4-Alarm Kid

Another layout in progress that has finally been completed to share with you today!

The base layout was designed by Tami Bastiaans. Here is her completed layout with the same foundation.

To embellish this layout, I dipped into my stash of wood veneer. Found the asterisks, from Project Life, I believe and the bigger pieces from Elle's Studio.

My son, in helping me limit my choices, selected the Sizzix Font for the title and helped me cut it out. 

Sprinkled some Mickey heads punched from red cardstock to cluster with the wood veneer.

For this layout, I opted to get my Cricut out and create the Pluto and the fire hydrant. This only happens on extremely rare occasions, me feeling the need to use my Cricut. I happened to have that complete in the second phase of this layout, and have no idea how long ago. 

For the journaling, I repeated the shape from the sign on the left hand page by hand cutting the shape and embellishing with eyelets.

Love to have this join the other completed pages in my Disneyland albums. Funny how things I have now and are into using are making it on these older layouts that would not have had the added touches back then.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope to have a few more pages to share soon!

Friends

When taking Stacy Julian's class, Inspired Scrapbooking at Big Picture classes, one month's inspiration was the people in your life that have made an impact. Then when Ali Edward's Story Stamp theme was Bond, I came back to the idea of the story of my friend Tami to create the journaling. 

Most of the products I chose for this were papers and ephemera from an old line from Amy Tangerine. Paired it with her sticker book as well. The friends title is an acrylic piece from a SCT Sampler kit.

Did some stamping using Ali Edwards Story Stamp for Bond. You can see it in use on the US circle on the pull out journaling, the "friends bonding" phrase under the second photo, the phrase in the upper right circle die cut, and just right of the blue strip near the bottom. Love when I can sprinkle the stamps around the page!

Of course, I had too much to say to comfortably fit my journaling on the layout with the ability to play with the design and products, so I opted to create this pull out. I went back and forth if I should create some smaller page using a 4x12 page protector (fuse one) or not. I wasn't sure what would be the next layout in the album and I didn't want to worry about the other side being blank or moving it around in the album as I completed more pages, so I tucked it behind the layout in the page protector.

So glad to have this story written. So glad to have this layout added to my albums! 

Hope to share more layouts with you soon. My priority this January will be to complete (start too!) 2019's December Daily so my focus will not be on layouts. Not sure if I will have much to share with the exception of some pages in progress I have managed to complete. 

Happy New Year!

The Enchanted Tiki Room

I don't usually redo layouts. But when I was attacking my pages in progress pile, there were a few layouts that I just couldn't finish. I didn't love the products I had used. I didn't like the photo placement and more. 

So I decided to start over. The only thing I kept were the photos. Here is the layout from this do over.

After I pulled all of my photos from the old layout, I went through some sketch books in search for a layout design. I had in mind to used the floral patterned paper and the Shimelle Box of Crayons sticker folder to start. Things I was excited to use.

Luckily one of the first sketches from Scrapbook Generation's I ran across was going to work with the photos I had. It was in their travel sketch book.

Instead of a title, I used the photo of the sign in the park in its place. Shimelle's stickers were the perfect embellishments for this page!

For one of my border strips, I used my Martha Stewart fringe scissors to add some texture to this layout. A technique I have been wanting to try for some time. I also used some gold sequins that already had adhesive on them from one of my SCT sampler kits to add a bit of bling.

I created a bit of a photo collage with some 2x2 and one 2x4 photos to keep everything together. Love that toucan sticker!

The border is made up from a red 6x6 paper from my stash, yellow washi I backed with cardstock to make more visible, and the fringed paper.

Created a journaling block and embellished with more awesome birds from Shimelle's sticker folder. Love them so much!

So there you go. A page out of my pages in progress pile and I turned it into one that I LOVE! Once I gave myself permission to start over, this layout came together in no time!

Thanks for checking this out! Have more layouts scheduled so keep an eye out for more!

Explorer

Some of the page kits are so darn cute from Just Kitting, you just have to make them work! This layout with Randall from Up, I couldn't pass up!

The only modification on this page that I did was I added some epoxy stickers on the photos and journaling spot.

Love the flocked paper used on the dog!

So much detail to Randall, and so fun to put together! There is even a bit of movement to the binoculars on his arm!

This one is another that just needed the journaling and date added, but I had come across the stickers and found them to be a perfect finishing touch and felt this one done.

Thanks for checking this out!

Bakery Tour

The layout I have to share today is another from Just Kitting.

I don't remember what the original to the kit design and where I used my own stuff. I know I put a ton more photos on here than was intended. 

Gotta love this paper piecing from Ratatouille though, right!

This page had been done, was just missing the journaling and date. Now it is complete and in my album! 

Thanks for stopping by!

You are One!

I don't even remember when I started creating this layout! I know I selected the photos and had them printed back with Scrapbookpictures.com, with their 2x2 photo prints, so it was quite a while ago!

I do not know who made the patterned paper on the background. But the photos and paper foundation was created and has been on my pile to complete for a long time. I finally created the title for this page, added the journaling and the finishing touches.

 I created the title using some word phrase Thickers as well as some chip board alphas from Bella Blvd.

I used some hearts from the word phrase Thickers set as well as some stickers from the Hooray! collection as a finishing touch.

My son recently just celebrated his 13th birthday, so I am so happy to have this finished and included in his baby album!

Off to finish some more layouts! Will have another to share with you soon!

Saucer Boy

Here is a layout I recently found when putting layouts away in albums that I realized I had never shared here. I also realized it didn't have a date on it so I finished off with the date. Here is my son at 9 months old. He loved his saucer!

The papers I used here are from SEI. I created this so long ago, I want to say this layout design was inspired by a sketch, but I can't remember. 

 

This layout uses stamps and coordinating punch from Stampin' Up! as well as stitched buttons and metal brads. 

The title was created using these plastic tiles that are super fun from my stash.

Thanks for stopping by to check out this oldie but goodie layout!