July 2010 layouts

For the most part I scrap chronologically.  I might skip around in a given year, but I'm too OCD to not have some kind of system.  Every summer I try to finish whatever year it is that I've been scrapping.  This year it's 2010, and I have finished scrapping my pictures from July 2010 this week!!!!  Here are the layouts with a brief description of each.

 When I first starting scrapbooking I participating in a lot of swaps.  I still have a big drawer full of swap stuff!  The title and page corners are from one of those swaps.  It was a MME element swap and the colors went perfectly for this picture of my dd.  I used a sketch that I found on Pinterest and added some MME paper (which I used to collect!).

The pictures for this layout are of my dh and ds with his first show heifer.  Living in rural Oklahoma 4-H and FFA are big organizations.  In fact, when these pictures were taken my dh was the Ag teacher at school.  These organizations promote a lot of great skills, including showing animals.  My ds had shown pigs for a few years, but this was his first heifer.  She was such a sweetie too.  Anyway, I used a page kit from Paper Wishes.  In that kit I used paper, Dazzle stickers, templates for the leaves, the leaf ribbon, wooden heart buttons which I covered in gold leafing, and ribbon.  The only thing I added from my stash were the letters for the title.

This last layout was an easy one from a Scrapbook Generations kit. Most of the pictures are of my ds in a pie eating contest on the 4th of July.

CTMH Avonlea card

I also made two cards using scraps from my CTMH Avonlea paper pack and inspiration from Pinterest.  I used CTMH ink juniper and chocolate and burlap.

More layouts using Embellish It kits

I've been in the scrap room today.  Both of my children are at 4H camp until tomorrow morning, so I decided to spend the day scrapping and reading.  I'm trying to get through a biography of Alexander Hamilton that is over 800 pages.  It the book that inspire Lin-Manuel Maranda to write the new musical Hamilton that my kids and I are obsessed with at the moment.  Anyway, here are the layouts I did today.

More NYC layouts

I've been working really hard on my 2008 NYC pictures.  I finished two more layouts using those pictures and April 2016 Embellish It kit.

The top layout features pictures taken on the subway.  The bottom layout's pictures were taken while we were on the Staten Island Ferry, and as we walked up Wall Street.

More NYC layouts using Embellish It kits

I finish two more layouts using some kits.  Both of the layouts feature pictures from Central Park and used the kits from January 2016.  A funny story about our trip to Central Park.  The girls and I had totally romanticized Central Park in the winter.  We had seen all these movies with Central Park covered in beautiful white snow and ice crystals.  Instead it was muddy and gray, and we were a little disappointed.  Also, we only walked on the west side and spent just a small amount of time.  Since then I've covered the southern half of Central Park in two different season - late spring and fall.  Now I love it.

Layouts this week

I've spent the last couple of days cleaning, organizing, and rearranging my scrapbook room. However, I was able to complete a couple of pages too.  The first one uses more portrait pictures of my kiddos.  I used CTMH products and a layout I found on Pinterest for inspiration.

I used CTMH Avonlea papers, silver sequins, and little bitty sparkles for this page.

For this second page, I dug deep into my stash using some paper and embellishments from way back to my very first days of scrapping.  Everything came from a company called Leaving Prints which isn't in business anymore.  The pictures were taken when we spent a day on the lake back in 2010.

I used a layout guide from a CTMH idea book too.

NYC layouts

In December 2008 I told my niece and four of her friends to NYC for her senior trip.  It was the first time for this group of small town girls in the Big Apple!  In fact, I loved it so much that I've been back three more times since then, and I'm planning another trip there Spring 2017.  The only downside of the trip is that I took over 900 pictures because I wanted to document EVERY single thing we did!  It has taken me 8 years to scrap these pictures, but I am getting closer.  Here are two layouts I did this last week using another older Embellish It kit.  I think it was from April 2014, but I can't remember for sure.

I've been scrapping

but I keep forgetting to post my pictures!  I've made some cards and some layouts from kits in my stash.

These two cards were made from leftovers of my Paper Wishes Personal Shopper kits.  I've been getting these kits for several years now.

This layout is also a Paper Wishes Personal Shopper kit.  The pictures are studio portraits of my kiddos from 2010.  They were so cute and little!