Winter Beach Trip

This is my last layout with my November Scraptastic Club kit as of yet.

I've been working with my February kit so the scraps of this kit have been filed away for now. I just got notice that my March kit is on it's way so I'll be posting my layouts from my February kit soon.

 

I went up to my sisters to scrapbook for a couple days and here is one of the layouts I made. It's a picture of us at the beach during winter break. It was so cold there and even a fire didn't warm me up. The boy's were having so much fun digging in the sand and I didn't have the heart to make them leave.

 

I used a piece of white card stock for the back ground and layered different patterned paper on it for a base for my photo. The paper in this kit are so bold and vibrant. Very fun to play with.  I stamped some blotches under the paper for some interest with the Stampin Up Gorgeous Grunge stamp set and the Real Red ink pad.

 

 

I tucked some lables here and there for fun. Love the enamel hexagons so I put a few here and there.

 

 

I used both alphas that came in the kit and did my journaling right under the title. I love this photo so much and really wanted it to speak for itself.

 

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Can't get enough of this kit!!!!

I am having such a fun time with my November Scraptastic Club kit. The products in it aren't colors I would normally pick but that's the very reason I LOVE getting kits. At 40 years old, I rarely step outside my box so this has been so much fun challenging myself.

 

This layout is of me and my oldest boy Gus doing a selphy

 

The combination of Glitz Design and Echo Park paper is amazing. I'm loving the teal ombre. I layered the Floral, Multi Triangle, and Drip papers from Glitz Design for the base for my photo. Their Finnley Sticker Elements and What Nots were so fun to embellish with.

 

 

 

 

I used some wood veneers and the Prima Sugar dots for added fun and stamped a bit onthe background.

 

 

Here is a close up of the cluster in the top corner.

 

Kit's are my favorite way to scrap these days. I have more layouts to share from this kit and February's kit is on my craft table calling my name as I type.

 

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I'm giving it a go!!

Pocketed Scrapbooking

 

A while back I had an opportunity to do some Project Life pages for Craft Warehouse as store displays. At the time I was not at all interested in the whole PL thing, because I thought of myself as a 12 x 12 girl only. After making 30 or so pages, I was pleasantly surprised to find I actually liked it. I enjoyed embellishing on a smaller canvas. I really enjoyed all the tiny wood veneers and stamps and dies I got to use. I also found myself scrapping more of my family's daily life instead of just the big moments.

After I was done with the store samples, I found myself looking at my pictures and wanting to put them in a pocketed layout but still wanted some of them in a 12 x 12 format too. I decided to integrate the two of them and have an album of all different pages. So I went down to Craft Warehouse and purchased a box of PL page protectors. The result has been a fun learning experience.

 

This isn't the first spread I've made but it's the more recent. It came about after completing my Like Father Like Son layout that I posted just before this one. I had a bunch of photos from a trip we took this fall to a friends wedding in eastern Oregon at Camp Morrow on Pine Hollow lake and wanted to scrap them all. I used the October This Life Noted kit for the pocketed pages and the November Colorblind kit for the 12 x 12 pages from Scraptastic Club.

Here is page 1 & 2. You've already seen page 1. I love the freedom of putting these pages together however I want.

 

 

Close up of page 2

 

 

 

Here is page 3 & 4.

Close up of page 3. That wood card in the middle left is so cute!! I had so many thoughts of what I wanted to do with it and settled on a simple phrase so it would stand out on it's own.

Here is page 4. Love this one of my boys!!!

Here is the last page and I plan to adhere the cards and photos on the back of the Snips and Snails layout in this format.


I think I'm hooked. Pocketed pages will be making an appearance in my albums from now on. I have gravitated towards 1 or 2 photos on my 12 x 12 pages these days and with adding pocketed pages, I can add more and more photos to further tell the story. If you haven't tried them yet give it a go!! The possibilities are truly endless.


 

Like Father Like Son

Finally got back to scrapping!!!

 

I made a deal with myself at the end of November that I couldn't scrap anything until all my Christmas gifts were made. So I put all my scrapbook stuff away and turned my craft table into my knitting station as well as my sewing table. Once my gifts were made, I put away my craft table since it's in the middle of my front room and decorated for Christmas. BUT NOW that all the hub-ub is over, the craft table is back up and in full swing!!

 

I got my November Colorblind kit from Scraptastic Club out and started right in. I just love this picture of Chris and Gus fishing and knew I wanted it in a 5 x 7 size and have it be the only pic on the page.

 

This kit is so bright and cheery with lots of embellishments and I had a blast adding them to the layout. I got the add on as well so I had lots to choose form.

 

 

Love these Amy Tangerine Thickers!!

 

 

 

Love clustering embellishments!! I always feel like I could add more but make myself stop at a certain point.

 

 

How stinking cute is that owl wood veneer?!?!!? Just love all the goodies in the Scraptastic Club kits. Jessica makes them all so fun and inspiring to play with.

 

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The Day I Fell In Love

I am having so much fun with this We Are Family Kit from Scraptastic Club!! I am scrapbooking more often and scrapbooking things I wouldn't normally scrap. As I've said before, this kit is all about family so here I go again with a layout about Chris and I. This is one of the last layouts I did with this kit so I was down to scraps. A lot of pinks and teals so I took this pic out of a broken frame and started scrapping.

 

We took this selfy on a day trip to the Oregon coast. Chris packed a picnic and we played on the beach with my dog Shilo. It was this trip that I realized I was falling in love with him. How could I not? Picnic on the beach and all.

 

 

 

 

I'm using things I would never use otherwise. I don't normally pick these colors but really love working with them. The flower pins are something I thought I wouldn't use but I used all 6 of them from this kit. If you've never purchased a kit before, check them out now. Such a fun way to scrap!!!

 

 

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This!! is what it's all about!

This made my day when I saw my boys looking at my scrapbooks. It's because of them and for them that I do this amazing craft. Scrapbooking brings me so much joy and to see my boys enjoying it too means the world to me.

 

This layout came together haphazardly. I started it at night by cutting out the chevron. I put the papers down and the photos on top and went to bed. The next morning I liked the way it was positioned so I kept it that way. That's how the rest of the layout came together as well.

 

 

I began cutting out the cut aparts from the Scraptastic Club September We Are Family kit and tossed them on the page and really liked where they fell. All of Jessica's kits come with so many embellishment so I just kept tossing them on the page till I was satisfied.

 

Just love this cluster in the bottom corner. Those wood veneer hearts are amazing!

 

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Canoe Ride

 

I just love these photos!! The boys had so much fun on the canoe. We never take it out anymore so this was a blast. Chris had been working 12 hour shifts 7 day's a week and this was his first day off in a month. He loves the outdoors so we packed up a picnic and heade to Clear Lake for the day.

 

 

I used a sketch form Scraptastic Club blog. I added more photos on the bottom cuz I couldn't pick just one. I haven't used sketches much but really enjoyed it this time. It was a great starting point for me.

 

This was supposed to be a picture frame but I didn't have one and really loved these strips so I lined them up and used the anchor sticker. I love the anchor trend and was so glad I had pics of us playing on the water so I could use them. I'm not good at using things if they don't go with my pics. I've seen it done and really like it, I just haven't made it work yet.

 

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