Scrapping My Favorites

Simple Scrapper has a fun challenge planned for December – to scrap about one’s favorites and to include a picture of oneself on the layout. I’m working on some assignments ahead of time so that the holiday season is a tad less hectic. I’m looking forward to embracing the activities of the season with energy and enthusiasm.

Last weekend I had the pleasure of visiting my youngest son in Boulder, where he is a sophomore at the University of Colorado. It was easy for me to come up with favorites from Boulder! And Paul insisted that he take a photo of me in front of the Flatirons, enshrouded in clouds. This layout is not in my usual clean and simple style – I wanted to create an outdoorsy, but still cozy/comfy, layout evoking the textures and colors of the fall season.

Boulder October 2012 Scrapbook Page

 

Supplies: Simple Scrapper Premium Membership Template; Robyn Meierotto Designs papers + elements; Cinzia Designs paper + tag; Sahlin Studio button; Katie Pertiet paint splatters; Lauren Script; Traveling Typewriter

Simple Scrapper October Premium Membership Blog Hop

This month, I scrapped several memories from past autumns with the October Simple Scrapper Premium Membership templates. For more about how I’ve not only increased my scrapping productivity but also maintained my enthusiasm for scrapbooking, you can read Scrapping With the Seasons.

With the first template I scrapped a flight my family took in a small floating plane several Augusts ago. The tilted template in the collection was a perfect fit for my photos.

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Supplies: Simple Scrapper Premium Membership Template; Echo Park For the Record 2 Documented; Echo Park This and That Charming; Katie Pertiet Going Away; Bebas title font; Rockwell journaling font

A few weeks ago I kitted up some paper supplies from last fall that I used to document a fun day trip we took when we lived in Massachusetts. I don’t do a lot of paper scrapping, but once I’d gathered everything together, I realized how easy it would be to do something with the products.

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Supplies: Simple Scrapper Premium Membership Template; American Crafts Nightfall paper and embellishments; Amy Tangerine paper; American Crafts for Studio Calico Thickers; Century Gothic journaling font

With the third template from the collection I scrapped some “outtake” photos from our holiday photo session two years ago. At the time, these photos were mostly ignored because they didn’t fit the bill for the card. Now, they’re priceless! I love seeing the joy on my sons’ faces as they clown around.

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Supplies: Simple Scrapper Premium Membership Template; Echo Park This and That Charming

Check out the inspiration from the rest of the Simple Scrapper Design Team using this month’s templates and be sure to enter this month’s giveaway for a one-month trial subscription to Simple Scrapper.

Julie Aldridge
Sue Althouse
Jeryn Carlisi
Lisa Corbin-Polak
Ronnie Crowley
Michele Holcomb
Margrethe Aas Johnsen
Amy Kingsford
Pam Lozano
Aimee Maddern

The Premium Membership at Simple Scrapper provides skills and shortcuts to help you simplify and find more meaning in your memory keeping.

Simple Scrapper’s First Mini Book Kit

Jennifer Wilson of Simple Scrapper has just opened the Simple Mini Books shop. I had the honor of creating a mini book documenting my grandmother’s life with the Everyday Sweetness 6×6 Scrapbook Kit. Be sure to check out the inspiration in the trailer – the kit lends itself to a wide variety of themes and styles!


Bittersweet Departure

Told the story of my eldest son’s return to college with a single-photo layout using a template from the Simple Scrapper Premium Membership September collection. I turned to Echo Park for some masculine-feeling papers and elements.

Bittersweet Departure

 

Supplies: Simple Scrapper Premium Membership Template; Echo Park For the Record 2 Documented; Echo Park Note to Self; Sahlin Studio Typeset Alphas No. 1; One Little Bird Pedal Pusher button; Slab Tall X font

Just One Photo

I’m over at Simple Scrapper today talking about telling the story with a one-photo layout.

This morning my eldest son headed back to Bellingham for his final quarter of college. Since my youngest left last month, my husband and I are again empty nesters. Not only that, our summers with our eldest son are officially over. Goodbyes are hard! I snapped a few photos of him as he drove off with a future one-photo scrapbook layout in mind.