NSD pages

I've said this before, but I think it's serendipitous that National Scrapbook Day is the same day as Free Comic Day. This year my husband and the boys made it a super day, going to two stores and then seeing Spiderman, which left me to scrap all day, uninterrupted. Here's what I did:

My goal was to kill at least one old kit. I killed two. Even better, I love them all. Usually when I'm working with the dregs at the end, I am dissatisfied, but not this time. I really love these pages, especially the last one, where I pulled out a mask and some mist and added a background paper from my stash to round it out. The journaling idea came from a pin on Pinterest; you can find it if you search "bro." (After I made the page, my son came up with "Bromama," which is awesome and reminds me that I need to consult my boys when I scrap more often.)

I finished everything on NSD with this page except the jouranling and stitching. Here it is:

It's another of my 100 most important moments pages I'm making. I am using color blocking on kraft paper and running stitching with each layout to make the album cohesive. You don't need the same products to make an album cohesive; design will do it.

I'm so happy after this NSD weekend. It was so much fun to scrap the stories, use the product, and be creative. Come back later this week for a chance to win a class at Big Picture Classes!

Pinterest inspiration

I pin on Pinterest and love the inspiration that I get from it. Sometimes I wonder how to translate that inspiration into a scrapbook layout. Here's one thing I did.

First, the pin from Kathleen Rogers:


SO adorable. However I found myself drawn to the cupcakes more than the flags. (Maybe I was hungry!) So I took the inspiration and created this layout:


I have the orange in the center (the pumpkin in the pin), circles (cupcakes) surrounding it, and "sprinkles" of mist all around the outside.

Here's the papers I used:

First, I used some red papers from Elementary, My Dear.

Next:


Trick Pony from Funhouse


Sunday Morning from Youthful Eggsuberance

A couple things I did to finish the page:


I stitched the circles down with a couple straight stitched, then I slowly swirled a few more stitches around the straight stitches.


And to add one more photo, I trimmed it into a circle, then cut a slightly larger circle out of the photos block to house it. I lay the journaling on top of it.

I enjoyed using this pin, not to recreate the actual craft but to take its inspiration to create an original layout. I hope you go use those pins to make a page!