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May 8, 2014

Throwback Thursday: Using Paper Loft paper


A couple years ago, I went to a CK Scrapbook Convention here in Texas.  At the time, I didn't own a lot of quality paper, so I loaded up on some muted, more masculine colors for layouts of my husband and boys from the Paper Loft booth.  Sadly, that paper has been untouched in my stash since that time!

Challenging myself with this Throwback Thursday series, I pulled out all the Paper Loft I owned to do some layouts.  I did not have any embellishments, but I did have some Paper Loft cut-aparts which I used.

For the embellishments, I went to my stash, using navy chipboard Basic Grey letters (from my last Throwback Thursday challenge), buttons and other miscellaneous pieces.

The Paper Loft papers came from these collections:  For the Record, Old Town Tavern, Back Country and Autumn Splendor.  Here is what I came up with!


This is probably the most layered and elaborate of the three layouts I completed.  You can see buttons and twine from my stash, canvas letters from Making Memories, bingo card from Teresa Collins and the chipboard pen from Basic Grey Fact & Fiction


This is my handsome hubby, incognito with his "mountain man" look.  The heart is from Glitz, "love meter" sticker from Crate Paper, navy chipboard letters from Basic Grey, buttons from my stash, and tickets from Making Memories.


I absolutely love my Hub's new boots, and he laughed when I took this photo.  However, with photo editing and these papers, I think the layout is as awesome as the boots!  Here I used some brads from my stash, another Teresa Collins bingo card and the Basic Grey chipboard letters, along with other miscellaneous embellishments from the stash.

No process videos for these layouts this time, but I will be posting a couple videos using a kit that is "New to Me" from The Memory Nest by this weekend! 


May 3, 2014

(Inter) National Scrapbooking Day - Help with Themed Scrapbooks

Welcome to my second post for National Scrapbooking Day!  This time I am sharing one of my videos on YouTube.  This video shows how I chronicled my oldest son's school memories scrapbook -- which is really a binder -- while still having cohesiveness throughout. You will see my chapter pages, and how pages done through the years still fit in within the book.



If you follow me on Instagram, it was there today that I posted a sneak peak photo of the "New to Me" kit that I am using for the month of May from The Memory Nest!  Next week on The Memory Nest blog, Leslie will be posting my three heritage layouts that I completed from the Reflections kit from Lori Whitlock by Echo Park paper.

The Memory Nest is also having a great sale today in honor of National Scrapbooking Day!  Spend your break from scrapping by shopping through all the special deals only today!  





Happy (inter) National Scrapbooking Day!


We scrappers NEED our own holiday, don't we?  Not that we need any excuse to scrap!

Today I will share a couple different things in honor of our holiday:  a video with ideas on how to make your large album projects easily cohesive, a free sketch and a sneak peak at what I'm using for the month of May in the "New to Me" series at The Memory Nest!

First for today, here is a free sketch to get your mojo going:

Please feel free to share this sketch with friends if you'd like!

If you want to get some great bargain shopping in during a scrapping break, be sure to check out the new color kits at The Memory Nest -- and today Leslie has a super sale going on!!


See you again later today when I will post my tutorial video!