Grid It Up Scrapbook Challenge

I did a 2-page layout for the next challenge. Get the details at this post.

I've had these photos printed out for a while now. I snapped them through the car window during a trip from New Jersey to South Carolina. That's about 750 miles (or about 1,207 km). That's 6 states and the District of Columbia.

Supplies: Cardstock, Pattern Paper, Brads & Flair Button - American Crafts; Letter Stickers - Making Memories; White Pen - Ranger; Photos taken with Hipstamatic iPhone app

A Color Story Challenge

Here's my take on a red, white and aqua layout. Check this post for details.

Supplies: Red Carstock - Bazzill; Aqua Carstock, Pattern Paper, & Thickers - American Crafts; Enjoy Cutting File - Kerri Bradford

This layout started with the color pallet given to us by Shimelle. The second thing I knew I was going to use was this "enjoy" border cut file from Kerri Bradford. It's a simple layout, but the journaling is what stands out on this one.

Add To The Story Challenge.

Warning: my page this challenge deals with loss and miscarriage. I know lots of people only scrap the good things. But I'm not like that. Sometimes the misfortunes of our lives must be recorded. And this is one of the times for me.

Here's the next Shimelle challenge. Click this link to find out the details.

This challenge was an easy/hard one for me. The page came together easy. But the journaling under the flap was very hard. I wanted it private., so that's why the gray flower paper was used to make a hidden spot for my thoughts. I suffered a miscarriage at 11.5 weeks this past April. We saw the heartbeat a few times before that. I thought we were in the clear. I was wrong. I have some pages that I did before the miscarriage. But I don't want to do a whole page on the loss. So this 6x12 page, with the hidden journaling was a good solution. This one will go before those other pages. Just so things stay clear to people looking in the album in the future.

Supplies: Cardstock - Bazzill; Pattern Paper & Thickers - American Crafts; Ribbon - Michaels

Now any children we may have in the future can see why there aren't any photos of this baby growing up. They can read about the hurt, but also my desire to remember a life that was lost way to soon.

Starting Point Challenge

Here's another page for the challenges at www.shimelle.com. This time Shimelle challenged us to use a layout she designed as a starting point. Check this post of all the details and to see the layout.


This layout used photos of my husband's mom when she was a young girl.

Supplies: Cardstock - Bazzill; Pattern Paper, Chipboard, Thickers & Ribbon - American Crafts; Small Letter Stickers - Making Memories.

Shimelle has a Wake Up Call this morning with a giveaway to one lucky person. She asked what we wanted to scrapbook today. My answer was "old family photos. And with this layout, I've done that. I've linked the post, so go check it out. But you have to hurry. The giveaway closes tonight (13th August 2011) at midnight UK time.

Playing with Paper

I'm on a roll now. Here's the latest layout. You can find out the details of this challenge at this blog post. I tried to stick with just paper as embellishments, but it didn't work for me. I tried to use paper in place of that ribbon. In the end, I just had to change it to that ribbon. It made the layout work so much better.

Supplies: Kraft Cardstock - Bazzill; Pattern Paper - Studio Calico; Ribbon - SEI

I saw someone use the SC paper like this. I have wanted to try this since then. It took 2 sheets of the scallop paper to do this. Then the "Welcome Home" comes from another sheet of paper. My husband asked, "Why did you use that "Welcome Home" piece." Well, to me, where he is is home. And I thought it worked for the layout of us through the years.

Another layout

Another layout for the Online Scrapbooking Weekend hosted by Shimelle. This challenge was to use a printable made by Mary Anne Walters. You download it at the bottom of this post. You can see the details of the challenge at that link.

My printer is out of color ink, so I had to improvise. I printed the journaling box in grey-scale. Then I colored it with a orange marker. It actually worked out better for me, because the original colors didn't work with my chosen papers.

Supplies: Gray cardstock - unknown; Pattern papers (including the orange, which is a backside of a print) and Thickers - American Crafts; Small letter stickers - Making Memories; Ribbon - Michaels

I went ahead and used the same collection of American Crafts products, since they were already out in front of me. This layout started out with the title on the printable journaling block. Then I flipped through my photos and found something that worked with the colors in the paper. And notice that the "N" in FUN is really a "Z" turned on it's side. And that worked because I could fit those smaller stickers under it. I love when things fall together like this.

I have millions of this type of photo. I boogie board every time we go to the beach. And Mark always gets the camera out and takes photos of me. So finding a bathing suit that matched the colors in the paper was pretty easy.

Sticker Layout

So, the story of this blogs life. Shimelle hosts something, new stuff gets posted here. This weekend, she's hosting an Online Scrapbokking Weekend. Challenges and prizes are going on at her blog. If you'd like to join along this weekend, here's the link to the blog post with the info, Shimelle's Online Scrapbooking Weekend.

And here's the first layout that I completed. It was for this challenge, mixing stickers from different collections.

Supplies: White Cardstock - Bazzill; Thickers, Details Stickers, Pattern Paper - American Crafts

This layout is about a dear friend that passed away last month. She was like another mother to me and my husband. I was so happy to get this photo of the 2 of them together from another friend.

All the products from American Crafts are older lines. The pattern paper and the Details stickers that look like flowers are from the Moda Bella line. The heart shaped Details sticker is from the Everyday line. I have a hard time using those Details stickers, so I was glad to break into 2 different packages of them.