Gift Tags

So excited for Christmas!  I was very happy with the stamps that I purchased at Michael’s.  The trucks were so cute!  Now I’m using those stamps to finish with gift tags.

Now to finish my shopping and wrapping!

Oh, Christmas!

Found this great stamp and die cut set on the Friday after Thanksgiving!  Had a great time coloring with Copic markers!  Now ... to wait a couple of weeks, then I’ll send them out!

I Love to Tell the Story

This was a fun project; I love mini albums but in this case, instead of focusing on photos, I focused on words of an older hymn.

Digital - First Try!

I am experimenting with digital scrapbooking.  Just for fun, after a fun day with my puppy, Emmitt, I grabbed my iPad and created digital layouts.  

I tried two apps - the first is Project Life.  This was absolutely simple!  And I love it.  You drag and drop your pictures, and choose from a nice selection of designs.  Then choose journaling blocks, type a few words, and you are set!  This layout took 15 minutes.  I did purchase a group of extra layouts - so for 99 cents, I completed this page.  I think I could get used to the digital option!  Also, you can save the layout in the app and edit it again, at a later time.

Next, I used RhonnaCollage and RhonnaDesign.  It took me about 90 minutes to create the following page ... I tried multiple layouts and arrangements.  Now that I have experience with the app, my speed will improve.  I really like the flexibility I had in layering the photos and resizing them.  I did a lot of cropping in the app - but I think that comes at a cost - the photos are not as clear.  The next time I use Rhonna Collage, I’ll edit my pictures first - so that I do not need to crop in the app itself.  Also, once I improve at using this app, I think my options will be unlimited.

Two very different looks - and both will have a place in my future scrapbooks!

A little more vintage

Here are the last three layouts in this series .... time to print new photos!    I used map paper for the first layout.  The photos were both taken at the same home - but about 20 years apart.  Fun to see a few of the same people in front of the same living room window, sharing the joy of family!

I have seen this photo many times during my life - four women who are a part of me! I never met Theresa Hult-Larson but I am happy that I knew the others well.  The border on this page was made by a 1/2 in circle punch - cutting the circles in half.

The stamp for the first names was from Close to My Heart and the die cut letters are from Stampin’ Up.  Again, you can see that one of the photos was pasted into an album using red and black photo corners.  I must take after my grandmother in my love of placing photos in albums!

I use a lot of brads in my albums - partially for appearance but they primarily serve the function of keeping the photos in place.  I am always concerned about how long adhesives will last so brads are used to alleviate that fear :)

Merrill Scrapbook

Love pics of these kiddos!  Taken in the 20’s, they are great vintage photos, but they also tell me that kids are kids! Swimming, eating watermelon, or dressing up, we love to photograph the little ones. How lucky my family is, that my great grandparents took photos frequently.

Elements included a Fiskars border punch. The dies are from Stampin’ Up - Eastern Beauty and Sunburst.

More Vintage (times 4)

I adore the photo of my great grandparents dancing.  I think it was taken in the 1950s. Shortly before he passed away. Virginia was born in 1919 so the photo in the stroller would have been taken that same year. What a happy family! Leslie and Alice later had a son, Chet.

I added some embossing to this page. I love the dimension that it it adds to a scrapbook layout.  And staying with the simple vintage patterns, I used a stamp with a typewriter font. I think it was appropriate for these layouts.

The postcard is definitely vintage!  1914 - and that building still stands today.

In the corner of the following two photos, you can see some photo corners that were used in the original scrapbook. I was not able to remove the photos from that book so the pictures include the photo corners, they were red hearts. The coats are amazing,

I am making for copies of everything for this vintage scrapbook. Four family members will get copies.

Journaling still needs to be added to this page. There were some notes on the back of the photos that I will include in some journaling efforts.  It was a very plain page so I added a little bit of string and a few banners to help out.

This is my grandfather. He was born in 1914. I love this photo!

Pockets

Sometimes, it is fun to add a pocket to my scrapbookbook page..  It makes a small embellishment, but it is also like a fun little surprise when you get to that page.  I have used pockets for journaling and also for adding photos that might not fit on the page.

Grandparents

Staying simple, I love the photos of these two people!

I have added  quite a bit of journaling; I normally try to avoid that because I do not like my handwriting. But as I look through these older photos, I am so glad that I have the hand writing of great grandparents.

Family / Vintage Scrapbooks

Last week, I was blessed to spend 4 days scrapbooking with a fabulous daughter, a great cousin,  and 14 wonderful friends!  Most fun ever scrapbooking!

I worked on a vintage album.  Losing my mother to Alzheimer’s in 2016 made me think a lot about family!  How lucky I was to have a treasure trove of photos - and luckier still, that my mother and grandmother had written names and dates on the back of them!

Here is my first sample.

These four photos were pasted into a scrapbook by my grandmother - all were from the 40’s.  Her scrapbook was extremely simple - black pages, some photo corners, and a lot of paste!  I tried to stay true to my grandmother’s simple style.  I think that the photos speak for themselves!

Hello, Baby!

So excited for my niece, who is expecting her first child this spring.  It’s a boy!  This little card was a snap, using the Cricut and my Big Shot.  I embossed the word, “baby”.  Love the dimension that heat embossing adds.

Of course Pinterest helped with the idea!

Crochet is a very fun hobby! A friend recently gave a star shaped baby blanket as a gift ... I liked the idea so well that I copied it!

Newborn Hope - A Mini Album

A few years ago, I was fortunate enough to attend a luncheon that supported a great organization, “Newborn Hope”!  One of my daughters worked on the committee that hosted the event;  it was a very special day!

As always, I love flowers and ribbon!  The centerpieces looked like Scrabble letters so I tied to use tiles on the front page, and throughout my album.

I used a heart shaped Chipboard album. I painted it white and used red ink over the paint, then chose papers to match the theme of the day.

The album was a gift to my daughter, in celebration of a successful day!

State Fair!

I love the State Fair - so much fun.  And the rides for the little ones -- great to see how excited they are!  I am still working on 2012 but I love this layout.  The kids look so happy - such great memories!                      

Simple is Fun, Too

Sometimes, I go very basic.  Photos and a title, along with fun paper can be just enough!

I tend to split my pages into thirds - “A Walk in the Woods” uses patterned paper to separate about a third of the page.  My “Rock Star” reserves the center third for photos and title.

Lots of Flowers!

I do love adding flowers to a page!  I may have gone overboard here, but once I start, it is hard to quit!  I prefer solid colors on paper flowers but every now and then, a pattern can really compliment my photos.

And layers ... plenty of those, too.

A Trip to the Zoo

A trip to the zoo is always a good subject for scrapbook pages! I love to crochet so I made a pink flower to add to this page.

Animal embellishments were cut from felt.

And we finish the session with a good parade! I am getting caught up.