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March Simple Scrapper Blog Hop + Giveaway

Welcome! Today I’m sharing layouts I created with this month’s Simple Scrapper Premium Membership templates, as well as this month’s Story Starters.

This month I was drawn towards memories from sunny vacations! (In other words, I was not scrapping “with” the seasons as I usually do!)

I scrapped a Disney World trip from summer 2004. I have really been enjoying the combination of orange and blue of late.

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I scrapped a day at the beach here in the Pacific Northwest from a few years ago. And again, used some blue and orange!

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Finally, for this month’s Story Starters, I created a layout about a boat trip we made during a vacation to Guatemala a few years ago. It was quite the adventure getting into a small boat to head out across Lake Peten Itza for Flores, a city on an island.

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Check out the fabulous inspiration from the rest of the Simple Scrapper Design Team:
Simple Scrapper (Jennifer Wilson)
Jeryn Carlisi
Lisa Corbin-Polak
Ronnie Crowley
Kim Gehring
Michele Holcomb
Margrethe Aas Johnsen
Amy Kingsford
Samantha Landay
Pam Lozano
Aimee Maddern
Jean Manis
Van Nguyen
Melissa Priest
Celeste Smith
Sara Case Strickland

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The Premium Membership at Simple Scrapper provides skills and shortcuts to help you simplify and find more meaning in your memory keeping. Each month members receive a new collection of sketch templates and Story Starters, story-focused prompts for pages and projects.

Feb Simple Scrapper Blog Hop + Giveaway

Welcome! Today I’m sharing layouts I created with this month’s Simple Scrapper Premium Membership templates, as well as this month’s Story Starters. Click on the images for supplies used.

This month I scrapped photos from December and New Year’s Day. First up is a layout about the annual trip my husband and I take to a local nursery for our holiday greenery.

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I can count on one hand the photos that we took of our two sons in 2012. So as 2013 was rung in, I insisted we celebrate with a photo! We headed up to Snoqualmie Pass for a quick, and cold, photo at the base of the ski area.

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For this month’s Story Starters theme – “Hopes and Dreams” – I compared the hopes and dreams for my eldest son from two different time periods. What better time to “take note” than upon a life event such as graduation. The photo on the left was taken at his college graduation in December; the photo on the right was taken when he was about nine months old.

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Want to win a one-month Simple Scrapper Premium Membership? Visit the team member blogs and look for the entry link. Entries will be pooled and one winner selected at 11:59pm CST on Wednesday, February 6. You may enter from multiple blogs. Use this link to enter for a one-month trial membership: http://ow.ly/ctrlx.

Check out the fabulous inspiration from the rest of the Simple Scrapper Design Team:

Simple Scrapper (Jennifer Wilson)
Jeryn Carlisi
Lisa Corbin-Polak
Ronnie Crowley
Michele Holcomb
Holly Humbert
Margrethe Aas Johnsen
Amy Kingsford
Samantha Landay
Pam Lozano
Aimee Maddern
Lauren Hague Madsen
Van Nguyen
Melissa Priest
Mandy Ross
Sara Case Strickland

January Simple Scrapper Blog Hop + Giveaway

Welcome! Today I’m sharing a single-photo layout I created with one of this month’s Simple Scrapper Premium Membership templates. I chose to play with the recently released Amy Tangerine Ready, Set, Go digital collection from American Crafts.

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Want to win a one-month Simple Scrapper Premium Membership? Visit the team member blogs and look for the entry link. Entries will be pooled and one winner selected at 11:59pm CST on Wednesday, January 9. You may enter from multiple blogs. Use this link to enter the giveaway for a one month trial membership to Simple Scrapper: http://ow.ly/ctrlx.

