Old Silver Beach | Scrapaneers March Champions Digital Scissors

Karla Dudley's Good One kit created for Scrapaneers March Champions

Siblings! (Just Jaimee's BYOC kit at The Lilypad)

The Lilypad's BYOC kits are out today! I used Just Jaimee's Siblings BYOC collection for these pages of my kiddos and its FAB!

Created with:

JUST JAIMEE: Siblings papers and elements

My heart belongs to you (Mye De Leon's Butterfly Kisses collection)

Mye De Leon's got such a pretty kit releasing at Snap Click Supply Co. today. I was immediately drawn to the striped ombre paper I used as a background. Isn't it pretty?!

FYI, the Butterfly Kisses Collection is on sale at Snap Click Supply!

On an Adventure

Created using:

Rock On by Mary Mosely

Messy Stitched Rectangles by Katie Pertiet Designs

Summer Words by Katie Pertiet

Loosely Labeled by Katie Pertiet

Well Traveled stamps by Carina Gardner

Bermuda Triangle Collab. by Pixels & Co.

Let Your Words Be Few (Rockport, Massachusetts)

Playing some more!

1. Half Way Cafe (wood paper) by Cosmo Cricket

2. Burlap Essentials by Katie Pertiet Designs

3. Bold Sentiments No. 5 (wordart) by Katie Pertiet Designs

4. Typewriter Alpha Black by Meredith Cardall

5. Made of Awesome (screws) by Gennifer Bursett

6. Simply Adore You (pin) by Gennifer Bursett

Paradise Getaway

Have I ever mentioned how much I love playing in Photoshop?

1. Pink Paislee: Port Beach Papers

2. Gina Miller: Sandy Toes

3. Pixels & Co. collab: Bermuda Triangle

4, Nancie Rowe Janitz: Sunkissed (beach ball)

5. Echo Park: Beach Party (seahorse)

6. Mommyish: Stylin #78 Wood Veneer Style

7. Jennifer Valencia Photography: Photo Flair Color Wheels

Playing in the ocean!

I miss summer!

Materials used:

1. Gina Miller: Sandy Toes

2. Cilenia Curtis: Changes (overlay)

3. Katie Pertiet Designs: Everyday Challenge 72609 (overlay)

4. Jodie Lee: Shabby Antique (overlay)

5. One Little Bird: Going Places (explore, dream, discover)

6. Nancie Rowe Janitz: Playful Bits (sun)

7. Alek Regular font

Whale Watching ... playing in Photoshop

I took about a zillion photos during our whale watching excursion this summer. Since I had a hard time paring things down and cutting out photos, I've got a super busy page to share ...

I love PS and blending and masking photos!

Materials used:

Anita Designs | Seaside Serenity

Carpe the heck out of this diem ... (Just Jaimee's Storyteller 2015 Hunter Collection)

Yup. An actual layout about me. Weird, right?!

I made this page using Just Jaimee's Storyteller 2015 Hunter Collection for a January challenge at The Lilypad for Storyteller subscribers. The challenge was simply to create a layout with a white or gray base paper and that base paper had to take up 80% of the background. That's about it for the challenge. As you've possibly noticed, often I use lots of colors and patterns for my backgrounds so this was a change for me. I've got to say though, it was fun! Just Jaimee's collections with all the paints and other awesomeness made this page come together pretty quicky. :)

I'm going to add ... thanks to my daughter to wandering the beach with me and snapping photos. She and I were both snapping photos like crazy. It was great!

Love. Love. Love.

For some reason I don't get a lot of photos of both of my kids and me. I loved these photos of the kids and me when we were on vacation this summer and of course wanted to scrap it! Love these kids!

Materials used:

Gennifer Bursett: Blueprint No. 9, Simply Adore You kit; Made of Awesome papers (chalkboard paper), Indian Summer (pink flower), Toolbox Mists Vol. 7

Remember - Gloucester, Massachusetts Lighthouse

Hey ... not trying to overwhelm you anyone but I've been playing tonight and I wanted to share. :) I saw a gorgeous page that Jen created for a Pixels & Co. October photography challenge and I just had to play! Here's a a link to Jen's gorgeous page! I used a ton of miscellaneous stuff so I'll include the credits in the comments.

Materials used:

In The Making Add Ons (photography wordart) by Sabrina's Creations

Everyday Life Wire Sentiments (Remember) by Karla Dudley Designs

Time Travel Elements (compass) by Anita Designs

Beat the Heat Papers (white wood paper) by Mye De LeonFit It (metal fasteners) by Bohemian Art

Flea Market Frames by Splendid Fiins

Little Bit Black Alpha by Jennifer Labre

Organic Elements (white paint spatter) by Splendid Fiins

July 2009 Neutrals Paper Pack (wood paper) by Crystal Wilkerson

Family Vacation ... October Template Challenge at Pixels & Co.

