"Char"

Here is the first scrapbook page I ever put together, created approximately 19/12/2010.

After spending a long long time deliberating on how to actually go about making a scrapbook page, I sat down one evening and this all just kind of fell onto the page. As you can probably tell! I thought it was great at the time, but now I just itch to completely rearrange and fix it. But I won't! *eye twitch eye twitch*

However I did go back and add some of Char's childhood letters to mummy (and one of my school lunchbox letters to Char) into the wee envelopes...

"It's An US Thing"

Typical. I showed this to Char and the first thing she said was "It's ANUS thing???" Go me for spacing my words too closely and not even noticing that 'AN US' is basically 'ANUS' with a gap!!! And typical that it's the first thing Char notices :P Since taking this photo I've since added a couple of apostrophes so that it reads "It's An 'Us' Thing" but it still clearly looks like anus. Ah well, it fits with our sense of humour. If I were to really change anything, it would be to center the title. Now that really bugs me

"LOVE"

I had this in my head for a few weeks and when I finally got around to putting it together, I was pretty happy with how it turned out. I absolutely love this photo and really like the simplicity of the layout. The red of the cardstock is actually deeper than how it photographed and the photo not so pink (or is it just our monitor??).

Materials: AC Cardstock, Kaisercraft script printed paper, Prima flowers, Fancy Pants 'Roadshow' rub ons.

"Bree"

I absolutely adore these photos and when I found these papers I knew they'd be perfect to go with the shots. I bought an extra sheet so as to cut out the dragonflies, but that's where the inspiration dried up. Each time I sat down to try and put it all together, I was stumped. I was trying to shove far too many dragonflies onto the page and it was cluttered, messy, and not at all as I invisioned it to be.

It was Jarrod who came to my aid, but clearing everything off the page, and placing just a few dragonflies at opposing corners as he had noticed something I'd missed entirely - the dragonflies were flying in formation at the corners, and thus the extras I cut should follow suite. Awesome. So I guess I can say this page was a collaboration between Jarrod and myself. (I'll turn him into a scrapbooker yet...)

I do wish I'd tried harder with the handwriting though!

Kaisercraft paper & dragonflies. Rosies Studio chipboard embellishment. Basic Grey chipboard alpha.

"Big Blue Park"

This was my second attempt at this layout, was turned out marginally better than the first. I wanted it to be as playful, fun and sporadic as the day itself had been on our outing to what we call the 'Big Blue Park'.

"Big Blue Park" created 11.04.11
Bazzill cardstock. Bo Bunny 'lazy daisy' rub-ons & journalling pad. Cosmo Cricket ready-set-chip alpha in 'red line'.
I created this layout twice. The first time, I used only random cut strips of paper and a black marker pen. I hated it (admittidly, I did quite literally throw 90% of it down and glue it where it landed.)

"Indie: Worth the Weight"

Once again I spent many days staring at the various papers, embellishments and photos, trying to decide which pic to use and how it would all go together. One afternoon when Indie was having a nap, I looked at it again without the late-night haze before my eyes and it all just clicked. Have plans to make a series in this colour-scheme from the Indie baby bump shoot. One day...

I do wish I'd used the close up shot we had of Indie's birthweight in place of his first-born photo, as it would have fit better with the title (which I only thought of after putting the rest of the LO together). Hindsight eh?!

Materials used: AC Cardstock, Kaisercraft paper, Fancy Pants 'Happy Together' rub ons, Prima flowers