Scrapbook Sunday

Hi everyone and welcome to another Scrapbook Sunday!

This first layout uses a photo left over from my holiday mini-book (which I still need to finish) of Ilfracombe, Devon last year. I've used Bazzill cardstock with BasicGrey papers, an American Crafts badge and Numbers. I finished off with a cross-stitch I stitched myself a while ago, it was a freebie in a cross stitching magazine that i've been holding onto for just such a purpose.

Usually, with my holiday photos I like to use an 8x8 post bound album with about 20 page protectors in it, and then I do a summary page to go in my 12 x 12 travel album (one layout per holiday).

This layout was inspired by Mandi's layout here. 

My husband Paul has been obsessed with Dunkin' Donuts for years and when we went on our honeymoon to New York City in 2009 he was very happy to find one down the street from our hotel. I think if he'd had his way he'd have had a box full every day we were there. Donuts aren't really my thing, I certainly wasn't as enthusiastic as he was about them but as you can see in the layout above, it didn't stop me having a few ; )

I took the brown, pink and mint colour scheme from the donuts themselves, but I must admit that i'm not that crazy about these colours together. However I have had these Papermania papers in my collection for years and these photo's were the perfect excuse to use them.

Scrapbook Sunday

I Used 2 B A Pencil:

Today's first page was inspired by this awesome Cosmo Cricket paper and I choose the blue and orange colour scheme to work with the paper and the photo of me as a little girl. Then it was a case of raiding my stash to find things that would work. I have to admit to loving the Bam Pop journaling spots, I just wish they would make them in bigger sizes too. I have real trouble layering journaling spots, they never look right to me. I think I would probably journal more on my layouts if I could find some big journaling spots because they're all so tiny and I hate writing straight on the page.

Journaling:

 "Although my initials were H.B. nobody seemed to link this to the well-known pencils. Instead, Bromberg got changed to 'Brom-burger.' Now i'm married, my name and initials spell out 'Hello.'

Helen = 'Hel,' Louise = 'L,' Overton = 'O.' "

 

U R My Silver Lining:

The idea for this layout I've had floating around in my head for a while, the original quote is "Every cloud has a silver lining" meaning, to me, that from every bad thing something positive will happen. My husband Paul means everything to me, he is my every happiness and he helps me through every bad or negative thing in my life. That's what this layout is about and ode to my husband, so he knows how special he is to me

I've been looking for some silver cardstock for ages to make this layout and I finally found some going cheap in The Range. The photo was taken when he was heading to a neighbour's baby's christening (I was working) and he looked sooo gorgeous I just had to take a photo.

Scrapbook Sunday

Hi everyone, and welcome to Scrapbook Sunday. This week's first layout is with a photo I took last summer (pre-diet, I should add) when myself and my mother-in-law used to go to Costa once a week for a coffee and a cake, or in my case, hot chocolate I don't like coffee.

The papers are a mix of old Sassafras Lass, a Hambly overlay and American Crafts Teen and Love ranges. I'm really happy with these photos, I took them on my phone and they came out rather well I think. The hearts and the cupcake were cut out of the American Crafts papers. The layout was all made from scraps.

The second layout is for my Book Of Me, I spent an afternoon last year with a bunch of t-shirts, scarves and hair accessories taking self-portraits to scrapbook. Not having kids, I have to admit to scrapbooking about myself rather a lot.



Most of the papers are BasicGrey Urban Prairie range, but the ones behind are old Papermania, it's pretty rare for me to mix manufacturers because I'm not very confident at it but I think these wrok well.