Scrappy Sunday....

Today is the day I meet with my Scrapbook Club.  While I can't show you yet what we will be working on today...I can share with you what we made last time we met (we meet every other month).  We typically complete 3 12x12 pages.  Here is one of the double page spreads that we made.  Forgive the photography!

left side

right side

These pages used the Tickets and Tags Simply Scrapping kit in the catalog.  I love this set - It's full of hip and trendy patterns and the die cut stickers are awesome!  I have quite a few left overs that I need to play with.

Alright - I must keep at the task at hand....til tomorrow folks!

More pages...

Here's another look at one of the pages I created for my friend. This one was a little tricky, but I worked it out. Remember, they each wrote a letter to the Graduate, and this one was long again. So, I knew I needed to tuck it away. And when I looked at the pictures I had to work with for this page, the one of the girls sitting in the grass with their Grandpa stood out to me. It's the one I took my inspiration from and decided to use some kites on the page. I wanted the page to have some brightness to it, but not overpowering.

I let the kites have all of the color. I also used up some ribbon scraps for the kite tails. A perfect use for those tidbits of ribbon.

I of course had to throw in some buttons. I also doubled up my pop dots for some extra dimension. The particular kite above had to have pop dots only on half of the kite, because....

I needed to be able to lift that cloud up out of there. Whatcha think? I'd really like to hear. Comment PLEASE!!!!

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It's National Scrapbooking Month...right??

And guess what??? I've been scrapbooking. Just not for myself. I got hired to do some pages for my friend. Her niece is graduating, and they were putting together a scrapbook that the relatives were to contribute to, along with a letter to the Graduate with memories, etc. What a neat idea!
I will admit, it is a little tough to scrap other people's pictures, but it sure was fun! Really got me in the mood to scrap, however, I've got other work that needs to get done first.....graduation decor, Stamp Club projects, publication calls.....I just keep pluggin' away.

So - let me tell you a bit about these pages.... Like I said, each person's page was to contain a letter to the graduate about memories, etc. Do you see the letter on this page???

No?

Look again!

Did you see that tab at the top....I stuck it in there. The letter was too big, and would have consumed the whole page.

I wanted to keep the same feeling on my pull out as I did on the actual page, so repeated the chocolate scalloped edge, and added some flowers.

And you all know how I like dimension on my cards....same goes for scrapbooking.

Check out the sheen in the paper. THis paper is from the Sweet and Sour DSP. I really like that embossed flourish on here.

Here is the facing page. I continued the flowers and did you notice the actual stitching on there?

And that same flourish is on this side too, but turned.

Do you like? Do you ever scrapbook for someone else? Have you been scrapping this month? I'd like to hear what you've got going on. Leave some comment love would ya?

Round and round...

...that's typically what brothers do right - go round and round with each other. One minute it's crabbing at each other, the next they are hugging each other. Life is interesting with two little boys in the house!
Here is a page I created that shows the boys happy with one another. This is another page that started as a 6 x 6 page, converted into a 12x12 page. The 6x6 page:
This was SUPER simple - punched 3 circles of different sizes, crumpled up a strip of paper, and adhered the word 'brother' that had been die cut with the Big Shot - Billboard font. I attached that to a 12x12 page:

It still needs some work - like a large title that will wrap around the turquoise ring and large green circle. I will use the large green circle for journaling. The large circles were all cut using the Circle Scissors. I tucked in a picture of Alex, and later will duplicate this page for Will's scrapbook and change out that picture with a picture of Will.
I think the page looks a lot better in person - but don't they all???

Enjoy the day!

Jen