Kiss and Tell Scrapbooking

3 Photo Scrapbook Page: Summer Beach

I think this combination of photos with project life cards is my new favorite way to put together a simple scrapbook layout.

Need more ideas for beach layouts or layouts with three photos?  Click over to Masterful Scrapbook Design.

3 Photo Scrapbook Page: Friendly

I noticed lots of yellow and hearts at the most recent CHA - so I thought I would use some old product to accomplish this trendy look.

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5 Photo Scrapbook Page with Camera Motif: Birthday Selfies

I've been loving the camera motif that we've been seeing so much in scrapbooking lately.  I used some glitter glue to add a bit of sparkle to the Echo Park camera strip.

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Debbie Hodge's Shelf Layout: My Take: Allison's Snow Fun

This layout design is based  as exactly as possible on  Debbie Hodge's Get It Scrapped: Scrapbook Coach Lesson #3: On A Shelf:

   

Give it a try & then go post it to the gallery at Get It Scrapped!

Fun and easy and I think it looks pretty good.

Scrapbooking Childhood Memories: Mushy

This page is all about random memories of my dad.

I cut a piece of the paper out from behind where the photo is so that I could create the mushroom embellishments from the patterned paper.

The title is "Mushy" as an abbreviation for mushroom (my dad could identify any kind of mushroom or any other plant) and as in "mushy" or extra sentimental.

Want more ideas for scrapbooking old family photos?  Check Out Masterful Scrapbook Design's Old Photos Edition - it includes an awesome interview with Patti Knox!

2 Page Scrapbook Layout with 6 Photos: The Dock

This 2 page layout was based on a Two Peas sketch - I love the idea of using Project Lift type cards to form a grid with cropped photos - so fast and easy!

Want more ideas for getting lots of photos onto 2 page scrapbook pages?  Check out Masterful Scrapbook Design.

11 Photo Scrapbook Page: Cartwheel Machine

I used the American Crafts Thickers that have the adhesive on the front so that you can adhere glitter to them - this is fun and easy to do.

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3 Photo Scrapbook Page: Family Tree

This layout is all about an impromptu family girl's night and taking selfies.  

I used the realistic wood patterned paper because we were in a beachy little town and I used the cute family tree polaroids from Bo Bunny because they remind me to things we talked and laughed about.

 

10 Photo Scrapbook Layout: Every Child Is An Artist

One way to preserve your child's large art is to photograph it.  These photos are from several years ago and my son doesn't make nearly as much art now as he did when he was little.

The quote is by Pablo Picasso:  "Every Child is An Artist, , the problem is to remain an artist once he grows up."

Scrapbooking Summer with Project Life Type Cut Out Cards & a Glitter Girl Sketch

After listening to "This American Life" on summer camp and then the "Paperclipping Roundtable" all about nostalgia, and after realizing that there are only three weeks left to my kids' summer vacation, well, I'm feeling a lot of nostalgia for my days of summer camp in Massachusetts and Maine.  I went to Camp Farley; Camp Snipatuit; Camp Molly Mollasses and Camp Massasoit.  The first two were sleep away horseback riding camps and the second two were day camps.  When I went to Camp Massasoit, my Grandma Grace would often pick me up and then bring me for ice cream and then she'd stop at the vegetable stand.  So the photos in my Summer Camp Nostalgia page aren't of camp, but are of the post camp ride home with Grandma Grace.  But right now?  I have a serious urge to drive north with my kids and rent a cabin or get into the woods somehow with the kayak strapped to the top of the minivan and the trunk chock full of things like our archery set and bags of marshmallows.

Layout Design inspired by Glitter Girl's Adventure #80.

Supplies: My Mind's Eye, Echo Park.

True Blue / Monochromatic Scrapbook Layouts

Want to put a whole lot of embellishments on your scrapbook page?  Go monochromatic and you can go embellishment crazy!

Fast and easy - and I'll betcha most of these products are over 7 years old!

 

She's the Bomb! / File Under: Scrapbook Layout Composition: The Shelf

Have I mentioned just how amazing Debbie Hodge's ebook "Buiding Pages" is ?  Well,  it is!  I think it is my favorite class  / ebook that I've encountered related to scrapbook page design.  It makes it all so seriously simple and easy to remember.  Right now I'm fixated on the shelf design; I had a shelf page fail recently - but I think this page works much better. 

The story is that my 9 year old daughter hadn't seen my sister in real life since she was 3 years old!  Their relationship has been over the phone.  So when Jenny came to visit for a week, Allison couldn't get enough of her Aunt Jen and she completely fell in love with her.

I even added some oomph and polish and yes I did lace embroidery floss through those buttons!  Something I would have skipped in the past, but it really does add a little extra; so yes, it was worth the effort.

P.S. Jenny don't kill me - I'm scrapping unapproved photos - promise I won't tag them in facebook ;)

For more awesome scrapbook layout design ideas, click over to Get It Scrapped.

Scrapbooking Trendy Triangles & Goodbye to the St. Pete Pier: One Last Look

When I started modern scrapbooking over ten years ago, I always wondered why there weren't more quiling patterns - everyone was cutting their photos into circles and hearts and stars - but we didn't see any diamonds, hexagons or TRIANGLES!   So I've been so happy to see these quilting shapes in scrapbooking in the past year or so as the latest and greatest and trendiest. 

I even set up a Pinterest Board just for Triangles:  Click Here For Trendy Triangle Awesomeness on Pinterest.

The Triangle shape is perfect for this page about our farewell to the St. Petersburg Pier since the Pier is and invertered pyramid (or triangle) that was built in 1973 and its been there for the 25 years I've lived in St. Petersburg, Florida and for my kids' whole lives - they'll be tearing it down soon so we went to take one last look at this beloved landmark.

Masterful Scrapbook Design "Building Pages": Ls & Ts & Flooding my Blog, Pinterest, Two Peas, and Instagram (yep, totally guilty here)

This page was inspired by Debbie Hodge's ebook "Building Pages" over at Get It Scrapped and Masterful Scrapbook Design  This layout is based on her "Lesson #11: Ls and Ts."  Being able to see how pages are put together makes it so much easier to make scrapbook pages.  Sometimes, when you read someone else's perspective on something you have been thinking about or looking at for a long time, you get a spark of inspiration - that is exactly what happens for me when I participate in the chats over at Masterful Scrapbook Design - I made 5 layouts yesterday! 

So yes, I'm guilty  of "flooding my blog" today - but I like to get them up and clear the decks so I can start on new things.  So pardon my inconsistency - but I love to block and tackle.  And I know I could schedule my posts out - but somehow its just not as fun for me.  Yes, I enjoy instant gratification in my hobby please.  So thanks for looking and for reading - especially if you find my inconsistent posts annoying - and even more especially if you love or can identify with my inconsistency.  Catch as catch can, right?

 

 

Look at This: Figure out what is wrong with this layout

Ok, let me first say that I love these photos and I like this layout.  I even felt like the fussy cutting at the top wasn't too much work.  BUT there is something that seems glaringly obviously wrong now that I look at the layout on the computer.  Can you tell what it is?

Hint: The problem is in this photo clear as day. 

Did you find it?  If you did, please leave a comment with the error.

Need Another Hint?  Check out Debbie Hodge's ebook Building Pages over at Get It Scrapped and Masterful Scrapbook Design.