Sweet Baby Emily

 Yes of course this is me as a newborn, they are originals so they again are in photo corners.

I love this layout for an unexpeted combination with cosmocricket!  The background paper from them is from their joyride collection, never thought you could use i for a newborn could you?!  Stitched ontop is brenda walton kandcompany chocolate neopolitan stack.  The strong contrast of brown is a really eye catcher. To always mellow a layout out dictionary paper, and kandcompany matstack paper set a great foundation for my pictures.

The title for this I believe came from twopeas, I have never done a baby layout before and this was a title I sure did not know to add.  Wooden letters from kandcompany and my name is girls paperie stickers, love the influence of writing on them.

I anchored the bottom with some doodlebug yellow adhesive ribbon and a vertical pink rubon.  The page was completed with some kandcompany adhesive demensional flowers. 

A perfect sweet and simple reflection on these photos.

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Mikes Friday

Its official, the people at michaels officially  know me.

I go and shop every friday after class because it is just down the road.  I find that latley it is my favorite store to shop over acmoore and joanns.

I am really working on my ribbon collection because I always love a regal looking ribbon for less nowadays. I am also working on stocking up on essentials to add like background stamps like this large polka dot one from inkadinkado I got 40% off for 10$!  I have waited forever for this stamp

Fall florals are 60% off this week so I picked up a stem that i could ink and had fairly small buds.  For only .79 I should have stocked up on more.

Those tim holtz gears?  omg I could never live without, and I need that gear die from him so I can stop buying these, they really go with everything.

The metal bow is for a project for christmas.  Clearance yea!

Retro

These past few days have been a whirlwind of emotions for me.  The future has never made me so scared or nervous.  I honestly just want answers for what is to come.

Todays layout is a prime example of not having to put a single picture in the middle of your layout!

I cannot remember where this background paper is from but it is an obvious kraft color.  The whole starting point for this layout was the worded tag from some set.  I wanted a vintage retro feel and lovvedd this green retro paper from SEI that completely reminds me of some sort of wall paper.  The circle is cut from my olfa circle cutter that is now nearly dull from all the paper I have cut. It is positioned in the upper left because I usually seem to gravitate towards the bottom right. 

Simple accents enhance the vignette quality of the photo from an old photo studio. I adhered joules yellow flowers sparingly and stamped in some Michaels dollar stamps with tim holtz faded jeans which is a great color for blending into any sort of paper!  A making memories brad adds a metal feel and thats it!

Again a simple layout with minimal additions.

Family Matters.

  I want to thank all of you for voting for me in Cosmo Crickets design team member search, I cannot wait for the results!

Today I bring you another large image that I have scrapped.  I loved the vignetting given to this photo and tried to emulate the colors throughout. 

This is my mothers whole family.  I started with a neutral background of basic grey basics craft with small dots.   I centered it on the bottom, not the best design principal but lets the top stay airy.  I took some sales tags and inked them with tim holtz faded denim, vintage photo, and tea dye.  This creates a great border across any page, giving it a handmade look!

Mimicking those colors I took cosmo crickets wanted collection again and created a simple blue one inch border across the tags.  I then also took the schoolhouse matpad from krate paper to create about a two inch border of ledger paper and a place for the words to sit on. 

I chose this title because this is a rare photo of her entire family together, and now they all live across the country, so remembering family matters is always an important part.  These chip letters are from Girls Paperie, I am obsessed.

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Through The Years

Wow, can you say how much I have changed through the years?! I cannot exactly mark when all these pictures were taken, but they are all defiantly different.

It can make things a lot easier when using two of the same size photos in a layout.  This gives you a direction and formality when creating your layout.

I found that mixing two completely different patterns can look polished and more simple than expected.  Just be careful when choosing your patterns, you dont want two strong patterns none the less. 

Black and white background paper from Jenni Bowlin defiantly makes a bold statement but then is toned down by a simple blue and brown polka dot from Brenda Walton Chocolate Neapolitan stack. I stitched the two together to give a piecey homemade look, but it is still faint. Of course I had to refer to my ol' vintage dictionary paper, seems to always give me a finished look.  To make my single 4X6 stand out I popped it with a bright blue paper from Basic Grey's Lemonade mat pad, perfect brightness I must say.

To anchor your eye at the bottom of the page, and carry it throughout I used some k&company border pieces.  (grey piece, aqua swirly) The pack also came with a butterfly border, but was too over powering with everything else going on so I ended up cutting them up and have them flying around the page.

