Scrapping Challenges

I've been a scrapping fool and thought I'd share the latest.


I bought a ton of the Crate Paper Orbit line on clearance at ScrapFreak, but once I had it, I wasn't sure what to use it with. Then I got the idea for this layout. This is not the best photo. IRL, the layout is flat and square and has three layers of patterned paper at the bottom (which you can kinda see in the smaller photo). Except for the buttons, clips and bottlecap in the close-up, all of this was from CP. And we miss our Durango! That thing rocked.


I have to say I love the little cluster of stuff I added to this LO. "Use a ticket or receipt" was the suggestion, which I did, but also incorportated two others, "point it out" with an arrow and "use song lyrics" - these are from Amy Grant's Simple Things and read "Feels like I'm a little girl / Best thing in the whole wide world / Is I can see the makings of a memory ... Cause I dream of simple things I can believe in / Like the feeling this day brings". I will say that the drive-in is something we missed terribly while in Virginia. We can't wait for it to open again now that we are back!


This will be the facing page in the album and uses the same papers from Scenic Route's Metropolis collection. This was another sketch and it had flourishes around the main photo. I'm not into the flowery stuff, and can't use rubons to save my life, so I added some brads on one side and a sparkly ribbon cluster on the other. The title letters (sugar) were cut with the Sizzix and "rush" are Lil Davis Designs chipboard that I got at the Scrapbook Superstore in Pigeon Forge. And I'm pretty sure Jamie will love to see that last photo on interwebs lol


I scrapped this page from the description of another layout. It was a sort of recipe, "use shaped paper," "mat your photo," "add two strips of paper," etc. I scraplifted the idea of cutting the snowman out of sandpaper from a fellow scrapfreak. These papers are from a kit I bought years ago, 7 Gypsies. You can see that rubons (the title) are my downfall. I suppose the distressing on the rest of the layout makes the crappy job I did look artistic. The photo is from Aly & my trip to Virginia Beach after Christmas 2008. I was experimenting with my (old) digi camera with angles. I took the shot on my tummy on the sand. The sandman is really less than a foot tall.


This last one is another sketch with papers from Piggy Tales. I found these snapshots when Aly asked to see all the pictures of her as a baby. These three showed such a cute progression, I knew I wanted to scrap them right away, and the brightly colored papers were perfect for these shots. The heart shaped clip was from another kit, and clearly I can't get enough of the flowers lately. The journaling around the photos says "Never has a little boy loved a baby girl as much as you!!"

Thanks for looking!