bobs from old Felicity Jane kits as well as some generic things like enamel dots and phrase stickers.

Hello Adventure Birthday Girls Scrapbook Layout

I hope you’ve enjoyed hearing and seeing my take on the challenge, and that is inspired you to play along as well.  If you do play along, please leave me a comment with you link so I can check your creation out as well.  Until next time….stay crafty!

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Happy Girls Scrapbook Layout

Hey crafty friends and Happy New Year!  I’m glad to be back sharing with you.  I know I say this every year, but I hope to be more consistent in posting this year.  It’s one of my goals every year honestly…to do more than the year before.  To start the year off right I’m sharing this Happy Girls scrapbook layout for the anything goes challenge at Challenge Yourself.

This layout is from a trip we took to Lancaster to see my sister.  One of our favorite places to visit is a local bakery that, besides having great baked goodies, has a place with animals you can feed, an awesome playground and some fun multi person swings.  I managed to grab a photo of our daughter on the loving the swings.  The other photo is of her, I and my sister. I tried to convince our son to get in the photo, but he was just to busy playing on the playground.

The papers that I used for this collection are from a VERY old Mind Minds Eye 6×6 paper pad.  It was from the sweetest things collection.  Back then they had one over arching collection name and them sub color ways underneath.  This one was the Bluebell collection, and as of when I’m writing this can still be found on ebay.

Since I only had the 6×6 pad left from the collection I needed to be creative in the way I used it to fill the page.  I started by cutting strips and piecing them together around the edge trying to line up the patterns to make the seams disappear.  I also pieced together two pieces to create the larger 8×8 square on the background.  The smaller pieces are 2×2 and then I used scraps behind my 3×4 photos.  It really was a layout that came together very quickly.

Well, I think that’s it for today. I’ve done website maintenance, cups, laundry, cleaning, shop posting, wholesale ordering, errands, schooling with big kiddo, legos with little kiddo and I’m sure things I’m forgetting….I’m beat.  A layout and a post to start the new year though…not to shabby.  I hope to be back with you soon.  Until next time…Stay crafty!

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Down Home Scrapbook Process Video

Did you know that in addition to scrapbook, making cups and being a wife and mother I occasionally upload my scrapbook creation process to youtube!? This layout documenting our visit to Neely’s Barbecue in Nashville has a video to go with it.

Down Home Scrapbook Process Video

I’d love if you’d join me and check it out.  Make sure to watch the whole way through I have have several questions I’d love to hear your answers too.

Adorable Daughter Scrapbook Layout

Hey crafty friends! Thanks for checking out my sharing of this adorable daughter scrapbook layout that I made for the sketch challenge over at Sketch N Scrap.  I know I’m getting in here right at the end, but that’s how it works now between schooling and cups.  I’m just glad to have the memory documented.

As it seems to be my thing lately I started by rotating the sketch.  I did this so I could use one vertical photo instead of the two suggested.  Other than that, and well the title, I stuck fairly closely to the rest of the sketch.  This sketch in particular came in really easily for me.  I’m not sure what made this layout different, but with the little scrapbook time I’ve had recently I’m certainly not going to complain.

I used the Simple Stories Little Princess collection for this adorable photo of our daughter.  I had hesitated on purchasing this because many of the embellishments are princess people.  I’m really not one to use people embellishments to start, and then on top of that our girlie really isn’t into princesses.  She loves dolls and Barbie so I’m really glad to not have princess paraphernalia around the house for the time being.  When I found it on clearance though I “had” to snatch it up.

For this layout I used the more neutral or floral pieces, and I think they worked very well.  I used one of the tags as a substitute title because there really wasn’t a big story to go with this photo to make a title out of.  The photo is just a cute one I snapped of our daughter at a restaurant in her favorite dress.  Due to COVID we didn’t get to have her formal four year old photos done so I’ve been trying to get more photos of her documented this year.

Adorable Daughter Scrapbook Layout

Okay – enough ramblings from this girl.  I’m signing off to eat some supper.  Until next time…stay crafty!

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Mother and Son Scrapbook Layout

Hey crafty friends!  I’m back today sharing a mother and son scrapbook layout for the Paper Issues sketch challenge as well as the thankful challenge from Challenge YOUrself.  I had entered my Mother Daughter layout in the thankful challenge earlier this month so how could I not include photos of my boy and I as well!?

I’m not usually one to gravitate to a sketch that includes triangles as the main element, but with how large these were I knew I could use a 6×6 paper pad easily to get the look they were going for.  I also liked that the sketch had two photos since I had two photos of just M and I during vacation.  Is there a shape you usually shy away from in your crafting?

To get the triangles I cut my 6×6 paper into 5 inch squares and then cut them in half to get my triangles. The striped paper I cut in half again for the triangles in the corner.  It came together really fast when it came to the paper portion.  The embellishments is always where a layout takes me the longest.

I printed my journaling on a scrap of cream cardstock, and cut it into strips.  to do this I start by printing the journaling first on computer paper. After that’s done printing I then cut a square of cardstock larger than needed, and washi it to my paper.  I then run it through the printer again and it comes out perfectly placed on my cardstock.

Mother and Son Scrapbook Layout

Since my paper choices were rather busy, and my journaling took up so much space I kept the embellishments very close to the photo so that they didn’t overwhelm everything else.  A simple title in the triangle at the top and my layout was done.

Thanks so much for joining me today as I show off my creation.  I appreciate each and everyone one of you who read my ramblings as often, or not, that I’m here.  Until next time…stay crafty!

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