Oh Snap - February KOTM ideas!

Hi all -
welcome to some inspiration!!! Tannis D created a whole bunch of great layouts and a mini album all with what she got in this month's KIT! 

Check out this adorable Mini book!

4 Inches by 12 inches

the cover and small band to put over the cover to keep the book together (check out the film strip:-)

 scored at 3 inch intervals

these little Flap pieces are 7.5 by 2.75 - scored in half and round the outside corners

(2x3 photos fit perfectly!)

Adhere the backside of the scored piece to the 3x4 section - alternating sides - add photos and decorate!

I hope you feel inspired!!

S

Disney album...in the making!

working on a Disney scrapbook - I did not even scrapbook our last trip...and we went again, now I bet that sounds familiar!! So following my own Mantra - Scrapbook the current photos in your life...I am starting my Disney book.

First off I thought I would scrapbook it a little differently - so I started a mini smash book on the trip- in it I did some journaling, I kept all our receipts, leftover fast passes, tickets, wristbands and all sorts of collectibles from our trip - the smash stick journal pen with the glue stick end is sooo fabulous for this purpose, the other reason I love just using a glue stick is that you can "lightly tack" things in, making them easy to pull out when you are ready to transfer to your pages. I lose paper, so this method of tacking items into something, even temporarily really works for me!!

I then choose my album for the trip!

SMASH FOLIO POCKETS - 13.5" X 11.75" - FITS 8.5 X 11 PAPER

  this book is HUGE - what I love about it is the little bags, folders, pockets etc that are attached right to the spiral binding!

Now when doing a Mini album (as that is kind of what this is, even though it is not mini in size) I generally organize my stack of photos 1st

 so I started to plan my album pages - chronologically according to date and event - and started with just tucking the photos into the pages, one after another. Once I planned photos for about 4 pages, I went back to page 1 and trimmed photos as necessary, and then started to adhere them to the pages.

 I thought this "What UP?" page was the perfect beginning as the photos are from the airport and on the plane when we are "up" in the air.

I will show you a few more pics of photo placement - now keeping in mind that at this point I am just organizing the photos, adding a little patterned paper on some pages, and sticking down those photos...when I work on any sort of mini album, I leave my embellishments until the end - so these pages will all look different when I do my finishing touches, which I will show off in a future post.

the next page is a pocket page - so I thought I would use this for all my Blizzard beach photos - so I first added a little bit of tropical paper from the Summer Soul line from Fancy Pants 

the pocket itself looked nice and "beachy" already...

I decided to lay out the photos and then figure out how to get them all into 2 pages and a folder,

the folder pocket holds 8.5x11 paper, so I will do some layouts with my extra photos,

here is the photo with the folder

ok - more to come & I will get working to show it to you!!

I hope you feel inspired!

S

Hey - let's Play!

did you miss me?  I took off some time to spend with my hubby & kiddies, and then spent some time with my Sister, niece and nephews:-)  but now it's time to get back it!
So I have been planning to play with "Playground" by Echo Park for a while, what better excuse to work with this paper line than to Scrap Dain's Picnic Day at the end of the school year!

Layout #1 - 

Using 2 pieces of Bazzill Kraft a the bases - The Playgound Element Stickers, the letter stickers and paper - "Merry go Round" & Jump Rope" , Buttons are from Fancy Pants - Beach Bum - perfect colors!!

Layout #2

here I used Prismatics Orange as a base on the left side - patterned paper on both sides is Double Dutch, the striped paper used as a mat on the left is "Monkey Bars" I used the backside of "Capture the Flag, Double Dutch & Kick the Can" for matting photos. Lots of Element stickers again!  

Layout #3

the final layout (for now:-) uses backside of  "Jump Rope" as the main page, arrow paper is "Kick the Can", orange paper is backside of the "Journalling cards", and then smaller mats are the backsides of "Kick the Can & Capture the Flag".

there you have it 5 pages, a couple of pieces of paper, stickers and buttons...now no more excuses - I have all this great product in the store, come in and get it and then "Scraplift" these layouts - just think of how quickly you will get them done!!

I hope you feel inspired!

S

Pine Point Rapids...

 Here I used a Kraft background that I inked up the edges with Vintage Photo, patterned paper is all from the Imaginisce "Happy Camper" line... stickers are from the same line and a little OA thrown in for good measure:-)

 these letters are studio calico's wooden letters, I sprayed them with Mr Huey mist in Clover and then painted them with Tim Holz Crackle paint to give them this look.

I hope you feel inspired today!

S

First Kiss....

well for this little guy it was ( besides his mom of course!!)

Using Cosmo Cricket - Salt Air  "Coral Blooms"  & Co-ordinations cardstock that I sanded a little to distress it! Tiny Type & some thickers, and CC journal sticker complete the layout!

Take a close look at that last pic!  I think the look on my friend Hanh's face is PRICELESS!!!


ahhhh, young love:-)

I hope you feel inspired!

S

scrapping those beach pages...

well I don't know about you, but I have a little "Beach babe" in my house, she's 4, she's cute as a buttton, and give her a sandpail, shovel and water and she is good to go:-)  Using the Whole Fancy Pants Beach Babe line, all the patterned paper, the buttons, the chipboard & flowers and brads. I scrapped all these 12x12 layouts about some of our days at the beach (well one layout is at the pool - but who's counting!)

There you go - lots of ideas for your beach/summer pages today.  Now all you got to do is get into the store and pick up some of the beautiful paper and fun stuff!!
(P.S.- not quite sure what Fancy Pants was thinking with the 1 red patterned paper in amongst all the bring teals, greens and pinks...but oh well I still made it work:-)
This is the way I like to scrap when I have a large project, With a complete paper line, all the matching paper and accents, the ideas just flow, you use up every last piece of product for your project and then you can say "Loved using you, see you later!" and then grab another paper line and accents for another project :-)

I hope you feel inspired!

S