Mini Book Monday

A little late, but I forgot to take pictures of them on Monday :)

First up: Elf on the Shelf Tag mini:

I inked the edges of some plain manilla shipping tags, then layered a little bit of patterned paper on the front with a tag and some ribbon. I wanted it to be a pretty simple album, so other than the first page with a short blurb about what Elf on the Shelf is, the rest of the album is a variation on this:
dates stamped on the edges with a strip of patterned paper leftover from the December Daily albums under an inked photo.

And the second album:
I fell in love with the Little Yellow Bicycle Hello Fall line when it was released last year, but we don't really have "fall" down here, or we kind of do, but not until December. The 6x12 album bases don't tend to last long at Archivers, so I went ahead and grabbed it, along with the Hello Fall 6x12 pad and chipboard accent pack. When we did get to Oyster Creek for an attempt at Christmas pictures in early December, the leaves were gorgeous, so I decided to go ahead and make my Hello Fall album. For the cover, I added some brown glitter Thickers letters that I found on clearance at Hobby Lobby. Some of the interior pages:

I was running low on accent pieces, so I added the 10 things pocket and some of the chipboard die cuts from the Deja Views Fall page kit at Hobby Lobby.


Not a lot of journaling, but I may go back and add a few things here and there.

365 Layouts total: 12o layouts and 5 mini albums

Some one pagers

My first attempt at misting. Used some OA Sprinklers on the white background; just a couple of spritzes to tone down the brightness of the white. OA Rocket age paper and accents. Also used the copics for the first time on a layout (colored in "Man in the Moon")
The nice thing about the typewriter? Being able to pound out journaling on the fly. The downside? No spell check. ;) Gotta fix one of the strips.
A little bit of the new MME Miss Caroline line, mixed with a photo layover from the Lost and Found 2 line.
Echo Park paper, green K & Co paper from the Halloween pad, StampinUp notebook punch, and MM journal block and letter stickers.
Foil paper from HL, green from MM and red from Crate Paper, gemstone letters from HL and journal block from Michaels.

I think that is officially the last of my Christmas photos, but I can't guarantee it.

365 Layouts total: 120 layouts and 3 mini albums

Halloweeny Fun

Allison Davis/Sketch Support sketch, American Crafts/Recollections Night Fall paper, Jolees pumpkin stickers and WRMK tag for title.
K & Co paper, Deja Views journaling die cut tucked under the pic and an Avery label.
K & Co. papers and photo mat, Deja Views journal square, and colored bling from Michaels.
Old Daisy D Halloween paper, MME Mischevous diamond pattern paper, HL glitter border sticker, MME punch out tag, Echo Park cut out and MM clear die cuts.

365 Layouts total: 115 and 3 mini albums

A couple of quick ones

Paper and label are from a Recollections pad from Michaels, all stickers are from HL.
Paper from MME. After I trimmed it down to 8.5x11 I trimmed the banner from the cut off piece and reapplied it to the corner. After that I couldn't come up with anything else that wasn't distracting, so I mounted the photo on brown cardstock and added a little journaling.

365 Layouts total: 111 layouts and 3 mini albums

Project Life, week 6

So, I had printed out these free journaling cards from Cathy Zielske and then stamped the dates at the top...and we had another gray and blah, week, but I didn't want to waste the ink and ditch the journaling cards, so the results is a rather bright and springy layout. This is the first PL layout that I didn't work on as the week went on, rather waiting until the next week to put it together. This is also the first week I did a day by day style of journaling card. I've got to say, our life is pretty darn boring so I don't know if I'll do it again. :)

Left side:
The bad part about all the free journaling cards floating around is that they are sized for the official Project Life page protectors, where the specific openings for said journaling cards are much smaller than my regular page protectors, so most of them need to be mounted on cardstock so they aren't floating around. I played with different papers before settling on a sheet of Echo Park paper from the Playground paper kit. Each 12x12 piece of paper can be cut down to six 4x6 cards, so that also gave me an extra to use for the title and one of the smaller photos. Title block has an Avery label with the dates stamped on, some Doodlebug stickers and a pic I took of Brandon using my phone, using the Fast Snap app (Droid). Next is a collage of Monday stuff made in Photosheet. Bottom left pic is a BH double journal card with a photo of our shakes taken with my phone and a bit of Chick Fil A logo cut from a nugget box. Lastly is a pic of the boys snapped at home.

