Category Archives: Layouts

layout – Grandpa Dease (WW2)

Posted in Digital Scrapbooking, Documenting Life, Family History, Layouts, Memory Keeping, Project Gal- Memorykeeping, Scrapbooking by

I will admit I have been procrastinating about starting work on a Family History Album.  Oh, who are we kidding, I’m sure it will end up being a series of albums.   Well, I was inspired this evening by one of my fellow Creative Team members who posted a lovely page with photos of her mom as a little girl.   I decided it was time to JUST START…so I did.

I kept my choices simple for this layout…

Templates:  Template Blends #1 by Little Feet Digital Designs,

Kit:  In the Headlines Today by Little Feet Digital Designs,

Font:  Remington Noiseless

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This is a digital layout of Charlie’s grandpa Dease who was in the Army during WWII.  The photos are from a DVD that Charlie’s uncle had made of photos that he’d scanned.  Now, I do not know any more details other than Grandpa didn’t go to Europe until after the war ended, I’ll have to get Charlie and his mom to fill in more information, and I’ll go back in and add the info as I get it.

I have no plans for a the structure of a Family History Album Series (other than this project is kicking up toward the top of my to-do pile) and quite frankly, that has kept me from making layouts because I didn’t have a plan.  I am trying to “begin with the end in mind” on big projects but now that I’m really starting to think about it… I may just start and see where it all leads!

Layout – Silly Hats

Posted in Craft, Creative Practice, Documenting Life, Handmade, Layouts, Life in 2014, Make Stuff, Memory Keeping by

I managed to eek out another layout this week…working in bits of time between dinner prep and soccer pickup and finishing up in the morning after everyone left for school.  I am really fortunate to have a “room of my own” where I can leave a layout or project out on my worktable and let things percolate for awhile… or until my Studio Assistant knocks things onto the ground.

This layout was for a class at BPC called Stashbusters Anonymous and week 1 was layouts to help use up your paper stash.  I’m writing up a post now on de-stashing but wanted to share one of the layouts I did featuring chevrons … 1/2″ strips across the whole page…then I realized that my base paper was 12×13 not 12×12…needless to say there will be some trimming of the left side going on but that’s OK, it will only reinforce the asymmetry of the page.

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And while I will take a formal portrait of the page when it’s all trimmed and adhered to a piece of card stock (the edges are curling up right now) I really kind of like messy slice of life photos that show some studio details too.

Enjoy and here’s to a beautiful spring weekend ahead and a joyous Easter  tomorrow!  What projects are you working on over the weekend?

 

 

layout – 9 Things about 9 Walter

Posted in Documenting Life, Fred, Layouts, Life in 2014, Memory Keeping, Pets by

Yes, I’ve been doing more memory keeping.  I have notebooks full of ideas and stacks of supplies that I am committed to using up!  I was reading Ali Edwards blog last week and she had made a layout detailing the things she loved about her home (instead of always thinking about what could be better….Of which I am completely guilty!!!)  I decided to take her challenge and use a hand drawn grid, write out 5+things about my home and making a layout w no photos… Celebrating what we love about this house was definitely in order (2 1/2 yrs later!)  AND I found the perfect use for this darling October Afternoon paper I have been hoarding for years!  I love how it came out!!

Details… so much fun digging around my stash for goodies to fill up the grid!

 

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Full layout here….I’m still working on my photography skills…bear with me!

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And just in case you were wondering….

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Yes, it’s Studio Assistant approved…. He has to sit on everything around here!

 

What projects have you been working on?

 

layout – Winter Share

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Today’s layout is a digi-layout (I’m toggling back and forth between digi and paper lately…have a lot of supplies in each format to work through!)  I’m featuring Little Feet Digital Designs April Freebie  “Earth Day” created for the PixelScrapper blog hop.  This beautiful mini-kit is available FREE from LFDD only through April 31 so get it while it’s hot, and there, and well…free.  Click HERE for the link to LFDD blog.  Of course, me being me I did not scrap with an “Earth Day” theme…I decided to showcase the photo I took when I brought home our December Share  from Co-op, the last one for the season.  Little miss you-know-who of course, has to inspect everything.

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Enjoy and Hop on over to Little Feet Digital Designs and download this freebie kit before it’s all gone!

Have a great Saturday everyone!!

Layout Share – 2013

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Hello again!

Well, once I started organizing, and got 2012 done.  I couldn’t stop.  It was so great to get my digital files in order that I just kept going….and finished 2013!  I will be posting this week about how I have decided to organize my digital layouts, but for now, you can click HERE or the Memorykeeping tab above and come take a look!

Have a great day everyone!

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