WEEK 30 - END OF YEAR PARTY

Hi everyone!  It's August!!!  Time for reflections of summer and gearing up for back-to-school time.  This reminded me of my daughter's end of the year party she had in May.  For the end of her first grade year, her teacher hosted a party at her family's ranch.  The kids and their families came and rode horses, had a pot luck and ate s'mores.  It was so much fun!  I wanted to be sure I documented this quickly.  Check out the video to see my thoughts and process!

Supplies:

• Patterned Paper: Echo Park, Crate Paper, Webster's Pages, cardstock
• Thickers: Printshop
• Stickers: Crate Paper Notes & Things
• Flair: American Crafts
• Enamel dots: My Mind's Eye

Thanks so much for joining me today.  I hope I helped spark some ideas for summer and school layouts to make your own!  Have a great week!

WEEK 29 - OH CANADA!

Hello everyone and welcome to my July DT layout!!  Today I have a patriotic layout for you in keeping with our theme this month.  But, I am from Canada so it's all about the maple leaf and the red and white here.  July 1st is Canada Day and it also happens to be my youngest son's birthday.  So I knew I had the perfect photo to scrap in keeping with this theme.  His first birthday!

Yes, this photo is from 2005 and I have never scrapped in our family album before.  I did up a first year book but our family albums from 2003-2007 are pretty sparse.  As I was very busy with 2 boys under the age of 5 at the time.  So I am thrilled to get this scrapped.

I used my Silhouette to cut out this giant maple leaf and then kept the layout predominantly red and white with some touches of navy and gold.  I hope you enjoy.  See my process video below.

Supply List: Cardstock: American Crafts. Patterned paper: Webster's Pages and Carta Bella. Alpha stickers: Gold - Studio Calico, Black - unknown. Embellishments: Layered stickers - Carta Bella, Wood veneer - Shimelle for American Crafts, sequin stars, puffy hearts - American Crafts and Crate Paper; glassine envelope - unknown. Mist: Color Shine - Heidi Swapp.

Week #43 - Friends and Giggles

Good morning everyone, Nancy here today to share with you a layout I made of my daughter and a few of her friends.

Supplies Used:

• Hydrangea Hippo Love is Grand Kit
• Smooch Spritz Emerald Sprinkle
• White Core'dinations Cardstock
• American Crafts Thickers
• Studio Calico Wood Icons
• Webster's Pages Journal Card
• Martha Stewart Glitter

Step 1:  To make the most of my paper, I cut a border out of my paper at 1/2 inch all the way around and mounted it to my white cardstock.  This leaves me with a sheet of paper 11x11 to use on a later project.

Step 2:  I cut the stiped paper at 3"x 11 and mounted that inside the border and added a piece of ribbon just underneath.

Step 3:  I mounted my photo first on a piece of red cardstock and then on the banner paper for more interest.

Step 4:  I glued my mounted photo underneath the ribbon on my layout.  And added the journaling card right under the first photo.

Step 5:  To add the title, I first placed my alphabet onto a clear ruler, this allows me to place the letters in a straight line as well as move them around to see where they best fit.

If you like, you could stop here with a title, journaling and photos, this layout would be complete.  Or you can take it to the next level by adding embellishments.  

Step 6:  To embellish the wood icons, I first misted them with the Smooch Spritz, and then applied a layer of dry adhesive to the top (I used my Xyron adhesive, but any glue will work).

Step 7:  Sprinkle glitter over the adhesive.  I used my finger and a piece of sticker paper to ensure the glitter was secured.  

You can then place the shapes throughout your project.  I also added a few cardstock hexagons for added interest.

Step 8:  Create tab shape from cardstock and adhere to top corner of layout.  I  added an additional glitter shape on top. 

You can add additional ribbons and trims, stickers, etc as desired.  

Thanks for stopping by.

Nancy

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The Daily Scrapbook Page - Layout #17

Today it is all about BACON! This layout is all about using your stash - even if things dont macth erpofectly, like pink + red, you can still get them to pull together on a layout by keeping the colors similar throughout. I used lots of old stash from variou manufacturers on this one--all I did was look for pink/red, yellow, and blue elements with a tiny bit of green:

Here's how I made this layout:

Supplies:

• Paper - by Bo Bunny Press, in the FAMILY IS kit here:http://bit.ly/FamilyIS
• Stickers - October Afternoon, Cosmo Cricket, Crate Paper, American Crafts, Webster's Pages, Echo Park Paper
• Brad - Basic Grey (I believe....)
• Note paper- http://bit.ly/FamilyIS
• Journaling Pen- Sakura

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Layout 7: February 25, 2011

We're back to using scraps this week. I had some leftovers from the layout I made last week and instead of putting them away (where they will collect dust for 5 years) I made another page with them! I know of several people, and I did this myself at one time, who never save scraps. They make something out of everything on the table until it is gone. That's the way to do it! This layout is made in that spirit.

 

Supplies:

Cutouts Sheet - Cosmo Cricket

Number Stickers for title - American Crafts

Tiny Alpha Stickers - Cosmo Cricket

Cardstock - Bazzill

Brad - American Crafts

Tag - K & Co

Stickers - 7 Gypsies

Chipboard Stickers - Sassafras Lass

Border - Bazzill

 

Cut out the tags from the Cutout Sheet using their design as your guide. Why re-invent the wheel, right? For the one tag that had a scalloped edge, I trimmed around it with scalloped edge scissors. It does not matter that the scallops don't match -- they're close enough!

Adhere photos along one side of the Black Cardstock in a column about 1" from the edge. Add one focal photo to the right of that, slightly overlapping two of the photos in the column.

Arrange the tags along the right edge of the photo column. 

 

Add letters for a title and journaling on the tags. A Pearl Brad in one of the tags is a nice subtle accent.

Add the border to the left side of the photos with a couple Chipboard Stickers. Add label stickers around the page as desired.

That's all for this week -- an easy page, using scraps, in about 15 minutes.

---Jennifer