unique and quirky scrapbooking and crafting
When it came time to put the title on this “hunt eggs” page I fell in love with those big yellow letters. The only problem was the fact that I had used the letter U on some other layout. I was bummed but I was not defeated. The empty space remained on the sticker [...]
Altering your kits just a bit to fit your needs based on the photos you’re trying to scrapbook can really make for some fast layouts. This is a kit I did at CKC in Louisville, Kentucky during February of 2009 in a Basic Grey class. Then I went to visit my sister that Spring and [...]
I filled up these pages with photos of buildings at the University of Virginia but then I found myself with two dilemmas – the need for some journaling space and how to evenly display those photos. The pages themselves were quite dark because I used the school colors (or as close as I could get) [...]
The two pages on this layout were never really meant to go together…before they met me. Ha! I had some wonderful photos of the gardens at the Biltmore but I was piecing together pages because I was at a friend’s house and I was using papers I’d stuck in my bag. I was not going [...]
Primary colors go together with almost any variation of the three colors: red, yellow and blue. If you’re in a quandary for colors on a page you’re contemplating, then primary colors can get you out of a creative rut and get you going on creating the page. This “new toy” layout features my husband [...]
I have found a simple and fast way to make a great photo stand out – Extreme cropping! Well I don’t know if it’s an official term or not, but I consider cutting into your photo to cut out a person quite extreme. On this “sugar baby” layout, I cropped one picture of my nephew [...]
Have you ever considered drawing on your layouts? Even if you’re not an artist with a pen or paintbrush, you can create a very special embellishment. Using a wide-tip white journaling pen, I drew the flourishes on this “delicious tradition” layout. I would have liked to use a really great white rub-on but I didn’t [...]
So you’re going to a scrapbook retreat! How exciting! You are in for a GREAT time with your girlfriends and you will have the opportunity to complete several pages. I’ve had the good fortune of going on a few retreats with my scrapping buddies and I have found that having a packing list is uber [...]
I’ve created some great “mega pack” options for the digital scrapbookers out there. They are polka dot papers that come in many basic colors with several different sized dots. Then I did something I almost never see packaged together – I included the reverse images. On some of the pages the dots are colored with white [...]
Who doesn’t love great bling? There are definitely several options out there when it comes to choosing some bling for your layout. I used basic bling on this “tramp troop” layout. I simply set clear stones in a pattern mimicking the trampoline jumps which are the subject of my photos. I visualized it by treating [...]