Finishing Layouts

See this photo? I took it during Stash Bash as Simple Scrapper that I participated in in 2014. If I would have taken a photo of that same paper tray before this year's Stash Bash, it would have pretty much looked the same. Sure, my craft area is no longer in this space, since I had to move down in the basement of my home, giving this room up for the baby I had in 2015. I also no longer store it on my work space. But the number of layouts on this hasn't really changed since then. There may have been some pages on there completed, but I am sure I have added to it as well.

During October at Simple Scrapper's Refresh, it was all about finishing. I had quite a few pages that needed finishing. This pile has been there for way too long and I was finally ready to address it.

Most of these layouts needed journaling. A handful, just the date. Some needed to be reworked a bit, in need of a title or finishing touches. 

I came to realize, most of these pages I made at a crop. I have since learned to have my journaling written before I create pages at a crop, or they will wind up in a big pile, needing to be finished. For the past few years, I have been starting with the story so the journaling is the first thing I do, so I don't have as many pages left in progress. 

My style has changed a bit as well as I stopped receiving as many predesigned kits to start from. The layouts I am sharing in this post came from my mom's scrapbook kit business at www.justkitting.citymax.com

Most of her kits are theme based and have paper piecing on them. That is her niche and she comes out with 20 original designs every other month!

I found that I was moving away from two-pages and themes, and with limited time to scrap 2 children, plus the 2 more I have had since, I wanted to scrap my way and do the creating myself with the products I love using techniques I love.  

She still creates amazing kits, especially Disney themed pages, so check her out if you like what you see.

When I saw this layout kit, I swore my mom designed it with these photos of mine in mind. Once I got the journaling completed and added to the tags, I stamped the date and called this one done.

For this layout, I modified it to have the circle cut out on the first page. My son had made and invitation to the show and they handed out programs that I wanted to include. I am usually horrible about including memoriablia, so this was a win for me!

Here is the view from the back of the layout.

I also modified the title which was drummer boy as well as the paper piecing to fit my story. I also added a few finishing touches with an Ali Edwards banner stamp on the journaling block as well as some Elle's Studio circle dies.

Glad to have this one in the books as well!

I have more Just Kitting layouts that have just a few more finishing touches and can share soon as well as some other layouts I have finished that were in that big "pages in progress" pile.

Thanks for looking!