Right side:
A pic of all the crayons Jacob snagged from my school supply stash (journaling on an Avery label); photo of my nephew and his family and me, with a Martha Stewart Avery label; the front of one of the Crayola boxes; photo of the books we are reading this week with a Martha Stewart Avery label, and a photo of B printed through Photosheet, with a Doodlebug sticker and an October Afternoon label sticker.

365 Layouts total: 109 and 3 mini albums

EP Season's Greetings Paper Pack

I love just about every collection from Echo Park, and even though I said I wasn't going to buy any more Christmas paper last year, I snapped this up as soon as it came in stock at Archivers.

I (and my overloaded box of Christmas paper) decided I would try and do as many of my Christmas layouts with the paper kit as possible. As usual, I did not buy any "extras" from the line (brads, chipboard stickers, etc.). For some reason, I did buy a second sheet of the small print poinsettia paper, as seen below.
I added a flower from Hobby Lobby and a small sticker from Bella Blvd.
The red strip is the backside of one of the above sheets. I added an old MME frame and some lace from Hobby Lobby. Brandon was goofing off with the camera on the last shot, and of course it ended up being the best one. There was no real way to edit it, so I used it as is.
I love these stickers from HL, but they are a pain to get off the backing sheet and apply. I stamped an AE stamp around the edge of the white paper in alternating Jenni Bowlin inks. Under the tree photos is some white paper edged with a Fiskars punch with a little bit of green rick rack thrown on for good measure.
I think this was my least favorite one of the bunch. I worked on moving stuff around and different papers for over an hour before settling on this. Not great, but passable.
The Toys for Boys and Girls sticker was an easy choice :)
Printed the photo as a 3.5 square in Photosheet, so I trimmed it to look like a poloroid. Extra package sticker is from Michaels. May go back and print out the Archivers logo to put on the brown bag.
I guess it was a good thing I didn't start Elf on a Shelf until the 6th...used a 2.5 inch square punch to punch the pics. In hindsight, it probably would have been easier to make a collage on the computer, but I had already printed the pics.
I wanted blue letters but didn't have any big enough, so I had the bright idea to cover chipboard with some of the paper. I made it a little less time consuming by covering the front of the letters with double stick tape and then laying them face down on the paper, rather than trying to modpodge them. Eliminated the mess and the drying time.
I actually intended to use the paper on the other side of the plaid, but when flipping it over to add adhesive I liked it better so I called Rick in to choose, and he chose the plaid. The only thing not from the kit is the flower from HL.
I had printed the smaller pics as part of a sheet from Photosheet, but only 3 were for Christmas, so I had to decide how to use them. I like how the banner turned out. This was the last full sheet of paper other than the striped one that I had been cutting strips from. Doodlebug twine.
Cut strips from the hexagon paper to "frame" the pics. I liked the subway art sticker from the pack, but it was 1)black and 2) referenced snow, so I used the letter stickers to mimic it.
I liked the mini bingo sticker, but it didn't really stand out from the pattern paper, so I found a scrap of black in my scrap tower. I like it, it kind of reminds me of a Santa belt buckle.
I thought I was done and then remembered I hadn't done a page with our Christmas card yet, so I started moving around what I did have left and ended up with sort of a mish mash. After 13 layouts this is what I had left from the kit:

I didn't want to add a bunch more paper to my scrap pile, so I cute the two strips that were almost 6x12 down to make 4 4x6 cards, took out the journaling cards, and then used some of the leftover strips and stickers to make a set of journaling cards. Now I have a Christmas-y set ready for Project Life in December.

365 Layouts total: 108 layouts and 3 mini albums. I was on a roll last night and am now slightly ahead of pace, especially since there are two more completed layouts on my desk waiting to be photographed. :)

Blast from the Past 2009

One of the label making companies needs to come out with a label maker with thinner tape and a cute font. They'd make a fortune from scrapbookers.

We started the blog in mid-2009 so after these all my layouts are already on here.

Blast from the Past observations:

1) I tend to favor 2 page layouts

2)I still (and always have) favored patterned paper and use it as my main product focus

3)even though I say I don't like my beach and pool layouts, most of them made it on to my favorites list, so how bad can they be?

4)I don't use as many black and white photos as I used to

5)I'm still too lazy to edit my photos