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A Few Layouts

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I have a few layouts to share today. These were done for various challenges at the two forums I frequent.

First up was one completed during a fun speed scrap on April 27th.

Digikits: Amy’s Design Playground; brown stitches from Amy’s Designs – For the Birds
Wordart: Word Art World – Swap 66
Font: Times New Roman (date)

The next two were done for interNational Scrapbooking Day challenges last weekend. The first one uses a topsy turvy template.

Digikit: Connie Prince – Backyard BBQ Kit and Word Bits
Template: iNSD Topsy Turvy
Font: Pea Rachael

The challenge on this next one was to have white space.

Digikits: Amy’s Designs – Flashback; Amy’s Designs – Beautiful Life; Robyn Gough Designs – Floral Fancy
Wordart: Word Art World – Swap 59
Fonts: Talking to the Moon (date)

Have a fabulous weekend!

Blast Off

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The Bits N Pieces from Amy’s Designs is called Blast Off. Amy previewed it to the CT right at the beginning of April when we had just got back from our trip to Keller for our nephew Cameron’s 4th birthday.

As soon as I saw it, I knew it would be perfect to scrap his party since he had a rocket cake with a blue and yellow decor. Here’s the double page layout. I’ve painted over the faces of the kids I don’t know. I know some parents are particular about their kids being on the internet.

 

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Blast Off
Template: Connie Prince – Scrapbookbytes April 2012 Topsy Turvy (left side)
Font: GrilledCheese BTN (title); Candy Buzz BTN

Journaling on left page reads: In addition to doing all the setup and cleanup, Brandi, the church’s party host, got all the kids together to pose for a group photo with the birthday boy prior to singing “Happy Birthday” and eating cake.”

Journaling on right page on large photo reads: “Party Details: March 31, 2012 at 1 PM The Hills Church of Christ

Next up is an adventure in space.

Evening Elegance

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Today is release day for a fabulous digi-kit from Amy’s Designs. It is called Evening Elegance and it is perfect for portraits or other fancy photos. Amy actually gave it away in 6 pieces in February and March, but if you missed your chance to snap it up for free, don’t despair, you can purchase it on sale this weekend.

I have two layouts to share using this kit. First up is one of my sister-in-law Tami. I have very few photos of her, but I really like this one taken in 2010 at a family reunion. The only thing I don’t like about the photo is the busy background. I felt it was distracting from her pretty face, so I extracted just Tami from the image. However, I didn’t like her without the shape of the photo partly because extracting hair is hard, so I put another copy of the photo behind the extraction and radially blurred it. I need to practice some more so I can just remove the distractions. I used Creative Scrappers Sketch #203 as my starting point.

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Evening Elegance
Sketch: Creative Scrappers Sketch #203
Font: House Sitter’s Club

This second layout is of Jessica. I had bought some cookie dough with a Minnie Mouse design (why that was considered Easter cookie dough is beyond me) and she had fun placing the pre-shaped dough on the cookie sheet and then eating the cookies after baking.

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Evening Elegance
Template: Connie Prince – Backyard BBQ
Font: Simply*Glamorous

Have a fabulous weekend!

Easter Blessings

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Our Easter celebrations this year were pretty neat. Jessica had an egg hunt and picnic at her school the Thursday before Easter. Then she and her Daddy dyed eggs Saturday night. Sunday morning, she checked out her Easter basket before we headed outside for her to hunt for eggs. Last year, it took her a little bit to understand the concept. This year she had no problem and had a blast finding all the eggs and then coming inside to open them all. Afterward, we headed to the late Easter service at our church. Next year, I think we might do the egg hunt after an earlier service since the grass was a little wet from dew at the time we did it. We took a few family photos in the front yard once we got home from church before eating leftovers. That night we had a brisket that I baked most of the afternoon. I used Scott’s Beef Brisket recipe out of one of my Taste of Home cookbooks. I substituted Dr. Pepper for Cola, since that is what I had and it was quite tasty and very tender.

I had hoped to scrap more of the photos from all the above mentioned events before blogging about Easter 2012, but alas I’ve only had time to do one layout and I’m not sure when I’ll get around to the rest, so here it is. Yes, Jessica is wearing the same dress she wore for Easter last year (then it was humongous, now it is a little on the short side). No, James and I did not plan to both wear blue.

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – New Again
Wordart: Memories by Digital Design – New Again
Font: Tropicali Script BTN Bamboo
Scraplift of My 1st Kiss Concert

Have an awesome day!

New Again

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Today is release day for the newest kit by Amy’s Designs. New Again is a soft Easter kit to help you preserve all your wonderful Easter memories.

Memories by Digital Design collaborated with Amy and made some lovely wordart to go with the kit. Both the kit and the wordart are on sale for 50% off this weekend.

I made two facing layouts. They’re from our Easter celebrations last year. I tried to make it look like Jessica was reaching out of the frame to give you an egg. Do you think I succeeded?

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – New Again
Wordart: Memories by Digital Design – New Again
Font: DirtyDarren

Journaling reads: Since the closing on selling our house would be on Tuesday, our Easter celebrations were pretty low-key. We didn’t even make it to church as we still had so much packing left to do to be moved out by the next day. We tried to make it special for Jessica by having a little egg hunt in our backyard. It took her a little bit to understand what she was supposed to do, but once she figured it out, she was off and running to find all the eggs.

Have a blessed Easter weekend!