Crop till I drop

What a great start to the new year! The gals over at ScrapFreak held a month-long challenge called Jump Start Your Scrapping (JSYS). A total of 40 challenges were posted in the forum, and I completed 13!

Now, Aly helped of course, and the big push was yesterday at the Crop for Life at the Main Street Baptist Church. Here are a few of my layouts ... all of them are posted in my gallery at the Freak.


I've been scrapping the old photos that Mom gave me from when I was growing up. To cut down on the decisions (and the number of bags to drag to a crop), I am using papers and die cuts from Sassafras Lass. I bought two packs each of the pink and blue collections at the Scrapbook Superstore in Pigeon Forge. I added some stuff from my stash: brads, flowers, chipboard, ribbon, and - viola! - multiple layouts that go together for my memory book. This one is from January 1977. I matted the Sass letters (snow) on brown paper, then cut the word "fall" out of that same paper with my Sizzix Sidekick (Mac 'n Cheese font). I set snaps down the side of the page with my Cropadile (these are on clearance at Walmart).


I love these photos. Pam and I were a great team -- well, till we hit the teen years. lol. Anyway, I added some Queen & Co photo turns and more flowers, brads and ribbons. My totally awesome camera takes the coolest closeup photos of the little touches, so I'm starting to include those shots when I share. You can see I used some ink around the edges of the journal box and other things on the page.


This page follows a sketch from the freaks but I added a few of my own touches. There is a little card behind the bottom photo that lists all of the kids' names (okay, except that blonde kid, center front. No one knows who he is.) and a journal card in the bottom corner. I *always* journal on my layouts. The embellishments here were die cuts and chipboard that I dressed up. I really like the look of the ribbon between the photos.

There are three more from the crop (plus Aly did one too), so check out the gallery at ScrapFreak to see them. I have another five from last weekend. I'll post those soon. Thanks for looking!