Day 214: Tag Football

For this football layout, I used paper from Bella Blvd as the background on the left page.  I framed my son's team photo and individual photo with a frame from Wild Asparagus. I used a similar color green card stock from Stampin' Up! as background for the Joe Namath quote and the grid with the chipboard football icons. The grid stamp was actually part of a 6-frame postage stamp by Just for Fun. Ink was StazOn by Tsukineko.The chipboard title and football icons are by Little Yellow Bicycle. The "leather" corner triangles have been in my stash for ages.  They are from Fresh Cuts by Rebecca Sower.

The right page features paper from Jillibean Soup.  I simply added some orange photo corners (paper by Bo Bunny) to bring out the orange shirts of the players and to give a little pop from the busy background. I had some sports stickers in my stash, and added the football and helmet to give the page a little more dimension.

While these two pages aren't matchy-matchy, I think the green on the left page ties in with all the grass in the photos on the right page.  I also needed something to brighten those dark photos, since they were taken in the early evening and the light was not optimal. I think the orange shirts were tied in on both pages with the use of the orange photo corners.

Day 72: Ballet Dancing Doll Card

I made this card for a little girl who is in the hospital with heart failure.  I thought it might entertain her since the ballerina moves (note the brads at her shoulders and on the tutu). The stamp is from Limited Edition.  I used Memento ink to stamp the ballerina doll on to Neenah paper and colored her with  the Copic markers that I won at the Stamp Scrap Art Tour. The background paper is from BoBunny.

Day 63: Candy Land Layout Planned

My little boy has loved playing the game Candy Land from the time he was little, and still enjoys playing it, so I wanted to document his love of the game with a layout.  I selected "Bubble Gum Popsicle" paper by BoBunny to use as the background for my two-page layout.  This paper is printed on both sides; I decided to use the white side with multi-colored polka dots.  I thought the primary colors of the dots mimicked the colors in the game board. Since my son was wearing red, I matted my photos on "Real Red" card stock from Stampin' Up! I had purchased a set of Candy Land embellishments by Jolee's to use, so I arranged all of my photos and the embellishments where I wanted them on the background paper.  I will work on this more tomorrow.

Day 61: Boy with Flower

How do you make a scrapbook page for a boy without having it look too girly?

From the time my kids were little, I always told them if they blew on the fluffy white dandelions gone to seed that they could make a wish. We always called them "wish flowers".  I wanted to capture that memory so on Mother's Day 2009, I snapped some pictures of the kids wishing on dandelions.

I used "Cotton Candy Popsicle" by BoBunny for my background paper. The wispy white flowers put me in mind of dandelions gone to seed.  I didn't want to embellish the flowers too much, but I thought the lime green brads (Oriental Trading Company) added a little dimension to the page.  The fuzzy blue letters from Pressed Petals convey the feeling of the wispy dandelions.  The green dragonfly (American Crafts) makes me think of the dandelion flying away on the wind once my son made his wish.  The words (My Mind's Eye) convey all those things we do when we make a wish; we dream, imagine, wish for the impossible.  I used letters by Marjolein Bastien to record the date.  Those letters were great to use as they are half blue and half green.  I tinted the photo yellow and added the writing on the photo at www.picnik.com. I think it is a great way to journal that does not use up other space on the scrapbook page.

Day 57: Using Coordinating Papers

Today I was working on a scrapbook page featuring a photo of me and my husband.  In the photo, I was wearing a green sweater and he had on a blue striped shirt, and we were positioned against a black background.  From my paper stash, I pulled out two double-sided sheets (a total of four different designs) of BoBunny's "Abbey Road" collection, which were in shades of greens and blues.  I played around for a few minutes to see which combinations I liked together better.  I chose a paper with an ivory background and blue and green floral print as a frame behind my photo, and a paper with a light blue background with blue, green, and white swirls as the background for the entire page.  A title and a few well-placed embellishments made this a quick and easy page, completed in under an hour. Using coordinating papers makes it easy to combine different patterns because the colors mix and match easily.