Category: scrapbooking

I particularly enjoyed scrapping with this month’s Simple Scrapper Premium Membership templates. I prefer to scrap seasonally, so I used photos and memories from previous summer vacations in my layouts. (We’re having a stay-vacation this year.)

For the single-photo template, I chose a photo from a 2003 vacation to Maui. We met up with photographer Rick Larsen in Kaanapali at sunset for a family photo shoot.

Supplies: Template from Simple Scrapper Premium Membership; Echo Park Paradise Beach; Everyday Storytelling: Summer by Kristin Cronin Barrow and Jenn Barrette (chevron paper); Katie Pertiet kraft; photo by Ric Larsen; Pacifico (title) and Futura (journaling)

With the two-photo template, I scrapped photos from a vacation to Martha’s Vineyard in 1999. To be honest, it’s hard for me to tell if these photos are from 1998 or 1999, but Paul happens to be wearing a hat in the photo that he received from my aunt in April 1999. Thank goodness for clothing clues!

Supplies: Template from Simple Scrapper Premium Membership; Pink Paislee; Designs by Dani; Echo Park; Katie Pertiet; Fonts: Lobster (title), Traveling Typewriter (journaling)

For the multi-photo template, I scrapped our tour of the Eiffel Tower in 2007. The photo of the tower worked well in the tall photo spot.

Supplies: Template from Simple Scrapper Premium Membership; Echo Park Note to Self; Patti Knox brads; Fonts: Gloucester MT (title) and Futura (journaling)

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

Julie Aldridge
Sue Althouse
Lisa Corbin-Polak
Ronnie Crowley
Jess Forster
Michele Holcomb
Margrethe Aas Johnsen
Aimee Maddern
Valerie Mangan
Amy Kingsford
Pam Lozano
Kat Tankersley

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

This month the Simple Scrapper Challenge is to create a layout using a 3×3 grid, based on the sketch below. There’s a link at Simple Scrapper for a free digital template.

I scrapped photos from a 1998 vacation to Tortola primarily using the Echo Park Paradise Beach digital kit, along with elements from assorted Echo Park kits and a custom-blend of Katie Pertiet’s kraft papers. I haven’t done much scrapping using bits and bobs or a miscellany of items. It was fun to work on each square individually while at the same time take into consideration the whole picture.

 

My article for the “Take Two” series at Simple Scrapper is up. In this installment I show the process of shrinking a double-page template into a single-page layout.

I wanted to create a layout using photos taken during one of my family’s road trips in the early 1960s.  Despite the fact that the quality of the photos isn’t great, I’m thrilled to have reconstructed a little bit of my early childhood history on a scrapbook page.

 Supplies: Sketch from Simple Scrapper Premium Membership; Basic Grey PB+J Collection Kit; Basic Grey PB+J chip alpha; My Mind’s Eye brad; Studio Calico paper sunburst

This month the Simple Scrapper Challenge is to create a layout with the red, white and blue color scheme that is not documenting a July 4th event. I scrapped sailing photos from a 1998 vacation to Martha’s Vineyard combining two templates from the Simple Scrapper Premium Membership collection. I used a heavy dose of neutrals and just a touch of red, along with one of my favorite paisley-patterned papers, made by Sahlin Studios.

Supplies: Template from Simple Scrapper Premium Membership; Digital papers and elements from: Katie Pertiet (stitched label, map banner, kraft paper, staples, paint); Anna Aspnes; Sahlin Studio

Check out the rest of the Simple Scrapper Team’s layouts for the challenge.

This month, I did a fair amount of scrapping with the Red, White and Blue color scheme, including a layout for the Simple Scrapper’s July challenge Design Team article, which I’ll share next week.

My two-page layout using templates from the July Simple Scrapper release documents time spent on Martha’s Vineyard in the late 1990’s. These photos were taken with a film camera and scanned for the digital layout. The release includes grid templates that can easily be paired with focal photo templates, as I’ve done here. I think it’s evident that my sons enjoyed the countless hours they spent on the dock of the home we rented in MV.

Digital Supplies: Template from Simple Scrapper Premium Membership; Audacious Designs Currently papers; Agnes Biro En Route element (fish); Crystal Wilkerson element (star sticker); Katie Pertiet papers (red, navy) and element (staple); Robyn Meierotto paper (woodgrain)