Joyful ~ Newborn layout for My Creative Scrapbook

Hello, friends! 

Today I'm excited to share a sweet design team layout with some newborn photos of our sweet grandson Lucas and his mommy. 

I really love all the papers in the 49 and Market Birdsong range which is the featured collection for the February Limited Edition Kit from My Creative Scrapbook. For my background paper here, I've chosen the Trilling Moments paper which is a lovely collage of birds and nests done in a vintage sort of way. Loving the color combo for this work, I gathered some other paper remnants that I'd been using and built up the photo layers beneath my two photos. For matting I've used the Sweet Notes paper. 

I did something kind of unique for me this time. I started my layout from the bottom and working upward!  Sounds crazy I know but I wanted to get my florals just so-so and created a floral nest for my photos. Then it was a matter of assembling and details, details, details, knowing approximately where I wanted my photos to reside. 

I've done an after the process video if you'd like for me to talk you through this work. (Which was fun all in itself!)

You can find it here: 

Here are some of the close-ups I took for this project: 

Above is the cut file for our kit this month. 

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You can also visit the Design Team gallery while you are there for more inspiration from our team. 

Thanks for coming by today! 

See you next time. 

Sandi

Share in our Joy! ~ SOUS 2-18-2011

Happy Friday, everyone! I for one am ecstatic that it is Friday .. been a long, busy week for me!

Today I want to share with you my take on the sketch that we are revealing for the next challenge at Stuck on U Sketches. I hope that you will hop on over there if you haven't been yet because we are introducing 4 new designers, saying good-bye to 2 and we introducing a new sponsor as well!   

For this page, I used my February Swirlydoos kit along with some flowers and ribbon from my stash. First, I had this awesome new photo of dgd Maddie with her fiancee, Marcos, that I wanted to scrap.  But secondly, my kit contained some of the new Graphic 45 Core'dinations embossed cardstock. Well, this piece has clocks on it with the hands set to 3:00 .... which is the time of day for Maddie's and Marcos' wedding  .. so my inspiration sprung from that clock. I cut my cardstock so that I could maximize the clocks and get the larger one approximately where there is a circular photo on the sketch. Then I sanded it really well for definition.  Using my craft knife, I trimmed around the clocks so that I could slip my larger photo behind them.

The word Joy was cut using my Cricut Winter Woodlands cartridge .. go figure?! Then I computer generated the words Share~in~our, printed them out, cut them apart and tucked them here and there among the Prima flowers.  I love that awesome feather that came in the kit. My journaling is partial wording from their wedding invitation.  I did quite a bit of distressing to my page .. good ole Zutter Distrezz-it-all .. plus a little hand tearing and folding.

The paper as well as the mirrored embellishment are TPC Studio Grandma's Attic.  I tucked a filmstrip between the mirror and a Prima flower.  

Here you can see the embossed clock and see how the sanding brings it to life.  I had lots of fun putting this page together .. I always enjoy working with earth tones.  

While you're here, let me remind you about the February promotion at Generations Crafting. Click  HERE for details.

Also, if you didn't read yesterday's post about my new GRANDSONS,  please scroll on down and take a peek at those cuties!

Thanks for coming by!