Since these photos are from random times throughout my life, the title "through the years" seemed of course fitting.  I kept them fairly simple aswell, almost fading into the background with Cloud 9 grey stickers and my favorite Cosmo Cricket tiny type in black. 

Overall a very simple layout, no inking, no cutting, no stamping!

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Capture Life

I find myself doing more one page layouts than anything these days.  I just find it easier to create around one picture rather than trying to match many different together.

This picture is of all us kids and my mother while we lived in Virginia.  I have hiked all my life and one of my favorite places to go is definatly the Shanedoah Valley.  The picture is one of the most favorite from our collection of family photos, and my mother always has a story to tell about it.

Background is a basic vintaged white paper and layered on top is a beautiful dot from October afternoon. To neutralize the dots I refereed back to ever great dictionary paper, a great way to add blocks of black and collage feel. I took beige strips of jenni bowlin paper and criss-crossed them and then stitched with olive green thread that almost gives a mountainous collage feel. The plaid card is also from October Afternoon, a great place for some journaling.

I had a hard time coming up with a title for this one, but the moment was so special to this photo that "capture life" was a great way to remember it.  The chipped letters with patterns come from 7 gypsies as also seen in my "a fathers passion" layout. The large letter mail letters are metal, and super sturdy from Making Memories. 

I love this eclectic feel of mountainy comfort. 

I thank all of you who have voted for me for Cosmo Crickets guest design team member.  I cannot say enough to all of you.
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Precious+

These pictures from my mom when she was younger are almost unrecognizable to me.  I must say i love those saddle shoes!

Background paper is from S.e.i. and the turquoise was perfect for the black jenni bowlin printed paper.  I just cut a free-handed large scallop a little over from the middle of the page and then adhered the two together.  Layer a vintage bingo sheet underneath as well as a cosmo cricket garden variety mat pad piece with fun bright flowers.  Placed the pictures on top but staggered so they both have their own time to shine, and included some mikes dollar yellow paper flowers.  Precious as the title is basic grey letter stickers.  

I love the fun scallop can bring to a layering effect and a great new way to anchor you paper, no matter what corner you choose!  A simple way to create a layout: layer different patterns and colors for a fun eclectic look!

emily

Boys

What a fun twist I created with this layout.  These pictures are of my mothers family before she was born. (yes she had 4 brothers!) 

Background paper has a fun orange red hue from S.E. I matpad.  I took the Jenni Bowlin black and beige paper and cut out a major section from the patter probably around 4 inches. I then sprayed a few spritzes of ink (the ones from mikes)  and I love the effect of the spray look!  I took a swirl stamp that I have repeated a few times around the copper tim holtz token, and then gold embossed (my fave!)  I layer the dot paper from the cosmo cricket wanted collection that played up the background color.  Cosmo cricket chip letters in a plaid spell out the word BOY for the title.

I love the unexpected color combination and vintage fun look given.

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emily

Giggle

Oh for the love of Cosmo Cricket! This of course is a super simple layout with an attention to small detail.

This photo is of myself (middle) and my siblings probably the year of 93?  I have to say how much i love my expression of loving the stuffed animals too hard! how funny, which is how I got the tittle for this page; giggle.  A title does not have to be a whole phrase or quote but one simple word can sometimes say it all.

Background paper is from cosmo crickets joy ride collection, I love how eccentric the dots are.  To play off of that I layered with the cosmo crickets garden variety collection (absolute fave for bright graphic prints).  The top layered piece is punched with a fiskars wave border punch and the leftover piece anchors the bottom of the photo.  I decided to incorporate a red grosgrain ribbon across the top to bring everything together.  The big bold statement it makes is great.

To keep with the "fun" theme I chose to use k&company bottle cap brads with fun motifs like beach balls.  I finished the page with my "giggle" with some making memories chip letters with a cool plaid motif.

Simple Joy

This was the very first layout I created for my mothers birthday scrapbook.  I had just purchased some new products and defiantly wanted to experiment with them!

Fabric and paper combination was defiantly a new mix for me.

The border and flag banner is fabric scraps from my bedroom redo.  My new bedroom at home is going to be a southern vintage feel.  I will definatly post pics when we get through with the redo!

Inspiration came from all of the million dear lizzy papers and numerous flag banners you always see.

