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A Letter From The Editor
By Jami Petersen
Welcome to the March issue, where we’re all about new beginnings. Springtime is a reason for celebration here at Scrapbooking.com.
Everyone loves this season, especially scrapbookers so don’t miss our
Ode to Spring feature. Another important theme this
month is Earth Day, check out all the tributes by clicking here. Our favorite time of year coincides perfectly with our
favorite reason to scrap – Babies. There are plenty of cute layouts to keep you cooing throughout the issue.
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Babies
By Design Team
The technique I used which makes the border of die cuts look so interesting is in the layering. Not only are they overlapping one another, but they are at different heights off the page. I did this by using pop dots on some and mounting others on top of flat brads. The ones on the brads are closer to the page than the ones on pop dots resulting in three heights of layering.
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Best Book Bargains
By Design Team
Feed your need for flowers! Flower Power Papercrafts features a fresh and fabulous collection of over 50 projects inspired by all things floral. A bouquet of unique designs and styles are covered including retro, vintage, romantic, modern, and fantasy-inspired. Use your flower stash to create perfect cards, quick-to-make tags, stunning 3D projects plus the variation ideas include featured techniques such as punches, embossing and rubber-stamping. The projects use colorful embellishments and funky papers, making it easy for you to add that perfect touch.
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Earth Day
By Design Team
My family visited the Guanacaste region of Costa Rica which is known for its ideal surfing conditions. We booked a two-hour lesson with “Kiwi”, a New Zealander with an extraordinarily inspiring teaching style. My husband and daughter were up on the boards in no time, and I stood on the endlessly smooth beach taking nearly 400 photos of the experience. Club Scrap’s “Natural Resources” kit was the perfect backdrop for the photos, and the leaf image in the upper left corner looked just a bit like a trio of surfboards!
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Earth Canvas
By Anna-Karin Evaldsson
I have liked the proverb, ‘We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children,’ ever since I was a child. This canvas was inspired by an earth challenge during Stamptoberfest 2009. To keep with the theme, almost everything on the canvas is recycled and the canvas itself is made from recycled papers. I also used old book pages, cardboard from a box, cork, Punchinella (recycled from sequin making), handmade paper, kitchen foil and some small scrap pieces.
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Baby Boy
By Sarah Webb
This layout was inspired by a sketch at Stuck?! Sketches as a part of a design team assignment. I was requested to create a layout using the sketch in combination with baby or pregnancy pictures. I thought the pictures of our son would be perfect for the layout and that it would be great to capture our son’s jaundice treatments.
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Spring
By Design Team
The minute I saw the green tones in the BasicGrey Origins line, it reminded me of my grandmother’s yard and how I felt when I was there with her. To give this layout a more “urban” look and feel, I wanted to incorporate some re-purposed elements like printed tissue paper from a gift, twine and found metal embellishments I’d had for years. Additionally, sanding and inking elements adds an eclectic and well-worn feel.
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Nine Fold Card
By Michael Strong
This card makes a cute visual joke using my “Just a Little Hello” set of stamps with the tiny hello at the center of a large piece of paper. Decorate the card any way you wish. Enjoy!
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Baby Layout Contest Winner
By Kelly Case
Who would have thought that “talking” to a plastic bear would be so entertaining and/ or amusing? A baby would! My son was trying out the jumperoo for the first time and although he loved the up and down action, he was also very enamored by the toy bear who was jumping along with him. His facial expressions led the baby conversation. I immediately put “his words” to his expressions and came up with this fun layout. In order to creatively journal, I decided to place digital talk bubbles on each photo to tell the story. Seeing life through a child’s eyes is wonderfully simplistic and joyful.
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Birthday Party Invites
By Paris Hilton
Invite your friends to celebrate your birthday with you & send each one of them a personal and unique invite hand made by you!
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Sandpaper Imperfection
By Di Hickman
You can sand pretty much anything including papers, cardstocks, stickers, photo’s and even embellishments! Sanding is a great way to add a distressed look to a page without getting out the messy inks. More than that though, it adds a softer look to a page than inking, making it a great choice for baby, feminine or heritage pages.
