My First Haircut

First of all I haven't been on in ages and I probably won't for a while again. Sorry
Here is a layout I have been working on for a long time. Printed the photos in July ; chose my layout colors in November and finally Finished it in February  and love it so I am sharing it with everyone!
The shade of blue that perfectly matched my photos was from two different companies and the color just happened to be identical! What luck!
The wavy blue lines are old Creative Memories zip strips. If you still have some dig them out and use them up! Doesn't it look wonderful!

No stickers were used! The arrow and scissors were from cricut cartridges! Since I wanted to use 6 photos I decided not to use patter papper since it would be too busy. The red is from Creative Memories Enchanted Palette. It is embossed. Look closely and you can see the dots.

croptober fest 2012

So it took me a while to post these... for croptober fest this year we did one card and one border. These were the samples I came up with for this year. I think I did too many last year and people where overwhelmed.

Start to finish layout (school zone)

first I chose my photos

then I chose my color pattern. I also decided to make a card

I start playing around with my pages to see what I come up with

I have never done a scrapbook page with banners so I want to give it a try

I am a color person so even though I decided to use color photos a 100% black and white page was too pain.

 Creative Memories sells paper ribbon ( the one I used in this layout is sticky so no need to find something to glue it down) I cut up paper frames because that is something I don't always use so I am trying to find a way to use my scraps. So if you have tons of scraps lying around try doing a banner!

Still needed a little more color... so I dug out my scraps and found a scrap that was torn and I decided to add it to my page

added the green ribbon.... just needed the last little bit of color

so I tried to add color to the second page to tie it to my first page

 but it was too much

this is what I came up with

Be You Be Happy

Hopefully it won't be another month before I post again. I have been busy; my little boy just started Pre K and he keeps me busy. The job gets in the way of my scrapbooking time too... Ah well. I have lots of stuff coming in preparation for croptober fest I just need a little motivation and a lot of time. Here is another layout for you.

jumping playground

I haven't posted in a month and a half... yikes. I have been busy busy busy. I am back now though! Lots of fun stuff coming. First of all here is a new layout. Mostly it is two pattern papers (the blue and red) and two colors. I basically ripped paper and put it down.It was nice to rip paper; not as easy as it looks though to make a pattern but I liked it. What do you think?

cards

So Cute

I don't normally use photos bigger than 4 x 6 due to the cost. I can buy a 4 x 6 for as low as 13 cents if I print a lot or as much as 28 cents if I do instant prints. Gets expensive since I just LOVE SCRAPBOOKING! Still 28 cents is not a bad price. Going up a size though; its expensive. One 5 x7 is around $1.50 and an 8 x 10 is about $2.50. That is too much of a price difference for my taste and until I get a nice printer at home I am happy with cheap 4 x 6 photos. Every once in a while though you just have to use something a little bigger. I LOVE this layout.