If I'm not scrapbooking I'm thinking about scrapbooking!
We enjoy driving out to Sweet Berry Farms in Marble Falls to wander through the piles of pumpkins, wonder at the sea of sunflowers, and visit with the gang of goats. But the best part of our day is savoring their homemade pumpkin ice cream. Just delicious!
I followed a PageMaps sketch for this page, used patterns from the 6×6 Bo Bunny Beautifully Brisk paper pad, and designed and cut the title with my Cricut Maker. I added hand stitching in coordinating colors.
I was allowed to invite a few friends over to help me celebrate my birthday in 1975. We gathered in our basement to play games, open presents, and eat cake, and I think it’s easy to tell that I enjoyed every minute of it.
Left to right in the right photo:
Front row: Andrea, Phil, and Regina
Back row: Amy, Christine, Meg, and me
I created this page for a challenge during the Victoria Marie August online crop, which called for making it about yourself. I used products from the Echo Park Birthday Wishes collection.
My husband lived in Michigan until the age of 12, when his mom moved the family to the mountains of North Carolina. In these photos, circa 1979, Matt is building and populating dirt castles in their new (huge) front yard in NC. What a cutie!
I created this page for the “This or That” Paper Issues spring crop challenge. This required the use of one or the other, but not both of each pair below:
1. all cardstock or all patterned paper; 2. 4 of the same size circle or 4 of the same size rectangles; 3. silver or gold; 4. hand journaling or typed journaling; 5. enamels or flair, 6. ephemera or chipboard; 7. ribbon or twine; 8. matted photo or frame; 9. 3 photos or 2 photos; 10. sun or camera
I used papers from Bo Bunny, Jillibean Soup, and DCWV and created the title on my Silhouette.
Today Stuck?! Sketches launches our second challenge of January. Grab the sketch and play along for prizes from Creative Embellishments, DCWV, and Victoria Marie.
During my visit to see Mom and Phil in North Carolina last November, I asked Mom to teach me again how to knit. I’ve been able to crochet since grade school, but knitting has always sort of intimidated me. We have tried before, but it didn’t really stick then. This time I think it may have “gone in.”
I know I could learn by watching YouTube videos, but I really wanted to learn the basics from my mommy.
I used patterned papers, die cuts, and flair from various Crate Paper/Maggie Holmes collections and cut the title on my Silhouette.
Well, this is fun! I’m delighted to be joining a group of like-minded scrapbook enthusiasts to review our ten favorite layouts from the year. And if you read through to the end of the post, you’ll find details about my giveaway (open until January 3 at midnight CST).
Here is the list of participants so you can hop along and see them all:
Christine Meyer
Kathy Skou
Kathleen Graumüller
Teri Anderson
Susie Bentz
Janice Daquila-Pardo > That’s me!
Giorgia Rossini
Laurel Seabrook
Aimee Kidd
Mary Ann Jenkins
Keren Tamir
Lee-Anne Thornton
Heather Leopard
Tifany DeGough
Sue Eldred
Melissa Elsner
Laura Whitaker
Anita Mulcahey
Ashley Smith
Simone Schermann
Shelly Kurth
Monique Liedtke
Suzanna Lee
Marcia Dehn-Nix
Laura Cox
Irit Shalom
Nicole Martel
Carolyn Johnson
Tenia Nelson
Samantha Taylor
Rebecca Keppel
Judy Hayes
Isha Gupta
Traci Penrod
Tracy McLennon
Karen Hunter
Lyne Blodgett
Anna Sigga
Lisa Moen
Kat Benjamin
Wendy Antenucci
And now here are my top ten favorite pages from the past year (in chronological order):
I love this one because even with all those beautiful patterns and colors, our girl’s eyes still steal the show. She’s a stunner.
This one was fun to make because I was able to work in so many references to Disney, including those Mickey ears in the top left.
Hector was a turtle we found strolling down our busy street and scooped up so we could take him to a nearby pond. I like the simplicity of this page, allowing the story to be told by the patterned papers.
This page makes me happy because of the cute picture of my hubby and how the patterns and embellishment clusters work together. It’s a little bit masculine (but not too much!).
Again, I think I like this page because of the interplay of patterns and colors, not to mention that super sweet photo of my cousins on Easter morning 1968.
I love using bright colors and modern patterns with vintage photos…like this one of my mom on her 1965 honeymoon.
This photo of me is one I’ve had printed for ages, awaiting the right inspiration to hit. Once I found the unusual and beautiful color combination in this collection, it came together easily. I’m so pleased to have it recorded.
If you’ve read this far, you may have noticed that I love to mix lots of patterns on my pages. That, and the fact that I fit four decent sized photos on it, makes me quite happy with this one.
This page turned out just as I imagined it, which is such a joy for a crafter, isnt’ it? It was so much fun to die cut all those leaves and arrange them.
This photo of my dad reading a Christmas story to us is of such a wonderful memory that I had to do something special to record it. I love how all these bits of patterned paper came together to create my diamond focal point.
Thank you so much for stopping by my spot on the blog hop. If you would like to leave a comment and tell me if you have a favorite from my list, I would love to read it! Comments are always so appreciated.
I just created an Instagram account (I’m so late to the game, I know)! So, if you would like to be included in my drawing for a $15 GIFT CARD to the Paper Issues Store, please follow me on Instagram (@theconstantscrapper) and then leave me a comment on this post with your Insta account to let me know you did and so that I can follow you back. I will leave this giveaway open for one week (January 3) and announce a winner on January 4th!
Please note: I must approve comments for them to appear, so please don’t worry if your comment doesn’t post immediately. I will be checking and approving comments often.
To continue the blog hop in order, head over to Giorgia Rossini’s site.
Happy New Year!