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10 Months
By Julie (Jewels) Price
This layout was created after capturing some of my favorite pictures of my daughter this fall. Because I loved her 10 month pictures so much, and I was proud of the photography I captured I wanted to display it in a unique and creative way. Plus, I couldn’t resist scrapping her sweet little face. Stitching was also a new technique I wanted to try. I pulled out my sewing machine and this was only the second layout I had ever stitched on. I now love stitching on layouts and cards!
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Happy Boy
By Connie Mercer
This layout was inspired by those wonderful dimples on the happy face of our youngest grandson. He is teething and loves his fingers in his mouth. It makes me so happy to capture moments like this on film and scrapbook them for all to see. What a cutie he is - the proof is in the pictures!
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Creative Cafe
By Jami Petersen
Jami is organizing her future photo projects in a fun, funky recipe box it's also a great way to show off those latest pictures of the kiddoes! Texture inside and texture outside fat, felt flowers; velvety ribbons, and curly flower petals are just a few of the ingredients for this tasty recipe.
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Tokens of My Confection
By Jami Petersen
Jami creates a whimsical token of her affection for her mother's birthday perfect for holding treats and confections. She textures some paper, paints a ball, and twirls some ribbon to create a fanciful hat. Adding a photo personalizes the creation which is ready to top a cookie tin decorated with ribbons and paints. This gift is sure to put a smile on anyone's face!
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Mt. Angel Tulip Festival
By Nancy Korf
I love spring! One of our annual family traditions is to make a trip to the tulip fields in nearby Mt. Angel. With over sixty acres of tulips and two cute children, I end up with hundreds of pictures of our day. This 2-page layout is photo-dense; almost a dozen photos and very few elements let your pictures take center stage. As a bonus, since many of the photos are standard-sized (4x6), this would be easily replicable as a paper layout.
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Square One - Fictional Families Part I: Meet the Paisleys
By Judi Kauffman
I've always liked vintage scrapbooks that feature cut-outs, drawing, and ephemera. They are so personal, so quirky. Many are honored in museum collections, reflecting and giving visual form to the period in history when the maker lived. Others are cherished by family members, seen only by a few. Still others make their way to yard sales where they are rescued by people like me.
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Adhesives Dept. - Ben & Matt
By Julie Fei-Fan Balzer
One of the things that I love about scrapbooking with kits is not having to think about whether or not things go together. Someone else has done that work for me. I also love creating collage style layouts with lots of bits and pieces. So when I looked at the leftovers from my Studio Calico kit, I knew that with a little imagination something lovely could be created.
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Cardstock Dept. - Expect The Unexpected
By Star Rork
This layout was actually done a couple years ago, but is still one of my very favorite's! We were visiting my mother and we took the time to just enjoy a nature walk. My boy's loved picking the flowers and giving them to me. Since my mother was with me she captured this picture. It was so sweet and I was glad I got to actually be in the picture for once!
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Smile
By Debbie Seyer
Debbie’s gorgeous daughter beams in this easy to make scrapbook page. What a wonderful way to capture this special time in her life.
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Embellishments Dept. - Use Your Stash
By Nicole Petersen
Have you ever ran across an event in your house that was so funny but yet typical at the same time? Grab your camera! Start shooting pictures of the event and record it! That is exactly what happened here in this layout: “My Story.” My daughter was about six at the time, and she lived in a princess room painted like a farm. Our small family of four loves all types of animals. She wanted farm animals as pets, but our neighborhood has restrictions. Therefore, the solution to this dilemma was to add them to her walls.
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Paper Dept. - On The Borderline
By Heather Pittman
I originally created this layout for a challenge that required using the word “fall” in the title. It expresses how I felt towards my daughter within hours after we first met. The photo was taken at the hospital the day after her birth. A technique that I used was cutting the die cut paper to use a decorative border for my patterned paper.
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Stamps Dept. - Mommy Makes Everything OK!
By Amy Kingsford
When making this layout, I was reminded of the first year of my son’s life, and the joy that came from being able to “make everything okay” by simply holding my him just so, or by singing to him, or even just by feeding him. Things were so simple and tender then. Now my son is two and things aren’t so simple and sometimes I miss knowing exactly what to do and how to do it! But…I guess that’s all part of the adventure…and I wouldn’t trade it for the world! My favorite thing about this lo is how I was able to stray from “the pastels” of a baby boy layout and really accentuate the photo and its story, by bringing a little more drama into the layout with some bolder colors and prints.
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