June gallery for Write Click Scrapbook

This month's gallery for Write Click Scrapbook celebrates our inspiration from the past year. I was inspired by this page from Amy Sorensen:

I love the mix of font styles and sizes on the left. Here's what I did:

I didn't use a computer or stickers. Instead, I pulled out my neglected letter stamps and stitched a couple words to boot. LOTS of mistaken stampings on this page. Embrace the oops! Here's some details, mistakes and all:

I forgot to put a date on my page, so I think I'll put it in these two blank tags under the title.

I was going to stitch in orange, but I thought pink would enrich the color scheme. It's really easy to stitch something handwritten; just handwrite the word, punch holes about 1/4 inch apart, erase the pencil lines, and stitch! I prefer 3 strands of DMC on paper.

See the big oops here? :-)

Thank you for checking out my inspiration and my page! I hope you can check out Write Click Scrapbook and get inspired some more!

June pages for Scrapbook Circle

The turn of the month brings new pages for Scrapbook Circle! Summer is my favorite time for scrapping. I love the bright colors and playful products in the June kit Have a Little Fun Today. Here's what I created.

When I was walking the dog one morning,  I noticed a sort of camaraderie among the walkers. This inspired the page I made. Here's the details:

Next was a page about one of our favorite restaurants, the Freehouse:

Then a page about my sons' relationship. By far these are my favorite pages to make.

The font for the title is Mission Script. Love it.

Next, a page also using some die cuts from The Cut Shoppe:

I've started scrapping the family stories, the ones we tell again and again. This one shares how my husband and I lived parallel lives on opposite coasts until we met at the Mall of America. You can't make this stuff up.

A creative tip: any time I damage a sticker, I add a sticker on the tear to hide it.

Finally a page I shared earlier this week for Simple Scrapper:

I hope you enjoyed these pages and that they inspired you to create! Please check out Scrapbook Circle and be inspired. This kit is one of my favorites!

Simple Scrapper June pages--and a sale!

Hello! The month is winding down, and I wanted to share what I created for Simple Scrapper. Before I do, I'd like to draw your attention to the waning hours of this terrific promotion:

Before June 1, you can save 20% on a 6 month membership to Simple Scrapper! Enjoy inspiration for stories and design, participate in focus groups to help energize your scrapbooking and simplify your process. Follow this link to join!

And now my pages:

This first page I used some photos from Christmas to scrap my son's long-time love of Legos. I used a new sketch and an old story starter for inspiration, plus June's Scrapbook Circle kit Have a Little Fun Today. Love the Crate Paper products from the kit! Here's some details:

I sewed along the stripes on the background paper for some added dimension. Time consuming and not so simple, but I like the result.

And then another history page, this time a history of Star Wars and me:

I used a new story starter and an old sketch for this. I do actually have Star Wars scrapbooking products (of course I do), but I prefer suggesting the theme instead of going all literal. I chose products with stars and some graphic black and white products, a la Darth Vader and the Stormtroopers (that sounds like a band). Here's some details:

I had taken these photos of me and the boys on Star Wars day. My husband had been teaching at a conference on that day, so he wore his Jedi robe and sent me this picture. The Force is strong with us.

Thank you for checking out my pages! I hope you go visit Simple Scrapper to check out the sale and see everything that membership has to offer.

Scrapbook Circle anniversary blog hop

Hello! It's Jennifer Larson, and I'm so thrilled to be a part of the Scrapbook Circle 9th Anniversary blog hop!

This week we are doing a blog hop around to the design team members' blogs to showcase some of the fun things we have created with the May Hello Sunshine Kit. The hop starts at the Scrapbook Circle blog. Comment along your way while visiting our team members' blogs. Each comment will be one entry in a random drawing where we will be giving away FIVE May Hello Sunshine Kits.
We hope you feel inspired today!

Comments close at midnight PST on May 21. Winners will be posted on the Scrapbook Circle blog on May 22.


Here is the project I'd like to share that I made using the Hip Hip Hooray Chicken Wire Project kit:

I like to plan meals for a few weeks, using recipes I cut out of magazines. I store those in a brag book, but I periodically go through them and pull some that I'd like to make. Until I made this frame, I have kept them on the counter, where they would become decrepit. I made this frame to store recipes I pulled with the intent to cook. Here's some details:

The trickiest thing for me on this project was adhering everything. I adhered the overlay on the patterned paper from the May kit by adding glue dots on the back of the white dots, and I adhered the overlay to the back of the chicken wire with some strategically-applied staples. (A regular stapler works better than a mini attacher.) I used the clothespins and the stapler to adhere the pockets to the frame.

