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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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MOMMY AND ME SCRAPBOOK LAYOUT SUPPLY LIST

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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.

Come get some ideas on creative a baby girl scrapbook layout

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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Bride Wedding Scrapbook Layout

Hey crafty friends!  It’s time for another reveal with Southern Girls Challenge.  This round that challenge is the easiest….ANYTHING GOES!!!!  I decided to continue with my sister’s wedding photos and created a bride wedding scrapbook layout.

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Bride Wedding Scrapbook Layout Supply List

This layout is a bit on the cheeky side.  The story is that my sister is a coffee addict.  Her friends stopped that morning, got her a cup of Starbucks, and had it labeled bride instead of her name.  I was paranoid that she was going to spill it on her dress!

Coming up with ideas for wedding layouts can get repetitive. This bride focused wedding scrapbook layout has both style and bit of fun. It is also easily re-created with minimal supplies.

Since I used all patterned paper on this layout I went very simple with my embellishments. I made the cluster in the upper left with a circle punch, heart punch, a snarky phrase and two tiny hearts.  The wood veneer in the lower right were colored with gelatos and paired with a piece cut from the patterned paper.  With the colored foam title and some splatters it’s enough to be interesting, but not overwhelming.

I would be remiss if I also didn’t mention the sketch book I used as my starting point.  If you haven’t seen the first sketch book from Heather’s Crafty Life you need to go check it out.  She gives you 50 sketches for just $5.  You really can’t go wrong.

If you’re still with me…thank you for reading it all.  I hope you’ll pop over to the challenge and share you creations with us.  As always please leave me a link here as well so I can make sure to check our your work.  I’ll be back soon with more layouts, and more wedding inspiration.  Until next time…stay crafty!

More wedding layouts

First Dance

Mixed media wedding layout 

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Masculine Scrapbook Layout

Welcome back crafty friends!  I find that lately I have been doing really well at creating new things, but not doing a great job at sharing them.  I have a plan in place to try to work on changing that…starting with today’s masculine scrapbook layout.

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Masculine Scrapbook Layout Supply List

This layout started with a white piece of cardstock trimmed down and mounted on a piece of navy patterned paper from the kit.  I’ve been using liquid glue to do this rather than my tag, and boy has having that wiggle room during drying helped me get my bases down a lot straighter…even if I struggle to get a perfectly straight photo.

I originally completed this layout without the mixed media, but it was just to white.  To combat this I added some ink using the packaging technique (color is discontinued), and it went from being a layout I wasn’t sure about to one I really liked.  I have tried the packaging technique many times before and I hadn’t been a fan until very recently.  What makes the difference for me is taking a tissue or paper towel and sopping some of it up before it dries.  It adds the color, but makes it subtle.

Masculine layouts are often hard to create as many products lean towards the feminine. Come see how this masculine scrapbook layout came together quickly with one collection and one ink spray.

Ok – enough about the layout as you can see what I did with the paper strips and embellishments.  Let me tell you the story of the photos.  Each year for Christmas I fill my husbands stocking.  Just recently I have been trying to do themed stocking rather than little tickets.  Stuff he’ll really use, but it also kinds of funny.

Last year I did personal things – cigar center soap – dapper dan hair gel from the movie O Brother Where Art Thou – etc.  This year I decided to fill the entire stocking with little bottles of liquor like the kind you get in the mini bar.  I figured it would be fun to try all different drink concoctions without buying big bottles.  My hubby laughed and laughed when he took the third bottle out and pretended he was drinking it all in one shot.  It will be a fun memory.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this layout and I’ll be sure to be back with more soon.  Until then – stay crafty!