I Love U

I am here today with a layout I created for the Hip Kit Club layout challenge. The challenge was to use their inspiration mood board. I used the I <3 U poster from the mood board and a layout by Ashley Horton.

I have been saving that Elle's Studio paper for quite some time and found those black Thickers in my stash. They were all falling off the sticker page so I thought it would be a good font that I had to use almost every letter of the alphabet from!

 

The patterned paper that I used was scraps from my stash. I used the new Elle's Studio stamps and lots of enamel dots! 

 

The red Thickers are a newer set from a Christmas collection. 

 

The photos were from my husband's 30th birthday party. Thanks for looking! 

You're the Best - Scrap Your Story

I am back this week for a challenge at Scrap Your Story! I have been so busy that I wasn't able to play along last week, but back again now! :)

The challenge this week is CHILDHOOD! You can interpret that anyway you want. The easiest way for me was to use photos of children. Well, I have tons of photos of my niece Alaina!  I just love these photos of my niece with my husband. He just loves that little girl and she sure loves him!

I used a technique from Paige Evans to make border strips of paper. Looking back on it, I wish I would have made the strips  a little more crooked, but I do like how it turned out! 

I used the Here and Now collection from Echo Park as well as some papers from their older lines. All of their stuff seems to match! 

Be sure to play along this week with Scrap Your Story! It is an easy challenge! :) 

Shine & Swagger

OK .. So I just LOVE this photo! My photographer snapped a few good shots of this "pose," but this one is by far my favorite. All the guys' faces are just priceless. Sure makes me wish I could go through my wedding day again! :)

This photo is 10x10 and what is nice about it ...  I didn't order it like that! After we got all of our professional photos back (and the copyright), we put all of the photos into Shutterfly books. Eight of them... 12x12 books... about $50 a book... you do the math! We did it when they were 40% off around Christmas, but it still was spendy.. but SO worth it! Who knows if I will ever scrapbook all the photos or even half of the photos, but at least all of the photos will be in books so that they can always be easily looked at!

Well.. this photo actually comes from one of those Shutterfly books. One of the books we received had two ink splatters on two different pages. I contacted Shutterfly and they sent me out a new book! What else would I do with the "ruined" book but cut out some of the pictures and use them on scrapbook pages.. right?!

I love this page! I knew there was not going to be much for layering like I usually do, but I wanted to have three embellishment clusters. I stitched in purple around the outside because it went with the turquoise that I used throughout the page and it was my wedding color. I figured I wouldn't be using purple much at all in my wedding photos because well, let's face it, purple isn't used much in scrapbooking! 

And Elle's Studio tag is always a good addition to a page! 

And a mix up of alphas! I have to say that I just LOVE that Lullaby font and color of Thickers AND I am running VERY low on them! :( A few pieces of washi tape and some gems and this layout was finished! Thanks for looking!