I promise this is mostly a craft blog and not a blog on my car adventures. It's just that so much has happened these past few weeks (old car died, got new car, got engaged...yeah, still have to blog about that last one!) plus, this week I have a gig 2.5 hours away to play Bach's St. Matthew Passion, in addition to my normal teaching job, so crafting has, unfortunately, had to be put on hold. I did, however, finally manage to scrap another 12 x 12 layout page yesterday for my Lisa & Bryce album, which, for my first album, is really coming along quite nicely - in other words, I am in love with this album and the lovely papers from My Mind's Eye's Lost & Found Two 'Sunshine' collection. Hmmm...these might even make lovely wedding colors?? Not sure about that yet, but I am sure that I love the color scheme of this scrapbook album.
As I said in my last scrapbooking post, I am very new to this. This is only my third 12 x 12 layout ever. I've made two mini-albums for friends' babies, but that's it. Scrapbooking is so relaxing (if you can keep the kitties off of your table and supplies) and the photos really do look so much cuter when surrounded by pretty papers and coordinating embellishments.
For this layout, I used a 12 x 12 sheet of paper from the Lost and Found Two Sunshine collection as the background. I then used a variety of papers from the 6 x 6 in. paper pad (from the same collection) to create a patchwork pattern to lay on top of the background paper. I selected two pictures of Bryce hugging my kitties (the big grey tabby is Samson, the tiny calico is Dalilah) and also one of the two of us that my mother-in-law-to-be turned black and white (I think using Instagram - oh, how I need an iPhone!) I cut away the background from the two kitty photos so the colors were better matched to the papers. I added two tickets from Tim Holtz collection (Love and Play) and, finally, added a few matching My Mind's Eye brads to give it a bit of a special touch. I completely love how this layout turned out, don't you?
Check out this article that I wrote on scrapbooking:
Scrapbooking: A Fun Way to Preserve Memories and Photos
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