We had professional photos done last year when the kids half-brother came to visit from Germany. I haven't yet scrapbooked them.... until today! This was the first time that I've been scrapbooking since summer, I've been spending so much time outside on my deck enjoying the summer I haven't wanted to be down stairs when it was so nice outside. Well Fall is in full swing now, and this is the result!
I loves the colours in the Indian Summer collection from We R Memory Keepers, combined with a page from Lemonade Stand from Bo Bunny (Block Party) its a herringbone wood grain sheet that I used on the background of the second page. I also used Prima flowers and alphas, gems from Queen & Co. and an overlay from Jillibean Soup
The kids miss their brother, and only get to see him once a year, and on Skype.
Let me know what you think!
I'll be the first to admit that I get inspired from the work of others - seeing beautiful work from designers or someone who is passionate about their art gets my creative juices flowing. I came across a layout that did more than that for me - I loved absolutely everything about this layout from the colours, to the products, to the sparseness and negative space. Louise Nelson is a designer for Prima Marketing; so you know I already love the products. She used gold on black and kept it simple - and stunning. You can visit Louise's blog post here
Here is my version of her layout
And here is a photo of Louise's original! I can't get enough of it! Wowzah!!
Thank you for looking!
I instantly fell in love with the colour combination of Teresa Collins' collection You Are My Happy - very very me! I also wanted to try my hand at the uber trendy Pocket Scrapbooking that everyone seems to be doing. My daughter turned 5 in March - and I have several photos from the party, but most of them turned out blurry and or poor lighting, so I decided to use the multiple photos and put together a few pocket pages. I was so excited about this project, I bought the collection package of papers and nearly all of the embellishments! So, my first task was to match up some ribbon and trim and flowers that will work with this collection. I kept everything fairly simple, and didn't junk it up too much, I used Vintage Photo distress ink on the edges.
So, Lorena, do you like Pocket Scrapbooking? I would say yes - it is a great way to scrap a heap of photos for a theme or event, it allows you to use many photos. It reminds me of card making actually, filling all the little pockets with well balanced colour co-ordinated pieces. What is the best part of working with a collection for pocket scrapbooking? That the backs are already colour co-ordinated for you to continue to build your 'flip side' scrapping!
Tell me what you think of this collection .... tell me what you think of the pocket pages - is it something you have tried? Are you thinking about trying it now that you have seen my first attempt?
