The lovely new releases at The Lilypad this week prompted me to finally get this picture from last year scrapped! 🙂
I’m very happy to be nearing the week’s end.. this will be my last Saturday in class for the next three months and it feels good! 🙂
{this is part of a series I wrote for write.click.scrapbook. You can find the full post here}
Welcome to Day 3 of this Anniversary Week! Today I will be sharing some inspiration for anniversary cards.
I find it especially meaningful to give a homemade card to celebrate the sweet milestone of an anniversary.
Some of the tips I shared on Day 1 still apply to cards. In particular, focusing on the numbers is always a nice way to build a card.
Here’s an example from me for our 6th anniversary.
For my in-laws’ 50th, I made a card that featured gold – the color of the 50th anniversary.
Finally, this is the card I made this year for my husband.
Come back tomorrow for some mini album inspiration!
{this is part of a series I wrote for write.click.scrapbook. You can find the full post here}
Hello! Our theme for the week is Anniversaries. I figured this would be a fitting theme for this week, given that write.click.scrapbook’s 5th anniversary is coming up, and it happens to be my wedding anniversary as well. 🙂
Throughout the week we’ll be talking about documenting anniversaries and relationships, how to scrap milestones, anniversary cards, mini albums, and ideas for anniversary gifts.
Here are a few tips for your anniversary pages: focus on the photograph, feature the numbers, and tell a story.
This tip is simple enough: just let the photo speak. Here is my Second Anniversary page.
And here is our Third Anniversary.
I also love to feature the anniversary number on my pages.
Can you spot the number 5 on my Fifth Anniversary page?
The numbers on my Sixth Anniversary page aren’t as subtle. 🙂
Another tip is to add some journaling about your couple, or about what you did on your anniversary. For my Fourth Anniversary page, I wrote a couple sentences to document how we celebrated it.
All these tips work not just for anniversary pages, but also to document relationships in a broader sense.
As you may have noted, all my anniversary pages feature photographs of my husband and me. But I don’t think I am the only one with a husband who hates being in photos.. am I? So I wanted to share a few tips on how to get those photos taken.
I hope you enjoyed these tips and the inspiration! Tomorrow we will be talking about how to scrap milestones!
I love the new collection by Digital Design Essentials! And it’s such a steal at $5.99!
The theme is babies, but it’s such a versatile collection! I used it for two cards.
These are very simple one layer cards, printed on matte photo paper.
Here’s a closer look at each card.
Enabler alert:
The Silhouette Cameo bundle (typically $269) is on sale for only $195 on Amazon right now.
Here’s just a small sampling of what you can do with it. 🙂
 
 
Eeeek. It’s May. And National Scrapbooking day is tomorrow!! Do you have crafty plans? I have school meetings in the morning, but after that I plan to get crafty. Yay!
In the meantime, here’s a couple of pages from me. The first is for the write.click.scrapbook May gallery. The theme was “everyday”.
It was my first page with the oh-so-trendy pie chart, and I like how it turned out.
Next up, I had fun with creashens’ new kit! Oh, that pink+yellow combo has me smitten!
Happy NSD! Make sure to stop by at The Lilypad for all the fun games, and to kiss a certain frog… 😉
I’m late in posting this, but Sahlin Studio and Britt-ish Designs’ latest installment of the Project Mouse series is so much fun!
Perfect for cruises, sea/lake, and so much more! I made two hybrid cards with it.
Here they are one by one.
I was inspired to make a round card and used my newly acquired Big Shot to cut the circle.
I hope you had a great weekend! Alas, I have not had any crafty time this weekend.. too much work/study to do. Next weekend is National Scrapbooking Day so I am really hoping to get some scrapbooking time.. but it’s not looking good! Do you have plans for NSD?
OK.. Easter is tomorrow, but I just have to share this adorable new kit by Jenn Barrette (20% off today) and the card I made with it!
These colors are just so pretty, and they look so vibrant when printed out on matte paper! I made a trifold card.
I am thrilled that it’s Friday! After a crazy weather swing from the 80s to the 30s, we are back in the 50s and I am enjoying it. I have lots of pages to share today! (Ok.. just 3 but it’s more than I usually have ;))
First off, I played with some of the new releases at The Lilypad (20% off all weekend long), and let me tell you.. I really had fun! Here’s what I used:
The first page is somewhat Easter themed – we made these cookies a few weeks back, but they are bunny shaped. 🙂
The second page I made with this kit describes the crazy weather we’ve had this week.
Switching gears, I also made a page with the new lovely kit by creashens. I love all the watercolor touches in this kit, and the colors are so pretty!
It’s Easter Weekend so make sure to stop by tomorrow for a pretty Easter card I made!
Today is the last day to take advantage of the early bird sale on Digital Design Essentials’ new collection!
All this for $5.99? Yes please!!
I am crushing on kelly green lately, and I sure got my fix here! 🙂 And of course, you never go wrong with hot pink. 😉
Hybrid Tip!
I picked up a tip on instagram and I feel it will be a game changer for my Project Life. I tend to rarely include hybrid cards in my album because I don’t want to bother filling up a full 11×8.5 sheet of paper to print out.. So using a 6×4 sheet of paper is the perfect solution! Granted, it’s more expensive per journaling card than the larger paper, but totally worth it for me if it gets me to print more!
What brand of photo paper do I use? I go with Canon – I find it has excellent value. I use glossy 4×6 for photos, and matte 8.5×11 for hybrid projects. And now I will also use the matte 6×4 for Project Life cards.