Scrapbooking Made Simple

Hi Everyone, hope you all had a great new years. We had a fun night thanks to some good friends of ours. We had Pizza and a few drinks outside under the fairty lights and lanterns in front of our fire before heading inside and playing pictionary on the Wii. This was alot of fun and the kids had a ball. Then it was back to the the backyard where we watched the scarborough fireworks go off.  A lovely simple evening with lots of laughs and not driving and no crowds of people.. Perfect! Here is a layout I did of one of the many photos of our wedding vow renewal. We got so many fabulous photos of this day I've been doing lots and lots of layouts and canvas beyond the page projects.  I got the paper I used for my background when it was on special as it's been sitting in the shop for a while and the calendar journal spot was also on special so I felt I could lash out a little and use the crochet piece and the prima flower.  The title is one I punched out a long time ago using...

This layout is for the opposite page of "The ABC Song" Layout. I have used the same elements in terms of embellishments and patterned paper. I did change my fonts and alphabets for the titles though. I love this photo cause it's so random. Here my mother-in-law looks great as this was well before any illness had taken hold. My DS is looking cute too.....though the smile looks a little pained but that's cause he was trying to smile...lol The rubbons used here were very cheap $2 from a discount store near me. The stickers used for the "say" and "nana" are a set I got in a cheap packet of odds and ends. They were a latte colour and I just coloured them in with a felt pen and then painted them with glitter paint before peeling them and sticking them. And because I've recently fallen in love with the glittery papers from the Die Cuts with a View range I used Kindy Glitz to add some bling to the layout. My journalling is handwritten and follows aro...

I was in K-Mart yesterday and saw a "Page Talker". For those of you not familiar with these they are a little recording device you stick to your layouts that you can record sound on then whenever you turn to that page you can press play to hear the corresponding sound. I purchased one of these last year from a Scrapbook store for $19.95 but have to say the K-Mart version is cheaper at $12.95. There are differences of course. The one purchased from the scrapbook store has a better play button. The one I got from K-Mart is made by Grant Archival ( http://www.grant.com.au/ ). Neither of these is as easy to decorate as the one on The Scrapbook Lounge though. The Grant one requires you to decorate a piece of paper which you then attach to the unit with a stretchy band (this was not easy for me). But it does give you a template for cutting out your paper which the one from the Scrapbook Store did not. On Looking at the one from the scrapbook store it is made by imaginaton project a...