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A Few Layouts

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On Monday, I posted a layout of Jessica looking up in the sky at a motorized paraglider. I mentioned that I hoped to do another coordinating layout with the rest of the pictures from that trip to the playground. Well, here is that layout.

Journaling reads: Jessica and our neighbor’s grandson Braydon enjoy playing together. The playground’s always more fun with playmates.

Playground Layout

Digikits Used: Connie Prince – Backyard BBQ, Chugga Choo Choo, Just Imagine, Strawberry Lemonade Freebies, Whale of a Good Time, Zoom Zoom Zoom
Fonts Used: Weathered SF

This next layout is for my parent’s Canadian Rockies trip album. I wanted to share it, because I’ve always felt it weird to do a scrapbook page with no pictures. Well, this page has no pictures and I don’t think it’s weird. Due to the fog, my Dad didn’t take any pictures, but I wanted to include the skyride tickets and some journaling so they wouldn’t forget they did try to see skyline views of Vancouver.

Top journaling spot reads: We saw a mountain lumberjack show in the outdoor amphitheater. It featured log rolling, a 60-foot tree climb, two-man peg and raker saws, axe throwing, and an exciting springboard chop.

Lower journaling spot reads: Fog covered the view during the skyride and it was like being in a cloud at the top. It was rather disappointing to miss seeing the Vancouver skyline and Pacific Ocean from such a vantage point.

Do you like my arrows? I made those elements myself using paper from the kit and punches in my software. I especially like the circles I punched out of the arrows to allow the map to peak through.

Grouse Mountain Layout

Digikits Used: Connie Prince – Just Imagine
Fonts Used: ArtBrush

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Look! Up in the sky.

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I apologize that I haven’t blogged much lately. I entered a digital scrapbooking contest and that is keeping me a little busy. Hopefully, I can share my round two entry with you Wednesday. (My round one layout is going to be a Christmas present for someone who may or may not read my blog, so I’m going to wait to share it.) In the meantime, here is another layout I recently finished.

It was a challenge to complete. I followed this month’s Bytes-to-Go challenge at Scrapbookbytes.com. My order was 3 photos, 5 papers, one of which will be embossed (can be used more than once), 3-5 stars, 10 or more flowers, 3 different ribbons/string, 1 frame, 2 different paint splats, glitter or scatters, a large title, stitching, and 2 word strips. The most challenging part for me was to use 10 or more flowers.

I also used Sketchabilities Sketch #54. It inspired me to do the Bytes-to-Go challenge since I felt that it would best allow me to use all those embellishments.

Sketchabilities Sketch 54

Journaling reads: Our after-dinner trip to the neighborhood playground ended with a sighting of a motorized paraglider. We heard it first and then Jessica pointed it out. She enjoyed watching it go up and down above the preserve. August 26, 2011

Look! Up in the Sky.

Digikits Used: Connie Prince – Backyard BBQ, Chugga Choo Choo, Just Imagine, Strawberry Lemonade Freebies, Whale of a Good Time, Zoom Zoom Zoom
Fonts Used: Weathered SF

I hope to do a coordinating second layout to scrap the photos from the rest of the trip to the playground.

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Jessica’s First Day of School

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Yesterday was Jessica’s first day of school. I was excited for her and scared at the same time. She hates the church nursery at SHPC and is not the biggest fan of Mommy leaving and even sometimes not the biggest fan of Daddy leaving in the morning to go to work. But apparently, I didn’t need to be worried.

I, of course, want to scrapbook this momentous event. I really liked this sketch from Sassy Lil’ Sketches and thought it would work really well with the best picture I was able to get of Jessica on her first day of school. You might notice she’s pointing at the Elmo on her shirt. That was the only way I could get her to look at me, by asking what was on her shirt.

Sassy Lil' Sketches 8/22/11

Journaling reads: This year, Jessica started attending the Mother’s Day Out Program at Abiding Love Lutheran Church on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 AM to 1 PM. Her teachers, Ms. Karen and Ms. Lacy, said her first day went great. She only cried for about 5 minutes after Daddy dropped her off. Another little girl came up and gave her a hug and said it was okay. After that, she enjoyed playing with the other kids in her class.