The background is an old script paper with pink writing.  It was too fakey white for the look I wanted to achieve so instead I inked it with tim holtz vintage photo and ended up over inking it in some places. To lay a somewhat plain surface I selected some vintage music sheet paper to lay across the somewhat over inked background. This is when I then sewed on my banner and strip of fabric with white thread.

This picture is of myself and my mother and its so great how innocent I once looked. lol.  I felt like highlighting some of these colors seemed like the best bet in this situation.  The awkward 90's brights was not of choice so instead I chose a sheet from the basic grey lemonade 6x6 stack.  Off centering it still gives the emphasis to my photo, which is what you always want. 

For embelishments I die-cutted a tim holtz alterations flower from k&company mat pad for baby girls.  I assembled it with a silver heart brad from making memories and popped it up on foam dimensionals. 

As for the title, I have certainly learned your layout can look entirely more polished when you use more than one type of font.  The simple is chipboard from k&company, and the joy is heidi grace stickers.  I felt this title was fitting for how its a quiet moment of youth for me, and how simple the time was with my mom.

Hope you enjoy,

Emily

A Fathers Passion.

The original photo was not nearly this large I believe, though I am happy to say my sister blew it up and it looks fabulous!  This is my Grandfather, a man I was never able to meet but i never stop thinking about him and his legacy.  He was a photographer for the army in the Vietnam and Korean wars. He also had his own darkroom that he built in my mothers house growing up.  How neat to have met him and learned about his photography journeys.  I think this is where my love of the arts comes from, and I am sure to have a passion for it just as my sister loves photography.

I wanted to give this layout a real antiqued feel because he is developing old photographs in the picture.  Since it is such a large picture and is heavily viewer involved i felt it ddid not need a whole lot of fluff or collaging.

I love this background paper with the distressed tim holtz feel.  Its hard to find a good black distressed paper.  Cosmo cricket's wanted 6x6 pad is really the star of this layout.  As you all may know I have been slightly obsessed with creating with this stack.  The striped bands are two pieces cut in half to create a 3 inch border, a really great way to save cutting up a 12x12.   I took a different dotted turquoise paper from the same deck and punched out 1 inch scallop circles.  I ran adhesive along the backside and placed the circles next to each other to create a scalloped border on the ends of the photo. Kristina Werner definitely influenced this one. Now the photo is almost framed vertically and horizontally.

To weight the bottom of the photo I placed a small basic grey basics border piece.

The title speaks for itself in showing that this was his passion.  The small little epoxy letters are k&company while the large chip letters that fit the same vintage element are from 7 gypsies.

This is where to start.

Wow talk about another favorite of mine for the moment. I really LOVE how this turned out.

This photo shows how young my parents were! lol  This is of them with my brother while living in California.  The angelic qualities to this photo really said it all for me.

I usually hate placing single photos within the center of my layout as it is a center composition which is unpleasing.  This kind of gives a twist on your general layout. I placed my photo with photocorners to preserve the original photo, very easy step.

This turquoise blue color background really caught my eye and is very striking.  I layered it with a Jenni Bowlin top note cutout to give it some emphasis. To update this fairly plain shape i took a piece of music sheet and traced it along the shape and then narrowed it so it could texture the background but only on the half without the picture. I saw this in a magazine and love how much it can change your inital shape!  I also had fun playing with different font stickers which just enhances the playfulness and graphic qualities yet updating it from the vintage music sheet they lay on.

I took some Krate Paper paper from their new schoolhouse deck and of course had to include my favorite thing; ledger.  This really helped with the linear elements to balance the page.  Fun embellishments like a tim holtz key hole, and making memories metal pieces gave the page a completed look. I had to of course incorporate a basic grey basics piece, the beautiful kraft border sticker. 

letter stickers: making memories, colorbok, basic grey

Graduation Day

I certainly beam when I view this layout. This is from my mothers graduation of college over twenty years ago. It took her nearly 10 years to get her degree but it was sure a great moment when she did.

I decided to use a quote for this page rather than just a title. "the future belongs to those who believe in the power of their dreams" eleanor roosevelt. This quote was certainly perfect for this situation because even after having two children... she accomplished her dreams.

I love the use of layering these two pattern papers but while still incorporating her school colors. The scallops are easy to buy border strips that are quick and easy for every page. I of course had to add some black stitching to give that next layer of texture. My favorite part is probably the "future, and dream" that i gold embossed to give a regal accomplished look.

Products:

background: basic grey basics manilla
black letter stickers: cosmo cricket tiny type black
letter stamps: KI memories
red type paper: jenni bowlin

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