Scrapbooking Made Simple

Here's the layout I did using the tape I was telling you about. The above ribbon was white originally and I used ink and glitter paint to decorate it before peeling off the backing and sticking it down. The chipboard flower was decorated using paint and the title was hand cut from patterned paper. The glitter background paper used here was from a pack from Crazy Clarks. Bringing the price per sheet to $0.50c. I've got a back log of photos to try and get through before the baby gets here so I'm going for a very quick and simple style at the moment.

This layout is another 8 x 8 layout I have done. This is a photo of my daughter sleeping on her daddy as a baby. I used my alphabet punches to cut out the letters of the words "Sleeping Beauty" though the S and the B were done with chipboard. I love using easy replenishable methods like these to do my titles. Next I used a piece of wool to decorate down one side and then made ribbon flowers to decorate that border. Along that side of the photo I used a brass template to kindy glitz this shape onto the photo. I used my blade to cut out some of the paper so that I could tuck my photo in behind this.... like the paper is hugging my baby. A simple sticker with a saying on it added the final touch.

This is one of my latest creations. I did this as an 8 x 8 layout to go into an album recently given to me by my sister-in-law. This is the last photo I have of my wonderful mother-in-law. This was taken in Easter 2004. She died 2 months later. I've just started doing some layouts of my mother-in-law for my kids. I haven't done these before as I was busy doing the latest photos of the kids but then I found a couple of poignant photos and felt I just had to start on these. I think the reason I hadn't done this photo in a layout before was because I couldn't think of an appropriate title. Then I found this poem and just had to call the layout "Beautiful". Mind you I know she wouldn't of picked that title herself as she wasn't feeling very beautiful at this point. She had been in pain for many years with rheumatoid arthritis and then even more pain due to the tumour for the last 8 months of her life. By the time this photo was taken she'd had her bo...

Last night I had the house to myself for a couple of hours so I was able to do some scrapbooking! YEAH! The kids go back to school tomorrow so I should be back into the swing of it soon! Anyway this layout was alot of fun to do. I got the cardstock on special for $0.50c and the letters were a set that I got at the $2 Shop... mind you the box was $3.95..... so not $2 at all..... Anyway I really wanted a glittery paper for this layout and as I didn't have one and couldn't go to a scrapbook shop at 7pm I got the Kindy Glitz out and created my own! This is very easy to do. In a couple of the above photos you can see the effect I created as the paper is only half done with kindy glitz when I took the photo. Try this for your own effects. You can't get this wrong. Just turn your kindy glitz bottle upside down and let all of the liquid run to the top. Then get a pin and pierce the top. On a scratch piece of paper try out the product to ensure you've got an even flow t...

I picked up these Mat Stacks at my local Big W. You can see from the front that they are filled with gorgeous glittery papers. I think these are a great resource for your backgrounds especially with the current styles of layouts these will work perfectly. If current styles dictated a completely covered in one large 12 x 12 patterned paper then this wouldn't work. They do sell these in 12 x 12 stacks for $20.93 each but I felt that this was a better option as each of these only cost $8.95 and you get four sheets of each pattern so you could almost cover a 12 x 12 page. The bit I like is I bought three stacks for only $4 more than I would of paid for one 12 x 12 pack. I can't wait tohave sometime to scrapbook with these.... yummm!