Day 226: SEI Scrapbook Kit

Today I started working on a scrapbook kit by SEI.  I had purchased it quite a while ago and decided I should put it together.  The pages were already planned out, but honestly, I don't like some of the layouts.  I am using the materials in the kit and putting my own twist on each page.  It is interesting to just work from a certain color palette and scrapbook line for an entire scrapbook.  I rarely do it.  In a way, it is interesting to have to be so limited.  I am getting very creative with using different size papers on a page. I think this kit must have been made before embellishments became more "chunky". I really like the depth that embellishments add to a page, so I am using some from my stash.

The two pages I completed tonight highlighted some family Christmas portrait collages we had made at Sears.

Day 58: In My Daughter's Eyes Altered Record Album & Scrapbook Page

I always get the kids' photos taken on their birthdays at Sears.  I really like the portraits taken by their photographers.  There is one pose they do called "bird's eye" where they have the child lie on the floor and the photographer positions the camera looking down onto their face.  My daughter's eyes really stood out in this photo, which made me think of the song by Martina McBride, "In My Daughter's Eyes", so that is the title of this two page layout.

I printed out the lyrics to "In My Daughter's Eye", cut them into strips, and glued them on to an old record album, which I decorated with flowers.  It is a good way to recycle an old record album, and to include the lyrics in the scrapbook layout.