Picture My Life Overload

This past weekend I started going through my photos and realized that with the Picture My Life cards I had on hand I could get a ton of photos into one of my albums.  I ended up getting all of my 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 photos all into my Picture My Life album.

This is just a sampling of what I got done and put together.  I am loving the pocket scrapbooking because it is allowing me to get all these photos that did not fit in my regular layouts, or that aren't as good, but still story worthy have a home that is fun and colorful just like my traditional layouts.

Products used:

Lagoon Chevron D-ring album Z2090

Memory Protectors Variety Pack Z3026

Horizontal Memory Protectors 4113

Picture My Life Surf's Up Scrapbooking program Z1946

Picture My Life Skylark Scrapbooking Program 1947

Hopscotch Picture My Life- retired and unavailable

To get your Picture My Life cards and sheet protectors head on over to my website and let's get those pictures out of their boxes and into an album today.

Happy scrapbooking!

Hopscotch Meets Soccer

I know, I know, the Hopscotch paper is retired and you all want examples of layouts using the paper you can still get through my website. I promise to work on something with current papers soon and share next week.

Sorry for the bad pictures, it is an overcast day and I am using my iPod.  Anyway, I had a ton of pictures from when my oldest played soccer in the fall of 2012.  She had fun, but soccer is not her cup of tea, she just wants everyone to feel good and score goals no matter what team they are on.  I used a lot of retired Close to My Heart product: the patterned paper, the Picture My Life Hopscotch cards, and the colored brads.  

I love using the Picture My Life cards in a layout, they help with the journaling spots and the title (I can not be the only person who has a problem coming up with titles, please tell me I am not the only one!). Also the Extra Thick Twine is really fun to play with and adds a lot of dimension to layouts and cards. Don't hate me but I like it more than the bakers twine.

If you have a lot of pictures from one event or a lot of pictures you want to group together on one layout check out Close to My Heart's How to Books.  They have so many layouts that use a ton of photos. Another little tip: if you don't have the size of photo called for use more than one photo to fill the spot.  This layout caked for two 5x7s and I didn't have any. I cut two photos to 5x3.25 so that they would fit on the 5x7 photo mat and still have patterned paper all around the photos.

Thanks for stopping by and happy scrapbooking!

Punches

Challenge 10 in Super Stashbusters was hard for me because I do not have a lot of punches.  The challenge was to let the punches speak, well I have two a corner rounder and a heart.  So I used the corner rounder to make scallop borders and I used the heart to make umm... hearts.  Crazy I know.

My youngest was crazy and was crawling by 4 months and this layout is all about that.  It is kind of nice because I didn't need a ton of journaling to finish the layout.  

Products used:

Hopscotch Paper X7194B

Colonial White Cardstock

Silver Shimmer Trim !799

Junebug Puffies Z3038

Handwritten Print Alphabet E1030

Black Ink Z2105

Smoothie Ink Z2196

Hopscotch layout #2

I decided to create the second layout using the Hopscotch workshop on the go.  I ended up rotating the pages to work with horizontal photos (apparently I live horizontally since most of my photos are horizontal).  So once again, make the sketch or the guides work for you, they are made to make your scrapbooking faster, simpler and easier.

Products used:

Hopscotch workshop on the go G1091

Flaxen ink Z2642

Glacier ink Z2641

Slate ink Z2173

Smoothie ink Z2196

Cricut artbooking collection Z1906

Marcy journaling pen Z1979

All of the above are available on my website at sharesa.ctmh.com

Hopscotch workshop on the go

I love the new Hopscotch paper and thought that the workshop on the go was a lot of fun.  There were a few things that I didn't like and I felt it was all a little busy, so I changed it to something that I loved. To do this I didn't do all of the cricut cutting and I moved the journaling as well.  So if you get a workshop on the go and you just aren't feeling every little detail it is okay to change it and make it work for you.

A couple of tips for this workshop:

Spray glue works wonders on Cricut cuts, such as the photo mats that needed colonial white strips and the photos adhered before glueing to the layout.

To get the pinwheel look the easiest thing to do is to put them all on the block and then turn your stamp sheet over and hold your block over the pinwheel shape and adjust your stamps till you get the shape you are looking for.

Use tape on the back of your layout to hold the twine.

Products used:

Hopscotch workshop on the go G1091

Flaxen ink Z2642

Glacier ink Z2641

Slate ink Z2173

Smoothie ink Z2196

Cricut artbooking collection Z1906

Marcy journaling pen Z1979

You can get all of the above at my website: Sharesa.ctmh.com

Ombré in scrapbooking

There are so many fun ways to add the ombré effect to your scrapbooking pages.  You can use paper, watercolor pencils, ink, misting etc. to give your background or embellishments a fun and trendy look.  Challenge 6 in Super Stashbusters was to use the ombré on a layout in some way. I opted to follow the sketch and used paper in my background to create the ombré.  I found that I didn't have a ton of patterned paper that would go together and create the look I was going for, so I had to use some background stamps to add some visual interest to my plain old cardstock.

Here is the final result:

Products used:

Flaxen ink Z2642

Desert sand ink Z2118

Bamboo ink Z2103

Cocoa ink Z2114

Glacier ink Z2641

Clay ShinHan maker

Peacock green ShinHan marker

White daisy cardstock

Desert sand cardstock

Bamboo cardstock 

Cocoa cardstock

Glacier cardstock 

Hopscotch paper X7149B

D1540 in the background 

E1030 handwritten 

A1150 charming chevrons 

C1618 Year>>Noted (only available this month for $5 with a $50 purchase on my website)

Stamp from the hopscotch scrapbooking workshop on the go

Junebug puffies Z3038

Teal shimmer trim Z1918

Tags Z1684

Aqua dots Z1853

All of the above is available on my website at Sharesa.ctmh.com