Yay for the weekend! And yay for the World Cup.. are you a soccer fan?? I sure am! 😉
Anyway, back to scrapbooking.. here’s a lovely new kit that I had fun playing with this week! I love the orange, teal, yellow and gray combination! Here’s the card I made with it.
Enjoy your weekend! I am alone this weekend so I’ll make sure to get my craft on, yay!
Hello and happy Wednesday! This is my favorite day of the working week, because it’s SOSN (Something Old, Something New) – 50% off selected products at The Lilypad. I love it because it’s the best way to grab some gorgeous products I missed when they first came out, and add some new ones too! Here’s what I made with today’s goodies.
Yes, I used a cleaning kit to make a page about a haircut. 😉
This gorgeous kit was from last July’s BYOC and I had not scrapped with it, I was so happy to do it now because it’s gorgeous!
I scrapped this week. Oh yes I scrapped. And I bet you will want to too, once you see the June BYOC at The Lilypad. :))
I really am not much for purple at all, but I’ve fallen in love with this BYOC!
Such a great mix of papers, elements, alphas and templates!
I also made a card for my MIL with the BYOC products by Sahlin Studio.
Next up, I have a page documenting a very special happening.
We have a robin nest on our deck, and we’ve been able to look at the progression. It’s just so sweet! The nest is quite high and we’ve only been able to sneak phone pictures there (sadly out of focus), but it was worth documenting! And this timeline template was just perfect!
OK.. last page now.
Today is Wednesday – the middle of the week, and SOSN (Something Old, Something New) at The Lilypad. Select new and old products are 50% off today only. I picked one that is a classic, but for some reason I had never used it before.
This kit made me go and pull out this photo from three years ago, because it was a perfect match!
I love the pretty grass stamps included in the kit; I used them to create a border for the bottom of my page.
A new month means a new page for the monthly gallery at write.click.scrapbook!
Here’s a closer look at the modeling paste and silver mist.
This past week I blogged a whole series on Anniversaries.
You can check out the posts here:
Day 1: Anniversary layouts
Day 2: Scrapping milestones
Day 3: Anniversary cards
Day 4: Anniversary mini albums
Day 5: Anniversary gifts.
Have a great Sunday!
{this is part of a series I wrote for write.click.scrapbook. You can find the full post here}
Welcome to the last day of this Anniversary Week! Today I am sharing some ideas for anniversary gifts.
Some of these projects don’t require photos, and others do, so you can pick the project based off of what you have available.
Let’s start with a photo-less project. Here is a set of personalized coasters I made. I bought the tiles at Lowe’s and covered them up with different digital papers.
Last year my in-laws’ celebrated their 50th anniversary, so I collected a bunch of photos from their family and friends and made a photo collage. We had it printed and framed for them. They loved it!
Next, I want to share two frames I decorated. These make a great gift too. I got the frame from Michaels and it’s very easy to cover up and embellish.
This other frame was from the dollar store, and I covered it up with paper.
Finally, I wanted to share the wall heart-shaped photo display I put together. I prepared photo and paper squares of ~3 inches side and arranged them in a heart shape. I just love how this looks in our living room!
I hope you enjoyed all the anniversary inspiration this week!
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.
