Boy To Man

Here's another Wisdom Wednesday prompted layout. Here's the post and below you can see my layout.

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TEMPLATE: Trixie Scraps Greatest Hits Vol. 6 by Trixie Scraps

KIT: One Happy Day by Trixie Scraps

FONT: Just Realize

Tough {To Be Me}

This came from a Sentiment Sunday post on the Trixie Scraps blog.You can read that here.

Here's my layout:

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TEMPLATE: Large and In Charge Vol. 2 by Trixie Scraps

KIT: That's My Boy by Trixie Scraps

FONT: king cool KC

100 Years

Another Master's Monday post. It's about using masks in Paintshop Pro. Read that here.

Here's my layout complete with 2 masks.

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KIT: That's My Boy by Trixie Scraps

TEMPLATE: After The Rain by Trixie Scraps

MASKS: Blue Jean Boy by Trixie Scraps

STITCHES: Great Wilderness Lodge (Retired kit) by Trixie Scraps

FONT: 1942 Report

It's Uh-a Me, Nate!

Master's Monday happens a lot on the Trixie blog and I get to write them a lot. This post was all about adding children's artwork to your layouts. Read more here.

Here's my fun layout.

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KIT: Blue Jean Boy by Trixie Scraps

TEMPLATE: Large & In Charge Vol. 2 by Trixie Scraps

FONTS: Super Mario Bros. (Title) and Eurostile (Journaling)

Flip A Layout

Another Master's Monday post for the Trixie Scraps blog. You can read it here. In the post I talk about updated old layouts. In my case I took some old layouts that I did the traditional way and in an 8 1/2 x 11 format and updated them with my digi scrapping.

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1 YEAR OLD

TEMPLATE: After The Rain Template Pack by Trixie Scraps

KIT: Best Year Ever by Trixie Scraps

STITCHES: Picture A Family by Trixie Scraps

FONT: KG This Is Not Goodbye

TEAM JAMMIES

TEMPLATE: Standing Alone Vol. 2 by Trixie Scraps

KITS: Out Of This World by Trixie Scraps

Pigskin Party by Trixie Scraps

FONT: Century Gothic

Cherish

It was Sentiment Sunday at the Trixie Scraps blog. I was happy to do this post again and chose the word Cherish. You can read more about that here.

In the mean time here's a look at the layout I created.

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TEMPLATE: A Banner Day Vol. 2 by Trixie Scraps

KIT: Spring In The Meadow by Trixie Scraps

FONT: Beautiful Every Time

Wild Hair

Somewhere along the way my Father in Law got a hold of this wild hair thing to show support for some sports team. My little guy put one on and his uncle threw the other one on his head. We got some photos and this is the layout that came from it.

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TEMPLATE: Bordered Vol. 2 by Connie Prince

KIT: Blue Jean Boy by Trixie Scraps

FONT: Boopee

Surprise Party

Another quick tip for a Master's Monday post at Trixie Scraps, you can read it here.

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KIT: Out Of This World by Trixie Scraps

TEMPLATE: Night Owl 0628 by Kathy Winters Designs

BRAVE

A couple months ago, over at the Trixie Scraps blog - a new topic was introduced. It is called Sentiment Sunday and I gave it a go with very tender feelings. You can read the post here. This is the layout I made for it.

What I loved most about this layout was that the kit I chose had the perfect wordstrips to work with my journaling.

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Kit: Bring On The Rain by Trixie Scraps

Font: Lindsey

Photos: Holly's Hobby's Photography

Mission: Accomplished

During our family photo shoot, the photographer got a great series of photos of my husband and his dad. This page is what I came up with from those photos.

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KIT: O-Daddy by OScraps

STITCHES: Defining Me (Retired) by Trixie Scraps

TEMPLATE: Trixie Scraps Triple Play Vol. 3 (Part of September 2013 Templatetopia)

FONT: Mom's Typewriter

PHOTOS: Holly's Hobby's Photography

Birthday Invite (The Real One)

Awhile ago I posted a tutorial of sorts where I made 2 different items - an announcement and and invite, you can read that here.

Anyway, I made that invite way before I knew what I really wanted to do for my kids' birthday, so when I got it figured out it required a change of plans. This is what the real invite looked like:

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KIT: My Superhero by Digi Designs by Nicole
(Could be an old kit, I wasn't able to find it in her store...)

FONT: Avengeance Heroic Avenger 

Party On!

I was waiting a bit before posting this layout, because I had hoped to get the other side made to it before doing so - but then my dear 5 year old son deleted the digital post-it note that I had detailing my supply list for quite a few layouts. Therefore, we're just posting them all now and praying I remember what I used...

Here's a birthday party layout when my almost 9 year old turned 5. 4 years ago - craziness!!!

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TEMPLATE: Multi-Photo Vol. 2 by Connie Prince (Part of North Meets South Studios April 2013 Templatetopia)

KIT: Batter Up by Crazy 4 Monograms

FONT: Cooper Black

A Pirate's Day

It's so much fun going back through old photos. It's crazy to look back at these days when I realize this kid will be 5 at the end of the week. How did 4 years go by so quickly?

