This photo makes me smile whenever I see it. I think of a bright-eyed frog. So this Stampin' Up! stamp set was perfect to use on this page. It is the You're Sublime stamp set.
This week's page is the companion page to last week's. I repeated the button theme and added lace and a bow.
This is a 12" x 12" page and the photos are matted together on a piece of vellum. The vellum frames the photos and makes them the focal point. The simple rows of buttons and lace don't overpower the focal point.
I bet you already know that Stampin' Up! makes some pretty Designer Series Papers that are 12" x 12" and perfect for scrapbook pages. Sometimes I forget about using them to create pages. Today I wanted to use some fall Designer Series papers so I pulled out the Into the Woods paper pack but I also noticed that some of the papers from the Sweet Li'l Things paper pack coordinated quite well with it and added some variety. So Here's my completed page:
I used a Cajun Craze 12" x 12" card stock base and a Tangelo Twist card stock square in the center. There are also 3 squares that I stamped with Vintage Leaves and are left over from paper I created for the Tuesday Tutorial- Fall Panel card. I see that the dark green paper squares are from the English Garden Designer Series Paper pack. It was from a scrap in my scrap case and I thought it worked well with the other papers. It helps tone down the bright white in the other papers from the Into the Woods paper pack.
I was hoping that I could get this blog post finished before I went on vacation but it didn't happen. I took my laptop along so that I could create the post while I was on vacation, it didn't happen. I was just enjoying my family too much to even get on the computer much last week. This is the page that I created for the blog that I didn't get to...
The pocket page is an 8 1/2" x 11" six card layout. I will put it in the 12" x 12" album with the 12" page layouts, but I wanted to use this smaller page because I wanted to put all the photos on the same page to show the progression- what happened before the cute shot of my grandson poking his head out of the sand pit that his uncle had been digging. He was so excited about being in the sand and curious about what his uncle was doing, that he wanted to crawl right in. I only had two small pockets left and so I am using one of them for the journaling. Both of the journal cards are Project Life from Stampin' Up! cards. I'm not adding any embellishments to the photos because I don't want the distraction, I just want the photos to speak for themselves.
Here are the pages that Susie and I created for our bike trip photos.
The leaves are cut with the Autumn Accents Big Shot Bigz die from Whisper White paper that was spritzed with different colors of reinker ink and rubbing alcohol in Stampin' Spritzers. I stamped the swirl from Everything Eleanor stamp set several places and added the leaves on top. The title letters are cut with a Sizzix letter set called Bounce.
Thanks for stopping by today! Have a Blessed day, Trude