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Ann’s Grace

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Today, I’m going tell you about a new kit called Ann’s Grace from Karen Diamond Designs. It has my favorite color as the main color, so it must be awesome. It totally  is. I love the little butterfly. It has 20 papers and 33 elements and it can be used to scrap just about anything.

The majority of the time, Jessica and/or Janette are the subjects of my layouts. This time, I’ve included me. James is pretty good about making sure I’m in a number of pictures too.

Digikits: Karen Diamond Designs – Ann’s Grace
Template: Connie Prince – Bigs & Littles
Wordart: Word Art World – Swap 46
Fonts: Jenna Sue (date)

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein

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!

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!

A Few More Canadian Layouts

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Today I’m sharing two more layouts for my parent’s Canadian Rockies trip. At the rate it is currently going, the album will probably have around 60-80 layouts.

This first one coordinates with the layout I shared last Tuesday.

Digikit: Karen Diamond Designs – Got Luck? and Got Luck? Cardstock
Fonts: Shark Random Funnyness

The second one uses a fun template that I picked up for the Scrapbookbytes March Template Challenge.

Digikit: Connie Prince – Just Imagine
Fonts: Scriptina, Angelina

Have a nice day!

My Girls

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Hello! Today I’m sharing a few layouts with my two favorite scrapbook subjects.

This first layout was done for a speed scrap. A speed scrap (SS) is where you’re given a set of instructions and a time limit (usually 1 or 2 hours). The instructions were provided by Colleen of Mommy Made This.
1. Choose 1 plain paper for the background & 1 photo and a frame it fits inside. Place the photo in the centre of your page.
2. Choose 3 papers (at least 2 patterned) and make rectangles a little larger than your frame and layer them behind the frame. (I used 2 ovals and 1 rectangle.)
3. Cut 5 short thin strips of paper (or alternatively ribbon) and layer then haphazardly behind and at the bottom of the photo frame.
4. Using at least 8 elements and a string/swirl cluster around the photo sides & bottom.
5. Scatter several (at least 4) small buttons on and around the cluster.
6. Place a title in the bottom corner of the page and add any date or journaling you wish.
7. Add any extra touches, upload to the gallery & post in the forum.

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Fresh New Beginning
Fonts: Kids

Then I had to make a coordinating second layout with more of the photos from that particular bath time.

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Fresh New Beginning
Fonts: Kids

And lastly here is a layout of my girls. I had scrapped these two photos in another SS, but I wasn’t happy with the result, so I made a new layout with the same photos.

Digikits: Amy’s Designs – My Girl
Template: Connie Prince – Ready for School
Fonts: FontDinerDotCom Luvable (title), ArtBrush

Have a great day!