LOAD Days 13

LOAD Day 13 - Its Hunting Time.

For this layout I used Shimelle's starting point from last week. Eric still needs to tell me what the journaling should say though!

LOAD Days 11-12 and 16

My layouts for LOAD days 11, 12 and 16 killed the Echo Park - Hello Summer collection that I had been holding onto. There are just a few scraps and a couple of stickers left that I gave to the girls for their stash. I did complete layouts for days 13-15, but wanted to post these 3 together along with a roundup of the other layouts that I completed with this collection.

Day 11 - CW Parker Carousel Museum

Everything on this page is from the collection

Day 12 - Megan's First Pony Ride

For this layout I added an old sheet of PP that I had in my stash for the background and added some mist with October Afternoon Sprinklers

Day 16 - 10 things I love about Lauren

I added some pink and white CS, and misted with October Afternoon Sprinklers and Heidi Swapp Color Shine. Everything else was from the collection!

And here are the previous pages that I made using this collection - from yesterday's post.

LOAD Catch up - Days 7 -10

Ok, I really have been creating a layout each day for LOAD, but I have not been good about posting them to the blog. Here are the days 7-10 layouts.

Day 7 - Great Outdoor Adventures with Jager. 

I pulled out some Simple Stories for this layout. There is a 6x12 on the left with the journaling and additional photos, with the 12x12 on the right focusing on the action shots of Jager jumping into the pond. 

Day 8 - Baby it's cold outside. 

This layout uses PP from an Echo Park winter collection from last year, and a bunch of embellishments from my stash. The flocked snowflake vellum in from Making Memories and I stitched it on.

Day 9 - Hello Summer at Deanna Rose

This layout uses the Echo Park - Hello Summer collection

Day 10 - Feeding the Baby Goats

This is a companion page to Hello Summer at Deanna Rose and also uses the Hello Summer collection. I added some doilies from my stash as well as the Studio Calico wood veneer cameras.

Lovely Sira - LOAD Day 6

I am trying to use up some of my older collections during this LOAD, so for this photo I pulled out the October Afternoon - Sidewalks collection. This layout killed that collection with some scraps going into my scrap bin and the leftover stickers going into the girls stash. 

I completed 10 pages using this collection, mostly adding kraft CS. Here are the other layouts that I completed using this collection:

My Forever Friend

Bubble Fun

Missing Emily

Bowling Fun

Spring

Play

Playtime with Papa

Sweet Hugs from Grandma

Piano Play

Forever - LOAD Day 5

I am thrilled with how this layout turned out! The photos were taken on our 10 year anniversary, and it took me forever to find the right PP to use. I dug through my stash pulling out anything that had the red or the blue that I was looking for. This star PP had both colors in it, but it was not my favorite, so I decided to use it as a border to tie in the colors. There is journaling hidden behind the photos, which can be accessed by pulling on the silver heart (PTI die). 

I love the title, and it makes me smile every time I look at it. Of course there is a story behind it which I included in the journaling. When the minister asked my father "Who gives this woman to this man..." my father replied that he was not giving me away, but loaning me out with a 20 year renewable lease". Now, I think that he just said this at the rehearsal, but he claims it was at the ceremony itself. Either way it was said, and remains a joke in our family, and explains the title. Forever, or at least the next 10 years.

Cousins - LOAD Day 4

I was getting ready to put away all of the leftovers from my January Studio Calico kit when I decided to try to get one more layout out of it. The photos that I wanted to scrap had this strong pink in them, and there was the same pink on one of the branding strips. I started with a sketch from Shimelle and the remnants from the kit. The dot PP did not have the right colors in it though, so I used some SU ink and heart stamp, and a small dot stamp from an Ali Edwards stamp set to add the bright pink to the PP. I added some pink doily washi tape from my stash to bring in more of the pink, and the glittery letters, but everything else is from the kit!

One of a Kind Dad - LOAD Day 3

I decided to use an older collection instead of my Studio Calico kit for a while. I still had quite a bit of the My Minds Eye - Sweetest Thing collection pack left over. The colors matched the family photo perfectly, but the layout was about a surprise party thrown for my Dad. SO I added more of the black and grey pieces of the collection to add a little more masculine.. even while using my favorite pinks and yellows!

Chalk Art - LOAD Day 2

I really liked the black and white circles PP from the January Studio Calico kit, but I really struggled with how to use it. I was looking through my photos and decided to use these of the girls drawing on our driveway with chalk.  I dug out my neglected SU chalk and colored in some of the circles with chalks that matched the embellishments.

Of course after I uploaded the photos I noticed that I wrote "Spring" in the journaling, and the photos were taken in September. oops! I have not figured out how to correct it yet.

