Sunday, May 11, 2014

NSD Layouts

I tried to get back to my roots and add some pages to our family album. Here are a few of my favorites that I made for National Scrapbook Day.

The challenge for this one was to use up scraps. I played with the Studio Calico Bluegrass Farm kit.
 
 
Just for fun using the Studio Calico Copper Mountain kit (which I love!). I love this photo of my boys from the hospital when my youngest was born.
 
Another Bluegrass Farm layout with a few wood veneer stars and a strip of Becky Higgins patterned paper from the baby paper pack.
 
I love this photo of my boys playing at the park near our house. I used the Copper Mountain kit again with a few added wooden arrows.
 
My son was a ring bearer in his uncle's wedding this past summer. I loved this photo of him that the photographer took. This layout used the Bluegrass Farm kit again (surprisingly versatile!), a Project Life card, some alphas and a little twine and bling. The challenge for this one was to share a layout inspired by a class from Studio Calico. I used ideas from the Color Studio class which is over but still open for self-paced scrapbookers and I highly recommend!
 

Saturday, May 10, 2014

NSD Recap

Hello fellow scrapbookers! Did any of you play along with National Scrapbook Day last weekend? I was lucky enough to have a lot of free time last Saturday so I was able to upload creations to my Studio Calico gallery. I only shared one PL spread from last year as my favorite from 2013 but I thought I'd share it with you, too!

 This was Week 12&13. My husband and I left on an anniversary cruise during week 12 and were on the ship for week 13. I chose to highlight a few events from before we left and put a photo on the right for our favorites from our cruise. You can see the mini album I did for our cruise trip in a video here.



I used the Spencer's Project Life Kit from Studio Calico and added in a few stamps and Thickers. I included the "Best Moments" card from a RAK I had gotten to include our favorite parts of the week.

 
On the left side I used Stayzon ink to stamp our location on my photos. I also used some washi tape sprinkled around the page.

 
 
 
 I will share some of my traditional layouts tomorrow!