Simple Scrapper August Premium Membership Blog Hop

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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

Simple Scrapper August Challenge

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.

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CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #63

This week the CAS-ual Friday challenge is to create a Clean And Simple project using the colors-lime, aqua & navy.

I almost always enjoy color challenges and had some time to take two different approaches with my submissions.

The first uses one of my favorite Paper Smooches sets – “Reflections.”

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Supplies: Paper Smooches Reflections; Paper Smooches Simply Said; Memento + Archival inks

My second approach was a happy accident. I don’t own a nesting star die set; I own a Sizzix set that has four stars on one block. It took some finagling to position the banner strip in just the right place on the star die. I had planned to adhere the three banner strips to the card and have the negative space be empty. In other words, the stars would be the white of the cardstock underneath. But when I saw that the punched stars could be put back into the banner die strips, I decided I liked that idea better.

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Supplies: Echo Park papers; Paper Smooches Simply Said; MFT banner die; Sizzix star die; Memento ink

Stretch Your Stamps: Hero Arts Paper Cottage

I finally had a chance to make another card m the Stretch Your Stamps course, which finished up last week. This card was inspired by one of Kristina Werner’s. She used a different background stamp, a reverse stamp, giving a dramatic look.

I have only used this Hero Arts Basic Grey Paper Cottage collection background once before. It’s quite whimsical. For this card, I colored the stamped images with Copic markers. I had a hard time choosing which colors to use for which objects and felt frustrated with my lack of some softer Copics colors. I’m not a huge fan of purple, yet it seems I used that color the most! Well, the card is super simple to make, so another day I’ll color the image differently or try colored pencils.

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Supplies: Echo Park papers; Paper Smooches Simply Said; MFT banner die; Sizzix star die; Memento ink

Simple Scrapper: Shrinking a Double-Page Template

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