The doily I adhered with glue dots to the overlay, plus the clothespin.

And here's the frame with some recipes that I'm planning to make in the pockets!

Thank you for checking out my project! Here's the whole blog hop in order:

Diana Waite

Rebecca Keppel

Audrey Yeager

Jenni Calma

Gina Lideros

Mona Glod 

Valerie Huang

Jennifer Larson  - That's me!

Jamie Leija

Diana Fisher

Tessa Buys

Lisa Andrews

Be sure to visit the rest of the hop between the 18th and the 21st and leave comments for a chance to win. Comments close at midnight PST on May 21. Remember that winners on the Scrapbook Circle blog on May 22. Enjoy your inspiration!

Photo Crush: a free event from Simple Scrapper

I got a digital camera a year before my first son was born. For the first year or so, I treated these photos like I would print photos: keep everything, no matter how bad the shot. I grew more discriminating as the years went by, but I dread looking back into those early years, when I saved everything and tagged nothing.

If you've been experiencing something similar, here's something for you--and it's free!

Simple Scrapper membership allows you an opportunity and resources to make scrapbooking simpler, easier, and more enjoyable for you. Photo Crush will give you the chance to experience some of that as Jennifer Wilson helps you manage your digital library over the course of seven days. Click here to sign up for free.

I hope you sign up, and I hope you find it reinvigorates your memory keeping! Now I need to go dig through some photos myself to get scrapping.

New Pages at Scrapbook Circle: Hello Sunshine!

Hello! It's National Scrapbook Day, and I'm happy to share my pages that I made with the Scrapbook Circle May kit. Before I do, I want to share this wonderful opportunity:

Today Scrapbook Circle is having a hop on Instagram to celebrate National Scrapbook Day and their 9th anniversary! You have a chance to win one of five kits this weekend. The design team is doing an Insta Round Robin starting at 9 A.M. CST where you can visit the team's feed and be inspired with creations from the May kit. Scrapbook Circle will be selecting five kit winners from names of those who comment on team members' photos. Just tap the photo to see who to visit next! You will start at Scrapbook Circle's Instagram page.

And here's the pages I made with the kit:

I've had this photo of the boys for a while, not knowing what to do with it. Now that they are leaving elementary school, this shot of them at school with a rainbow behind them seemed a good photo to use on a page that looks back and looks ahead. The colors in the May kit fit perfectly with the colors in the photo. Design tip: the printables fit just right in the photo frames from the main kit!

Next is a page about my favorite things:

Mind you, I don't normally take photos like this of myself, but I had just gotten my phone back after having it repaired. (I had dropped it in the toilet--taking it out of my pocket, a bent edge of my case hooked my pocket, where it then flew out of my hands and into the drink. Sigh.) I trimmed the photo up to look like a Polaroid. LOVED layering all the bright and happy colors with this. The Sweet Day add-on and the Hello Love Add-on served me well here.

I found the letter stickers to be easier to use after I outlines them. And the layers I stitched, something I haven't done before, but I'm going to do again. Loved the look!

Now I have a  two-page layout used with some of the more masculine hues in the kit. I had 12 photos, and they were pretty dark, so I printed them small and lay them on a big random pile. Just for interest, I had the wood stretch over the page break.

Finally, the page I'm sharing on Instagram today. Since May is the month we celebrate mothers, I wanted to make a page to celebrate my Grandmother Henri, Great Granny Rahn to the boys. She is GORGEOUS and still so creative, even though she is over 90 years old. I used delicate, frilly patterns and bright, happy colors on this page, and I really dipped into the Hello Love Add-on  and Sweet Day Add-on for this page:

Thank you for checking out my pages! Now if you haven't yet, go to the Scrapbook Circle Instagram page and start the hop! It begins at 9 A.M. CST today.

May gallery at Write Click Scrapbook: Everydaily

Hello! This first of May brings one of my favorite topics for the gallery at Write Click Scrapbook: Everydailies. For this I made a page about one of my favorite things: reading. Here it is:

I wrote about this page a lot at WCS. A local NPR host requested people to take photos of their bookshelves and tweeting them, calling the #shelfies. I LOVED this idea and made a page about my shelves, which I've taken to school so my students can read.

CREATIVE NOTE: The chevron punched corder was supposed to be even (oops), so I made it more uneven on purpose after I messed up the first time. Happy accident! And here's a detail:

Thank you for checking out my May page! And now you can go check out more magnificentt pages on Write Click Scrapbook.