LO for My Hubby

On my family blog, I made a sweet post for my husband HERE. And really wanted to use the same pictures and journaling to make a LO for his book. I used this week's sketch from Sketchy Thursdays and my stamps from CTMH.

I Believe You Can Fly...

My favorite pictures, of my favorite girl,

PLUS

my favorite sketch site and my favorite paper. The left layout is last weeks sketch from Sketchy Thursday.... yup, I am a day late to post this. I was so happy and inspired by the results I made it into a double!
Here is the sketch. Really versatile- right? The paper is from my stash from Fancy Pants! It is the Sweet Spring collection, but you can still get some HERE. The blue trim I just bought from Two Peas on clearance, also Fancy Pants!

The collection of "a's" and a stamped tag... sweet!

I used tearing and inking to rough it up a bit.

I did my journaling on the computer.

I have been collecting some great fonts from Kevin and Amanda...

who I want call Melissa and Doug-lol.

My New Favorite Layout

I started with such sweet pictures of Adelyn, my niece, and their grandmother (Lala) wearing big girly hats and this great paper from My Mind's Eye Quite Contrary line, then added it to the fun sketch from the Design Dollies challenge... out came my new favorite page! I made my own embellishment flowers, by free hand cutting nesting circles... crumbling them in my hand, inking the sides, stacking them, and then sticking a button in the middle.

Here is my big one. You can see how the flowers mimic the back ground paper.

If you have girls to scrap, you really need this paper!

And if you have great photos and great paper... you have to visit Design Dollies and checkout their creative sketches! It is also inspiring to see how other girls interpret the sketch.

Home

Since we put our first home up for sale in June, I have been thinking about making this page.
It worked out very nice with the Design Dollies September sketch challenge. (Thanks, girls!) I wanted a home-made feel to the page, so I added a border that looks like old fabric. I did this by snipping all around the edge, then running the paper under water and crumbling it just a bit. When it dried it had a lovely aged look and added texture to my page.

My journaling block was stamped and then raised with foam squares. "Home... This is the home Daddy came to after the war... this is where Mike took his first steps... Where Addy celebrated her first holidays..." and then at the bottom of the page I continued the journaling with... "This is the house we made into our first home" and then I wrote the address.

My favorite embellishment these days... a fabric flower with my great grandmothers old button in the middle. (sorry for the blur)

The last thing I did was make a pocket for a few photos I had of the inside of our home.

These slide behind the smaller winter picture and have a few tabs so you know they are there.

On the back of the matted photo I just put three slim pieces of foam to hold the extra photos in place.

There... a perfect fit!

Thanks for looking... hope you try something new on your next page!

Anniversary Week Day 2

Practical Scrappers Anniversary Challenge

Day 2: Just 1 Photo I really like the look of one larger picture on a page. I think it captures the feelings of the event and give you lots of room to journal and embellish.

It also makes for a nice lead into more photos if you want or it can stand alone.

This spread also has one for my favorite looks... torn paper! Hey, it looks great and it free!