Oh my gosh! This page went together so quickly. Samantha Bellarose is giving away this FREEBIE template over at Pixels & Co. for the October template challenge. Seriously ... I made this page in like 45 minutes. LOVE LOVE LOVE it!

Here's a link to the October forum thread. You can read all about the challenge and get a link there to the template!

Materials used (All Pixels & Co.): 

October Template Challenge freebie by Samantha Bellarose at Pixels & Co.

Seaside Serenity by Anita Designs

Anywhere Frames (Explore, Discover, Getaway, Capture) by Karla Dudley Designs

2014 Vacation Wordart by Scotty Girl Design

Pixels & Co. Digi Morph - By the Sea

Have you heard of a digi morph? (Each person sees the person before them's page, takes inspiration from some part of the page and designs their own page. Once they get their page scrapped they send it off to the next person on the list and the morph goes on.) Here's the page I made for the most recent digi morph at Pixels & Co. If you want to see just how a digi morph works, check out the linked forum thread. Look down 

Materials used:

Seaside Sernity by Anita Designs of Pixels & Co.

Treasured Mother-Daughter Moments

I'm sitting here waiting for my hubby to get home from the airport from a business trip so I thought I'd use the time to finish up a page! Productive, right?! It's after midnight so it also means I'm going to be tired in the morning!

Materials used:

Vintage Blendable, Dictionary Blendable, KP Worth Repeating Fall, and Lots of Love (page pebble) by Katie Pertiet

Miss Molly (linen/wood paper, twig, flower & flower scatter) by Gennifer Bursett

La Bella Vie (elements) (Beautiful Life file label) by One Little Bird

Moments of Wonderful Mini Kit (brown paper) by Vinnie Pearce

Love Life - The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

I feel like I haven't scrapped in a while. OK. I'll be honest. I did scrap my Project Life pages this week and I absolutely LOVE that, but last night I was in the mood (and was finally not so tired that I'd go to bed early) to scrap a page for my family album. Ahhh ... I loved it!

NOTE ... My sweet girl finds joy in the littlest things. It’s one of the five hundred million things I love about her.

Materials used:

Clipped Stacks No. 2 frames, Stacked Vintage Frames No. 6, Stamped Years No. 1, My Family Genealogy Records Papers by Katie Pertiet

@ the Office Graph Brushes by Splendid Fiins

Life 365 Word Stickers (Heart Life punch label), Life 365 Punch Labels (heart punch label, Digi Essentials (circle brushes) by Karla Dudley Designs

Spring Sweetness (stitching) by Just Jaimee

Mixed Media 2 Autumnal (grunge overlay) by Nancie Rowe Janitz

Art Play Palette Reflections (paper) by Anna Aspnes

Junk Mail Brushes (text brush), Floral Beauty Brushes (bird brush) by Jodie Lee

Fonts: Stringfellows and Courier

I've just finished my East Coast Vacation Album!

I don't know what happened but somehow I completely forgot to make a book for our family trip this summer! OK, we've been back for less than 3 months but for me this is really late! I've finished my book now and I want to share it with you. 

FYI, once I decide on a style for a vacation album I typically create them pretty quickly. I decided for this book that I wanted a coffee-table style book with clean and simple straight lines. I'm pretty excited about it! You won't find a single shadow or blending in this entire book. That's unusual for me! It's just about the photos and words. 

I used a white background paper with a light grid pattern and I used three fonts throughout. FYI, I used Stringfellows (my new favorite font) for the titles, Minion Pro for the journaling and Homestead for the subtitles. Tonight I'll import my pages into Lightroom, assemble the book in the LR Book Module, upload the project to Blurb and send it off to print! And then, since I'll already have it assembled in the Book Module I'll also make a PDF book as well. I'll share photos of the printed book once I get it back from Blurb!

FYI, the photos might look a little funny in the post. They've got a white background and my blog background is white. For the majority of the pages (except the full photo pages), there's a 1 inch border around the edges.

TFL! 

Barbara

NOTE ... if you want to see this book on my FB Page, here's a link.

Totally Random Comment: "I Still Like You Guys"

... a great totally random and deadpan comment from my son at dinner the other day when we'd just gotten back from vacation  ... "You know, even though we've spent pretty much every minute together this past week, I still like you guys." 

I of course had to get it on a page! LOL!

Materials used:

1. Dandelion Wishes papers & smears by Mye De Leon

2. Blush Flairs by Mye De Leon

3. Remarkable (frames) by Karla Dudley Design

4. My Wonderful Adventure (ric rac & scatter) by Katie Pertiet