Each month my Scrapbook Club gets together to turn in their orders and complete two 12 x 12 layouts. The hostess gets input on one of the pages - she can choose the theme, a color scheme, stamp set or Big Shot item for it.
My hostess for this month, Jettie, had also hosted an in-home private class this past weekend to add to her club orders bumping up her hostess benefits (something I urge my club members to do - you get quite a lot of freebies this way!). She decided she'd like a "family" page. I used the colors from her class 6x6 project to create this page so she could use it in a 2-page spread with the larger page I had given her (shown in yesterday's post here). In addition to the Falling Leaves and Warm Words stamp sets used for the decorative border strips, this page incorporates the All in the Family stamp set. Each club member was able to personalize her own family - I only put my kids on my page along with our two dogs. Somehow Amanda's arm was stamped all wonky and up in the air so I thought, hmmmm - embellishment opportunity (a saying Missy Shipman shared during her session at Convention). I thought the "thankful" leaf looked sort of like a balloon so I stamped it on the end of Amanda's arm.
Here's a close-up of the collaged decorative border piece... I really like making these instead of always reaching for DSP.
And last, here is a close-up of the word "family." Since the chocolate chip letters were sort of lost on the not quite navy background paper, I took my Uniball Signo white gel pen and added some lines to highlight the letters. It really makes it pop!
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The second layout I created for the club this month is an "All About Me" page. If you're like me, there are very few pictures of you with your family because you are always the one behind the camera. Will our children and grandchildren know who we are? Right now at this point in our lives? I thought by doing an "All About Me page" we could share this chapter of our lives with our family - who we are, what we love, etc. I read somewhere that it is a good idea to photograph our every day lives.. the technology that we use, the ordinary details that make us who we are. I need to photograph my beloved laptop, a giant cup of coffee and my stamps - those are the things I love!! The journaling box was created with a piece of whisper white cardstock and the spiral punch and then stamped on with the sentiment from "Things I Love" stamp set with melon mambo ink. The only other color on this layout besides basic black is bermuda bay - I love these colors together!
The daisy embellishment was created with the Big Shot. Check out the corduroy button - I dyed it with melon mambo ink. How cool - now you can have corduroy buttons in a plethora of colors! It is a bit messy, though. And be sure you give them ample time to dry (I pre-dyed mine before the club meeting).
To add some interest to this relatively simple layout, I used background stamps on my melon mambo (En Francais) and bermuda bay (Pretty Posy) mats. The title was stamped using the Taffy Alphabet in bermuda bay ink. I'm hoping the journaling and photographs will help my children know what kind of person I am when they look at this page years from now. Who knows, they may laugh out loud at the outdated technology I'm using today... think back to those huge cell phones 10 years ago and you'll know what I'm talking about!
Thanks for stopping by... I hope you take some time to scrapbook about yourself!!