Don’t forget to check out the fabulous inspiration from the rest of the Simple Scrapper Design Team:

Julie Aldridge
Jeryn Carlisi
Lisa Corbin-Polak
Ronnie Crowley
Kim Gehring
Michele Holcomb
Margrethe Aas Johnsen
Amy Kingsford
Samantha Landay
Pam Lozano
Aimee Maddern
Melissa Priest
Sara Case Strickland

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

Simple Scrapper December Premium Membership Blog Hop

Welcome! Today we’re hosting a Simple Scrapper Team blog hop using this month’s Simple Scrapper Premium Membership templates.

In keeping with my “scrapping with the seasons” approach, I scrapped three Christmas season layouts.

The first captures Christmas morning for my sons from 1994. My youngest was just a year-and-a-half old at the time. I created the flairs digitally using both elements and papers in my stash. I did a bit of hue and saturation modification so that they would match the colors in the paper.

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For my second layout, I used non-traditional holiday colors to bring out the colors in the photo. A few years ago, we toured Christmas Tree Lane in Oxnard, California’s historic district. Taking nighttime drives to view lights is one of our favorite holiday traditions.

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Lastly, I scrapped the Langley, Washington, holiday parade. We’ve been attending this the last couple of years. It’s small-town holiday fun at its best. The layout came together quickly with the new collab at Design House Digital “Here Comes Santa.”

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Want to win a one-month Simple Scrapper Premium Membership! Visit the team member blogs and look for the entry link. Entries will be pooled and one winner selected at 11:59pm on Tuesday, December 4. You may enter from multiple blogs.

Use this link to enter a giveaway for a one-month trial subscription to Simple Scrapper: http://ow.ly/ctrlx

Check out the inspiration from the rest of the team:
Sue Althouse
Kate Christensen
Lisa Corbin-Polak
Ronnie Crowley
Michele Holcomb
Margrethe Aas Johnsen
Amy Kingsford
Pam Lozano
Aimee Maddern
Mandy Ross

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 2012 Holiday Kit Part Two

This past week I finished my December/Holiday mini book using Simple Scrapper’s 2012 Holiday Kit. (I first shared details about the kit and my project last week.) Click on any of the images for an enlargement.

One of my double-page spreads focuses on our tradition of sending greeting cards each year. For this spread, I created the journaling circle in Photoshop. The Pink Paislee tag and the Elle’s Studio number tag are both part of the kit.

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One of my favorite pages in the album documents our tradition of going out to see Christmas lights. I stamped one of the kit’s Pink Paislee tags with an Ali Edwards Technique Tuesday stamp. The “Merry & Bright” tape strip is from Crate Paper and is also included in the kit. For the most part, rather than add the Crate tape strips as I went along, I waited until I was done and added them to pages for a little extra spot of color.

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Another double-page spread documents our family’s letters to Santa. I have letters to Santa from my mother (written in 1933 with my grandmother’s help), a letter written by me, and several written by my sons.

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For the center of this spread, I punched one of the Pink Paislee tags to which I added a photo of Santa. On the back, I journaled about our various Santa “sightings.”

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I scanned and printed a couple of my sons’ letters to Santa. I also scanned the letter written by my grandmother for my mother and put it into the envelope included in the kit. The envelope is just behind the Santa card. I liked being able to personalize the book with these extra additions.

I also used a double-page spread to write about our stockings. This page includes a rare photo, taken by my brother-in-law, of my husband and I together after the stockings were stuffed.

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I wanted to have a dedicated page talking about my husband’s aunt’s Christmas angels. These are more than ninety-years-old and have a special place in our annual decorating.

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The album wouldn’t be complete without a nod to the soggy, stormy weather that we have this time of year in the Pacific Northwest. In the same manner as the aforementioned Crate Paper tape strips, I used the Cosmo Cricket word stickers from the kit to add subtitles to the pages. The “keep calm and carry on” sentiment was the perfect addition to a page documenting a three-day power outage.

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Because my album documents many previous Christmases, it is definitely heavy on journaling. If I were creating an album for a specific year, it would be primarily photos with brief captioning.

I’m thrilled to have this mini album as part of my memory-keeping library and look forward to seeing the various approaches scrappers take to creating mini albums this upcoming December.