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.
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.
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.
Okay – enough ramblings from this girl. I’m signing off to eat some supper. Until next time…stay crafty!
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.
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!
Hey crafty friends! I’m back today with a layout for both the Paper Issues scraplift challenge and for Challenge Yourself’s thankful challenge. I did double duty with this Mother Daughter Scrapbook Layout.
I choose to use this photo of our daughter and I on our recent socially distanced beach vacation. We always book our week the year before so this trip was planned well before the pandemic. I looked into getting our funds back, and we couldn’t, so we took the trip and did our best to maintain distance. We didn’t do rides or arcades…just beach and supper. It was actually quite nice as we came up with more things to do as a family. I’m thankful for the time away to recharge, I’m thankful for the yummy food we ate after this picture and I am of course thankful for the munchkin in the photo with me.
The Paper Issues layout I used as inspiration had torn edges. I have tried numerous times to do that, but I just isn’t something I feel like I pull off well. What I did instead was to use my edge distressed to at least give it a roughed up edge. I then distressed them with my Tim Holtz Scattered Straw mini ink pad and blender.
All the papers, embellishments and washi come from the Simple Stories Kate and Ash collection. I head off on buying this one, but I had seen so many cute pages using in on Pinterest that on my last store order I included it for myself. After completing this page…I’m so glad I picked it up.
Well, I think that’s it for now. I hope to be off to creating more soon because to be real…this cyber school thing is kicking this momma’s butt! Until next time…stay safe…stay sane and stay crafty.
Hey crafty friends! Welcome to another layout here at The Paper Addict. Thank you for joining me. Today I want to share my adorable baby girl scrapbook layout that I created for the August challenge over at Scrap the Girls.
This month the blog challenged us to use an inspiration image to create the layout. It’s one that is VERY open to interpretation. When I looked at the image I saw a lady who looked happy to be opening her heart to new growth. What better to depict new growth and happiness than a baby. This lead me to my daughters five month old baby shoot, and one of my favorite photos of her ever.
I started with a pink piece of cardstock from American crafts as the base of this layout since I didn’t have any full 12×12 pieces of patterned paper left. I then took the largest piece of paper I had to create the base.
Everything else on the layout is scraps! I distressed all the edges and layered them in various ways to create a base for them in the middle of the paper. Some strips long the right edge and paper wise I felt like I had enough interest and any more would be to much.
I sprinkled on my embellishments and a silver foiled title piece and the layout was complete. It really didn’t take all that long…maybe 30 minutes, which for me is great!
Back to creating I go everyone. Let me know what you created with this image so I can see how you interpreted it. Until next time…stay crafty!