I’m back with another layout… Surprised? ;) This time it’s one that was featured in the September edition of the Better Living Through Scrapbooking newsletter. Remember to sign up for it on the home page, as there will be lots of inspiration delivered to your inbox (and maybe even coupons…!). Here’s… 1987, baby. Supply list: Cardstock: Discount Cardstock “Honey Hopsack Treasure,” “Kraft” Patterned Paper: Graphic 45 Christmas Past Collection “Christmas Wishes,” Cosmo Cricket “Tank Mix: Die Cuts” Alphas: American Crafts Vera (Black Vinyl) & Daiquiri (Black Foam) Thickers Stamp: Fontwerks “Notes” by Kate Teague Ink: Rubber Stampede Ribbon: Ki Memories/Love, Elsie Forrest Collection Tiny Ribbon Rub Ons: Crate Paper Season Collection Transparencies: Hambly “Elephants in a Row” Overlay, Basic Grey Junebug Collection “Take Note” Other: Plastic beads, thread Journaling: Circa Feb. ‘88 — I am a child of the 80s & I love it! I also love chillin’ on the couch, which is what I was doing here — at Oma & Opa’s w/ all my toys & my comfy blanket. Ah, to be a baby again & carefree. Would be awesome. :) Chosen criteria: 1. Scan the original photo and print it using your home printer or photo printing service, or take the photo to your local copy shop and have them make a color copy of the photo so that you can scrap the photo and save the original. 3. Frame the photo on your page in an unusual way. 5. Use lace or ribbon on your page. Techniques: Scanning old photos is great for a number of reasons. My favorites? First of all, making a digital copies of photos which are precious to you is always a good idea. You never know what may happen to the originals! Secondly, Photoshop, anyone? For example, my baby eyes were red in the original of this photo, so Photoshop helped me get back to my actual eye color. Lastly, without scanning, the four copies of this photo would not have been possible! I chose to frame the last photo on the very right by cutting up a rather large transparency (take a look for yourself — it’s pretty huge: http://www.basicgrey.com/scrapbook/shop/product/jun-1870/collection:current) and piecing parts of it back together to create a custom frame. I also used a Hambly overlay to partially cover the other photos, keeping them from immediately jumping out at the viewer’s eye. Ribbon is awesome, and here I used it in pretty much the standard way: By adhering long, horizontal strips of it. Never underestimate the powerful punch a ribbon border can pack in a design! All the bits of Graphic 45 paper were cut by hand. They’re all the toys from the “Christmas Wishes” paper. I thought them very fitting to this project. The different vintages styles colliding on this page make me very, very happy! Colorful and fun. Instead of using letters from packaging as one of the possible criteria suggested, I was inspired to use numbers from a Cosmo Cricket die cut sheet. The blue and white of the number outlines really makes my outfit in the photos stand out!

I’m back with another layout… Surprised? ;) This time it’s one that was featured in the September edition of the Better Living Through Scrapbooking newsletter. Remember to sign up for it on the home page, as there will be lots of inspiration delivered to your inbox (and maybe even coupons…!).

Here’s…

1987, baby.

Supply list:

  • Cardstock: Discount Cardstock “Honey Hopsack Treasure,” “Kraft”
  • Patterned Paper: Graphic 45 Christmas Past Collection “Christmas Wishes,” Cosmo Cricket “Tank Mix: Die Cuts”
  • Alphas: American Crafts Vera (Black Vinyl) & Daiquiri (Black Foam) Thickers
  • Stamp: Fontwerks “Notes” by Kate Teague
  • Ink: Rubber Stampede
  • Ribbon: Ki Memories/Love, Elsie Forrest Collection Tiny Ribbon
  • Rub Ons: Crate Paper Season Collection
  • Transparencies: Hambly “Elephants in a Row” Overlay, Basic Grey Junebug Collection “Take Note”
  • Other: Plastic beads, thread

Journaling:

Circa Feb. ‘88 — I am a child of the 80s & I love it! I also love chillin’ on the couch, which is what I was doing here — at Oma & Opa’s w/ all my toys & my comfy blanket. Ah, to be a baby again & carefree. Would be awesome. :)

Chosen criteria:

1. Scan the original photo and print it using your home printer or photo printing service, or take the photo to your local copy shop and have them make a color copy of the photo so that you can scrap the photo and save the original.
3. Frame the photo on your page in an unusual way.
5. Use lace or ribbon on your page.

Techniques:

Scanning old photos is great for a number of reasons. My favorites? First of all, making a digital copies of photos which are precious to you is always a good idea. You never know what may happen to the originals! Secondly, Photoshop, anyone? For example, my baby eyes were red in the original of this photo, so Photoshop helped me get back to my actual eye color. Lastly, without scanning, the four copies of this photo would not have been possible!

I chose to frame the last photo on the very right by cutting up a rather large transparency (take a look for yourself — it’s pretty huge: http://www.basicgrey.com/scrapbook/shop/product/jun-1870/collection:current) and piecing parts of it back together to create a custom frame. I also used a Hambly overlay to partially cover the other photos, keeping them from immediately jumping out at the viewer’s eye.

Ribbon is awesome, and here I used it in pretty much the standard way: By adhering long, horizontal strips of it. Never underestimate the powerful punch a ribbon border can pack in a design!

All the bits of Graphic 45 paper were cut by hand. They’re all the toys from the “Christmas Wishes” paper. I thought them very fitting to this project. The different vintages styles colliding on this page make me very, very happy! Colorful and fun.

Instead of using letters from packaging as one of the possible criteria suggested, I was inspired to use numbers from a Cosmo Cricket die cut sheet. The blue and white of the number outlines really makes my outfit in the photos stand out!

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