I'm also loving April's Templatetopia by North Meets South. I'll probably be using this template pack for many more layouts, so keep an eye out.

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TEMPLATE: North Meets South Studios (Trixie Scraps Designs) Stampers Block Vol. 1 - Part of North Meets South Studios April Templatetopia

KIT: YoHo YoHo by Just So Scrappy

FONT: Calligraph421 BT

Iz Pizza Time

Still working my way through my 2009 pictures.

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TEMPLATE: North Meets South Studios (Connie Prince) Bordered Volume 2 - Part of North Meets South Studios April Templatetopia

KITS:  It's A Boy Thing by Crazy 4 Monograms and Cookout by Crazy 4 Monograms

#1 Duck

A couple weeks ago, Trixie of Trixie Scraps got together with Connie Prince and together they are North Meet South Studios and they came up with a great collab kit called Sailor Duck.

When Trixie posted in our forum that this kit was going to be released and she wanted layouts done, I requested the kit. Why? Because I had the PERFECT picture in mind and a story to go along with it. I did have to call my mom to get more information, but here's what I did:

This is a picture of my older brother. I just happened to have my mom's scrapbooks with me at the time and I immediately thought of this picture. But like I said, because I wasn't 100% on the details I had to call my mom and get them.

Such a funny story and I think my brother may still have a soft spot for that duck!

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KIT: Sailor Duck by North Meets South Studios

TEMPLATE: Trixie Scraps October Template Challenge

FONT: Donald (Had font for awhile, unable to find download link)

Creating Announcements And Invites

Another recap of a post I did at the Trixie Scraps blog.

Because April starts the beginning of a birthday a month for a few months, I decided to revisit the greeting card tutorial and expand on it a bit. You can read the full post here.

In short, I made a gender announcement card and a b-day invite. You can see both below.

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BABY BOY ANNOUNCEMENT

KIT: My Brother, My Pal by North Meets South Studios

FONT: CK Toggle

BIRTHDAY PARTY INVITE

KIT: Pigskin Party by Trixie Scraps

FONT: Freshman

Birthday Fun

Thank goodness for my friends. If it weren't for them, I'd probably never get any scrapping done.

My very pregnant friend messaged me last night asking if I wanted to scrapbook this morning. Of course I did. It means I have yet to clean my house, but I got a page done.

I probably could've done at least one more, but my friends backyard opens up into the park, so of course the kids wanted to play at the park and needed mommy to push them on the swing for 20 minutes. It was a wonderful morning.

I've been working my way through the pictures I have on my hard drive and that means it's the year 2009 and I'm working my way through the months. Today's pictures came from child #3's 5th birthday!

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KIT: Clowning Around by Crazy Scrap Chicks
TEMPLATE: Take Me Away by North Meets South Studios
FONT: Colour Me Purple

I'll Always Be Your Little Boy

In one of my last posts you'll remember that I mentioned something about finishing a page, but then finding an error in it. Well it's taken me a good 2 weeks to get back to revamping the layout. I had it finished a couple times, but due to my program crashing and forgetting to save my completed work - I was back to square one.

I finally took some time this morning and finished it up. I'm still not in love with it, but it's better than the first go around.

Here's a look at the first layout:

You'll notice that I forgot the last 'l' in little. The words Little Boy also don't stand out much. I fixed both those issues and a few more in the completed project:

I decided I didn't like the frames I had used previously, so I found a couple that came with the kit and used those instead. The alphas that came in the kit were only in blues and pinks, so I recolored it with a paper included in the kit. I think it helps it stand out a bit more.

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KIT: If The Crown Fits by Just So Scrappy
FONTS: Rough Typewriter (ALWAYS Word) and LD Vanilla (White Wordstrips)
LAYOUT: Creating Keepsakes - March/April 2010, Page 108

Subway Art in Scrapbook Form

The other day I did another post for Trixie Scraps. I know, I know. Without being a part of the CT over there, I'd get nothing scrapped...

Anyway, the post is all about using Subway Art in your scrapbook pages. You can read it here, it includes a tutorial of some form...

If you can't wait to read the post, I'll show you the cute layout that I did with it.

(Yes, I have the wrong year listed...It's fixed in the copy I'll print off)

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Kit: Spunky Monkey by Trixie Scraps Designs
Pictures: Cory Adams Photography (bought digital copyright when I purchased the picture) and personal photos
Fonts: Various - I didn't write any down, but if you really need me to, I'll figure it out for you

Why So Serious? - Revisited

I noticed I hadn't posted this layout yet. It was another one I did a post for over at Trixie Scraps, and you can read that post here. It was a post about using your imperfect photos.

This is a revisit of a previous layout, but I redid it in a 12x12 size and kind of like this newest layout:

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Pictures by Cindi Braby Photography
Everybody Fights Sometimes Kit by North Meets South Studios
Font: KG This Is Not Goodbye