Day 248: Confirmation Page Completed

I selected this paper from Stampin' Up! Designer Paper as my background paper for my Confirmation page. I used "rich razzleberry" card stock (also SU) to mat my photos and embellishments (Sandylion). I used metal letter stickers by Paperbilities to spell out "Confirmation" in the upper left corner of the page. I cut circles from the "rich razzleberry" and silver (?) card stock using my Sizzix machine and a circle die from Lifestyle Crafts.  Around the circles, I wrote Bible verses from Acts19:6 (upper right corner), 2 Corinthians 1:21 (lower right corner) and Ephesians 1:13 (lower left corner).

Day 136: Let Your Dreams Take Flight

My daughter had her photo taken at the American Girl Store and it just so happened the photo background we chose had these butterfly, flower, and heart "tattoos", which ended up placed on my daughter's arm! Playing up on that sort of hippy 70's look with the tattoos and my daughter's tie-dye look shirt, I chose to use teeny vellum butterflies on top of the photo.  I cut the butterflies out using colored vellum scraps from Hot Off the Press with a Sizzix die on my Big Shot die-cutting machine. The butterflies also influenced my choice for the title of this photo, "Let Your Dreams Take Flight". I selected the "Mini Flowers" paper by Kelly Pancci for Sandylion Designs as the background paper.  I chose the flower cut-outs, photo corners, journaling block, and the title block from a K & Co. tin of die-cuts. I think it all works together in a funky kind of way!

Day 87: Playing with Paint

I needed to scrap my son's school kindergarten photo, but to coordinate with the next page, I couldn't use the typical primary colors.  I went through my stash of papers and found "Khaki Plaid" by Kelly Panacci for Sandylion.  It is a blue and green plaid, set on the diagonal. One of the shades of blue looked good with the shirt my son was wearing, and the paper coordinated with the grandmother and grandson page I completed a couple of days ago.  But how to make the page look "school-ish"?  I jumped on the internet and typed in scrapbook school page to get some ideas.  One idea I liked was to use a piece of notebook paper behind the feature photo.  I found some ledger style paper in a pack of designer paper from Stampin' Up, and used a punch from EK Success to make it look like torn out spiral notebook paper.  Then I roughed up the edge of the notebook page so it would look ragged, like it does after you tear paper out of a notebook. I wrote the word "Kindergarten" and "2009-2010" with the teacher's name and the name of the school at the top of the ledger page (journaling pen by Creative Memories).  I found the class list and wrote all of the kids' names on the ledger paper. I set the ledger paper at an angle and then placed my son's photo on top. I used some ribbon that looks like a tape measure across the bottom of my son's photo, and attached a "k" stencil over the ribbon.  I also added a soft yellow "k" charm from Around the Block to the stencil.  Beneath the ribbon, I used some white sticker letters that look like a child's handwriting to spell out "Kindergarten 09".  I added a large letter K from Deja Views with star clips from Oriental Trading Company to the upper right hand corner of the page. I liked how the page looked, but thought it needed something else.  So, I got a sponge brush and a bottle of white paint (Plaid) and smeared it on the page randomly, even on my son's photo.  Too much white...so I got out a bottle of lettuce paint (Ranger) and added that.  Then a little more white. I never had so much fun making a scrapbook page and playing with paint!