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.

 

 

Simple Scrapper September Premium Membership Blog Hop

This month, I scrapped two different seasons with the Simple Scrapper Premium Membership templates. I had one toe still dipped in summer even though we’re headed into fall!

I’d never scrapped these non-digital, underwater photos from our trip to Maui in 2003. I enjoyed pairing them with the brightly-colored Echo Park Paradise Beach Collection papers. It’s my third layout using the collection.

Simple Scrapper September Premium Membership Blog Hop

 

Supplies: Simple Scrapper Premium Membership Template; Echo Park Paradise Beach papers; Fonts: Rockwell (title) + Futura (journaling)

Last fall, our first as “empty nesters,” I made a point of capturing the signs of Halloween in our neighborhood, as well as during our weekend day-trip travels. For me the holiday is a perfect transition point between the fall and winter. I’m looking forward to doing the same this year. This is one of the first layouts in a long time in which I’ve put my journaling directly onto the page background.

Simple Scrapper September Premium Membership Blog Hop

 

Supplies: Simple Scrapper Premium Membership Template; Echo Park Apothecary papers and element; Crystal Wilkerson crumpled paper used as a mask; Katie Pertiet paint splatter; Font: Georgia

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
Jess Forster
Michele Holcomb
Margrethe Aas Johnsen
Amy Kingsford
Pam Lozano
Aimee Maddern
Valerie Mangan
Mandy Ross

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