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u {heart} legos – scrapbook layout

09 Feb 2011 5 Comments

by dlwidder in Scrapbook Layouts Tags: 12×12, birthday, buttons, child, Fancy Pants, kraft, layout, multi-photo, paint, primary colors, scrapbook, scrapbooking, single page, son, splatters, Webster’s Pages

The journaling reads, “7th B-day party at Tumbletown. You were so excited to finally get the Indiana Jones Lego set you’d been asking for.”

Materials:

American Crafts white and yellow cardstock
Fancy Pants Kraft Kuts
Pebbles Inc. yellow scrapbook paint
Bo Bunny buttons
Webster’s Pages floral bouquet
Heidi Swapp heart shaped clear extras
Jenni Bowlin mini chalkboard alphas

adhesives:

helmar 450 quick dry
Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro

Based on a sketch provided by Sketchy Thursdays for this week’s challenge combined with a color challenge on The Studio Challenges. TFL!

Your Perspective

29 Jan 2011 1 Comment

by dlwidder in Scrapbook Layouts Tags: 12×12, chipboard, echo park, embellishments, hand sewn, handmade flower, layout, masking, Maya Road, pink paislee, ribbon, scrapbook, scrapbooking, shimmer mist, single photo, stitching, Tattered Angels

(I wanna see things from) Your Perspective

For this layout, I used Maya Road chipboard butterflies as a mask, Tattered Angels shimmer mists, Echo Park Be Mine papers, Pink Paislee Parisian Anthology tickets and trim, Cosmo Cricket alphas, Around the Block alphas, Memory Boutique ribbon, EK Success Fastenator staples, DMC embroidery floss, regular office staples and a binder clip.

I combined 3 challenges for this one layout. Inspiration from Nerdy *Victorious* Scrapbookers, sketch from Paper Secrets and Scrap Whispers requires the use of office supplies somewhere on the layout.

If you’d like to play along w/any of these challenges, here are the links:

Nerdy Victorious Scrapbookers

Paper Secrets

Scrap Whispers

TFL!

Super man?

26 Jan 2011 2 Comments

by dlwidder in Scrapbook Layouts Tags: 12×12, brother, butterflies, children, fussy cutting, growing up, journaling, kids, layout, lo, Maya Road, misting, multi-photo, ribbon, scrapbook, scrapbooking, shimmer, sister, sparklers, Tattered Angels, trim, Webster’s Pages

Inspired by the song Superman (it’s not easy) by Five for Fighting.

This one is for Alex’s album, but has one of the same photos as “Fall Attitude” in Madison’s album.

The morning started w/me trying to get Alex to change his shirt before school, but he really wanted to wear this shirt. It was Madison’s first day of Kindergarten at the “big kid” school and she was soooo excited…until we got there. Then she was just terrified. I had Alex, Madison, Matthew and Christian who was just 2 months old with me and I was trying to figure out how to escort her in w/all of them when Alex asked me if he could please take her. I was so relieved! He was our hero that day. Later I was thinking how appropriate that shirt was after all. 🙂

That same day, he had show and tell at school and he took his stuffed animal (Yoshi) to school, so I got a couple of pics of him at the bus stop.

This layout is for a challenge at Back Porch Memories to use a song title. The song Superman (it’s not easy) by Five for Fighting immediately came to mind not just because of his shirt, but also because the lyrics say “it’s not easy to be me” and that he’s only a man, etc. Alex is a fantastic older brother so it’s easy to forget that he’s only 9 and still vulnerable himself. It’s also based on a sketch provided by sketchabilities for a challenge on Sketches in Thyme.

I used Webster’s Page Wonderfall on this lo, along with some of their trim and sparklers. Prima pearls, Tattered Angels Shimmer mist, Maya Road chipboard butterfly.

To check out the sketch or to enter the challenge, CLICK HERE.

Enjoy the Little Things

17 Jan 2011 Comments Off on Enjoy the Little Things

by dlwidder in Scrapbook Layouts Tags: 12×12, diecuts, layout, MME, multi-photo, My Mind’s Eye, scrapbook, scrapbooking, stamping, Stamps

This is a lo I made using MME’s ‘lil robots paper pack. It was for a sketch challenge on Back Porch Memories’ Forum.

In case anyone is wondering, so far my blog is being flooded w/lo’s of Alex because I’d already made scrapbooks for Madison, Matthew and Taten for Christmas and just decided to add this section on my blog recently. 🙂 One of these days, I’ll go back and take pics of their pages and post them. Until then, you’ll just have to put up with me finishing Alex’s album. 😉