Day 274: Glamour Shots: Glitter Time: Completed!

Today I finished my Glitter Time page. I used a clock paper by Teresa Collins as the background page.  I used two black brackets by Laserline underneath my matted photos.  Glitter paper by American Crafts. I cut out the fashion cards from a page of Graphic 45 paper. Flowers by Prima, Ribbon in Razzleberry from Stampin' Up! Filmstrip stamp by Just for Fun, stamped on cream paper in my stash with Memento Black ink. Modeling sticker by 7Gypsies.

Day 270: Glamour Shots: Fashionista X 3

Today I worked on this layout of 3 smaller proofs.  I had fun using this Graphic 45 "Fashionista" paper.
I also used some 7Gypsies stickers, a Heidi Swapp clock, some hat pins, a film strip ribbon, and a stapler to add some flair to these fashion photos.

Day 233: SEI Scrapbook Kit

Tonight I worked on a photo of the family.  I used some quotations from 7Gypsies as a page border.

Day 199: Touchdown Scrapbook Page, Continued

Today I continued working on the "Touchdown" football page of my son.  My chipboard letters were dry, so I added some silver dots to the letter "D"( it was manufactured by Deja Views) to match the "MVP" letters made by Little Yellow Bicycle. I used StazOn ink from Tsukineko and silver (heat) embossing powder from Stampin' Up to alter the color of some star clips purchased from Oriental Trading Company.  These added a little bit of pizzazz to the dark letters, and, also covered up a flaw in the letter V.  Sometimes having to fix mistakes or flaws ends up adding a little extra "something-something" to your work!  I also ended up trimming my son's 8" x 10" photo to 4.25" x 10" so that more of the football would show.  Don't be afraid to crop your photos...all I lost was some blue background , but I gained a much more interesting scrapbook page because I used an unusually shaped photo.

Day 187: A Boy Is A Joy

For this page of my son, I used this brown football paper from Echo Park Paper as a background to coordinate with the sepia tones of the photo.  The red wood paper I used as a mat for the photo and for the tag is from My Mind's Eye. I made some photo corners from a fabric tag by Making Memories and put the photo corners under the upper left corner of the tag and the lower right corner of the photo mat.  Usually I would put them on top; however, I think because the texture and color of the fabric made them look heavier than the red paper, they looked better underneath. The sign " A Boy is a Joy" was by EK Success.  I punched out the spots for the brads, added red brads from Oriental Trading Company and some twine from my stash.  I also cut a football  out of the background paper and used it to fill in the "o" in "boy". I used a football-shaped sticker from 7Gypsies to cover up the "o" in joy; the sticker says "amazing".

Day 49: F is for Family

Continuing to work on those family photos tonight, I titled our family portrait, "F is for Family".  I used a turquoise paper from Stampin' Up! as my background page. I placed our family photo (8" x10") on the left hand side of the page. I cut down a pair of scroll photo corners from Laserline (based right here in Washington, Illinois) and put one in the upper left corner and one in the lower right corner of our photo.  I used teal pearls from Jolee's on each of the scrolls to add dimension to the photo corners. I cut out a large size black oval and a medium size turquoise oval (papers from Stampin' Up!; die cuts and machine by Sizzix), ran them through my Xyron machine, then layered the turquoise oval onto the black oval.  I used the Curlie Girlie  "F" alphabet die from Sizzix to cut out the "F" monogram from black paper, ran it through the Xyron, and layered that onto the ovals. I placed that in the center of the remaining 3.5" on the right side of the paper, even with the top of my photo. I also used  some really pretty silver alphabet brads with a black scroll design (Colorbok) to spell out "family" below the "F" monogram.  Some family definition stickers (7Gypsies), a green and turquoise rub-on (Colorbok), some turquoise ribbon from my stash, and some teal pearls (Jolee's) completed the page.