 

Swim Lessons

I am really enjoying working with the Studio Calico kits, but I think that I am ready to go back to my stash as well. Maybe when I am done with this kit I will spend most of LOAD (started 2/1.. but I did not have these layouts posted yet!) working out of my stash instead of relying on a kit. Most of the little embellishments are from previous SC kits

An aerial view of home

Another new favorite layout! I have been really pleased with my scrapbooking lately. I took this photo from the air while on a plane ride with my Brother-in-law who has his pilots license. I added pieces cut from a Hambly transparency that I had been hoarding. I actually layered a strip of it over the Thickers that came in the kit to add some color to them! The stars were colored with SU ink, and I stamped the number line from this month's kit under the patterned vellum. The green alphas, camera sticker and the orange bow paperclip are from a previous SC kit.

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Homemade Applesauce

A double post tonight and my first LOAD213 layout! I was not able to follow the prompt to create a layout without words, but I am really happy with what I did create! I loved the background PP as soon as I opened up my kit, and it is perfect for this layout. I stamped the arrows using red ink (SU) on the chipboard thickers and they kinda look like hearts! The heart badge is from a previous kit, as well as some of the enamel dots. I am thinking that I should have matted the photos with a thin mat, maybe in the blue color... oh well!

Meeting Neila

This is the first layout that I made with the January Studio Calico Kit. I think that the balance is off and the white space should be on the top. The "Sister Aunt Daughter" stamps are from a PTI set, and I also used the arrow stamp from this month's kit as well. All of the items (other than the PTI stamp) used on this page that were not from this month's kit was from a previous Studio Calico kit!

Santa

The last layout from my December Studio Calico kit! This one is pretty simple. I added the red SU glitter paper, the sequins from my stash, and the "Santa Claus is on his way" is cut from a piece of PP from my stash (Recollections)

Silly Papa

This is one of my most favorite layouts that I have completed in a very long time! I just could not stop looking at it! Of course that is mostly due to the photo's of my girls with my Dad, but I love it all! Everything is from the kit except for the bakers twine, October Afternoon Sprinklers and the Studio Calico wood veneer. 

Other than the pics, I love the embellishment cluster on the top left corner. I adhered the top of the PP banners down flat, and then added a SU Dimensional under the bottom to give it some dimension. After I stapled on the arrow I decided to add the wood veneer and tucked it under the arrow. I love how it turned out!

Love Life Everyday

Another December Studio Calico page done and I only have 2 more to post! I used almost all of the PP this month (no full sheets left!) and a bunch of the embellishments as well! I still need to look up the date for this photo, but it was sometime in 2004!

Saying Goodbye

For this layout of the girls saying goodbye to Neila I combined pieces from the Sock Hop and the 34th Street Studio Calico kits, as well as added some items from my stash. The background paper, flower die cuts and the October Afternoon Mini Market alphas are from the Sock Hop kit. The brads, backside of a branding strip, pink harlequin paper (from a pocket) and the orange woodgrain tab are from the 34th street kit. The doily, flair, bakers twine and the American Crafts letter stickers are from my stash. 

Liberty Memorial

This is the first layout that I completed using the 34th Street kit from Studio Calico. I am really pleased with how this one turned out. There will be a 6x12 divided page protector opposite this with a couple more pictures, but I still need to add some embellishments to it. The only things that I added to the kit were the Studio Calico Wood Veneer Stars (love them!!), the tags and the washi tape. The journaling is hidden in a pocket made out of one of the cello bags that the kit embellishments are shipped in. 

November Studio Calico Layouts

Here are the rest of the layouts that I completed using my November Studio Calico kit. I still had quite a bit of the kit left, but used up all of my favorites and decided just to add the rest to my stash so that I could get to work on the December kit! It is funny that I scrapped 2 very similar pictures with this kit, though what is even funnier is that I scrapped another one last month! The photos were taken months apart and the journaling tells different stories, but I really like both pages! Luckily they will be spread apart in the albums since while I do not scrap chronologically, I do put them in the albums chronologically!

Happy Birthday

I LOVE how this layout turned out! The stripe is my favorite PP in this months kit. Overall this kit fits in my style of scrapbooking much better than the previous months. The banner was hand cut, and I also used the American Crafts date stamp to finish off the page. As usual, I am not the best at journaling.. but it is a birthday page from my Niece's birthday so not much really needs to be said!

Family

This is my first layout completed using my November Studio Calico Kit, Sock Hop. This time I got an add-on as well (Poodle Skirt). The alpha stickers were from my stash, I love the ones in the kit, but they did not fit with the colors on this layout. The yellow and white chevron piece is the result of my attempt at letterpress. I inked one one side of an embossing folder with ink before running my CS through. I love how it turned out!