Grandma's Love

This marks my 31st post this year (every day). I'm excited that it's turned into more of a routine and that I can share what I've been making.

I often look through magazines for inspiration when I'm scrapbooking. I will often find a layout where I like an element or two and that will give me a push to do my own. Sometimes, I create almost the same layout. I like to be creative, but sometimes I find it takes a few days of scrapbooking or stamping before I can just let go and create wildly. The past couple of weeks have been really stressful and so I've been copying layouts and ideas more.

This layout was one I saw in a magazine (and old Simple Scrapbooking magazine; man I miss that magazine). It was simple, but worked for the two 4x6 photos I had. I used a paper pack just so I could find a border that coordinated with the paper. The colours are way out of my comfort zone, but I'm happy with how it turned out. You have to have some brightness to a little girl's album, right??

Siblings

I was on a roll scrapbooking last week (which has since come to a grinding halt, but hopefully next week I can get back to it. I am down to the last few layouts of Nathalie's first year, and I'm so close I can taste it. OK, not really, but I'm really excited that I'm only a few layouts away. I did a page with two pictures of the three kids. I cut a couple papers and really struggled with what I was going to do with the paper and the pictures. I ended up moving the pictures up quite a bit on the page and liked it so much more, so yeah. It's very simple, but I still like it.


I thought it probably needs a title, but I wasn't feeling very creative and so I figured it was pretty obvious. I used my Kioshi paper pack from Basic Grey; this was the first pack I ever bought and I'm still using it years later. These things last forever. It had a great journaling box sticker too, so that part was really easy.

Paper Pack Club

I've decided to start a paper pack club. I have a few people who are interested, so I'm going ahead!

Each month, you will get a paper pack. They're my new favorite thing for scrapbooking since everything matches!! You just grab papers from the pack and they'll go together. It takes so much of the time and guesswork out of it. Anyway, each month, you'll get a paper pack and some kind of embellishment or stamp or something to go with it. I will use the paper pack and embellishment to create a layout and you'll get a copy of that layout with the instructions for recreating it. Cost will be no more than $30. Some of the packs are a bit cheaper and I'll reflect that in the price. I can't wait to get started!!

In the meantime, here is a simple layout that I did for Nathalie.

Bathtime

It's funny to go back and scrapbook these old photos. They're only 2 years old, but I have already forgotten what Nathalie was like as a baby.

This layout is so outside my colour zone. It's done in lime green which is not a colour you would find in my favorite palette. Not by a long shot, but I'm trying to branch out. The paper is from a paper pack (Dots & Stripes) by Echo Park Paper. There are 3 or 4 packs, each with different colours. Again, it was easy to grab two pieces of coordinating colours, but different patterns and know that they would go together.

Paper Packs

I love paper. I believe I've said that many times. So, I was giddy when I opened up my new paper packs. I probably don't need anymore as I'm running out of room, but I still order a few every so often. They make scrapbooking so much easier! I posted last fall about it and one of my friends bought a pack. Recently, she told me how quick her album came together because she didn't have to think about how to put paper together. It really made my day!

I have three new paper packs: two from Basic Grey and one from Echo Park. I haven't ordered packs from them before, but it looks really nice! The Basic Grey packs each have 18 double sided papers, one sheet of alphabet stickers and one sheet of cardstock stickers. The Echo Park pack has 12 double sided papers, one sheet of alphabet stickers and one sheet of element stickers.

Basic Grey: Life of the Party ($20)

Basic Grey: Hopscotch ($20)

Springtime: ($14)