First Day of School Layout

Digikits Used: Connie Prince – Ready for School
Fonts Used: Pirates Writers

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Fun at Loco-Motion

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Sunday afternoon after stamping with Lori, I met James and Jessica at Loco-Motion, a bounce house place that has been having deals at a lot of different deal sites recently. I decided the pictures I took would work for a challenge I’ve been wanting to participate in, the August Scrapheap Challenge #1 at Scrapbookbytes.com. The challenge is to use 3 frames, 4 pictures, a tag (at least 1), the color yellow and 2 papers (one plain and one striped).

Loco-Motion Layout 1

I ended up doing two coordinating layouts since I had way more than 4 pictures I wanted to scrap.

Loco-Motion Layout 2

Digikits Used:
Circle of Life Scraps – Enchanted Studio Scraps – All Seasons Summer (blue tag)
Summer Driggs – Flip-flopsicles (beach ball, sunglasses, striped paper)
The Scrapping Sisters – March of the Animals (stitching, red paper)
B2N2 Scraps – March of the Animals (red string)
Connie Prince – Whale of a Good Time (white ricrac), Chugga Choo Choo (alpha)
Serif – Indie Chic (black frame)
The Scrappy Kat – March of the Animals (red frame)
Fonts Used: Pea Little-Ducky

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A Few Layouts

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I’ve been steadily working on the scrapbook album that I am putting together for my parent’s trip to the Canadian Rockies. My goal is to be finished by Jessica’s birthday, which is 2 months from tomorrow, when my parents will next be in town. That way they can proof the album before I order the bound album. So far, I’ve put in 14.25 hours. I think I’m at least a third of the way done.

Here is what I intend to be the cover page (not necessarily the outside of the album). I used a screen shot of a Google map. I had seen a similar idea somewhere and thought it was really neat. The layout was scraplifted from here.

Canadian Rockies Cover Layout

Digikits Used: Connie Prince – Just Imagine
Fonts Used: my font isn’t funky enough

This next page will follow the layout in this blog post. Journaling reads: The largest North American ground squirrel, the Hoary Marmot is a 17 to 22 pound grizzled ball of fur that sleeps 7-8 months of the year. Not shy, we were able to observe one near the tree line.

View from the Top 2 Layout

Digikits Used: Connie Prince – Just Imagine
Fonts Used: Catherine’s College Days

These next three layouts are from our recent Dzubinski family trip. They wrap up the portion of the trip spent on a boat in the lake (see the first three here). So I put 2.5-3 hours of family fun into 6 layouts. Do you think that is reasonable?

Journaling reads: James was the only one of the Moores who choose to take a ride. Being pregnant, the tube was not a wise idea for Jennifer and she had no interest in the jet ski. Jessica wasn’t interested in riding the jet ski with her Daddy and it wasn’t forced.

Lake LBJ 4

First section of journaling reads: “Neither Papa or Nanny tried out the tube, but they did get behind the wheel of the jet ski and zoomed around the lake.” Second section of journaling reads: “After Sarah took a turn on the jet ski, she asked Cameron if he wanted to come join her.  He wasn’t liking that idea at all so she asked Trevor.  He nodded immediately and “jumped” right on.  He liked holding the steering panel and really enjoyed his ride. The rental time was nearly up, and Cameron still hadn’t taken a ride.  We knew that once he got on it, he would love it so Sarah sat him in front of Brian with a little resistance.  We’re so glad we “made” him get on because he had a blast.” If you read my sister’s blog, you might recognize the journaling, because it is almost verbatim from her blog. I just changed it up so it would not be pronoun specific. I’m making the layouts so that if I print these pages out for everyone, it is not family specific.

Lake LBJ 5

Lake LBJ 6

Digikits Used: Connie Prince – Whale of a Good Time
Fonts Used: my font isn’t funky enough

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