Scrapbooking Global blog Hop - Combo Layout with Pocket Page

Welcome to the July 2024 Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop!  

Our theme of Combo Layout With A Pocket Page was chosen be Kate Gardiner.

There are so many reasons to include a  pocket on your page and so many ways to add a pocket.  I added a 3-tier pocket to this page because I took over 40 pictures at this interesting place.  I have 5 photos in each pocket so with the 7 photos on the page I have almost half of the  photos here.  I'll do another layout with more pockets for the remaining photos.

The layout really didn't photograph well.  There are so many little buildings in so many pictures!  I pulled out that beautiful Peach Pie DSP from the Unbounded Beauty paper pack for this one.  I also used the dies from the Unbounded Love die set.  With so many photos I didn't need  much embellishments, just a few Blooming Pearls on each page.

Here is the pocket I designed for my 3-tier pocket. It measures 13 1/2x 8 1/2 so obviously you will need to piece one of the panels in to make it wide enough. I made the pockets 4 1/2" wide so the 4" wide photos would fit in them. There isn't a lot of wiggle room so you will need to use a very thin line of glue to hold the edges.  Or make each panel a bit more than 4 1/2" wide.

Here are 2 pictures of just the pocket. One is without anything in the pockets so you can better tell how it is made. 

I couldn't decide which color to make the title but I remembered I had 2 pictures taken from slightly different angles so I cut the letters with the Alphabet a La Mode dies from the extra photo. It blends in with the photos nicely, I think.

I hope you will find plenty of inspiration on the blog hop this month and will be adding pockets to your pages to hold all kinds of things soon!

Now you can go to the beginning of the hop list and visit Julia Quinn's blog by clicking on her link below. She has an amazing style and I know you will love what she has created! She has a completely different way to add lots of photos with a very different kind of pockets.

https://www.handmadebyjuliaquinn.com/2024/07/combo-layout-for-scrapbooking-check-it.html

Oh rats!  I tried several different ways and I can't get Julia's blog link to be clickable. Until I get someone to straighten me out just cut and paste the link into your browser. Me and technology sometimes don't get along!

Use Your Scraps

 

I'm excited to be the guest designer for this month's Scrapbooking Global - Stampin' Up Blog Hop!

I thought of many things for a theme but decided that I have soooooooo many scraps that I would chose that as my theme. I hate to throw away scraps so they build up into boxes full of scraps! Sometimes I donate them to schools and kid's groups who can use them. But mostly they sit around taking up space. 😊

This month's layout features paper and dies from last month's layout.  I also did a shoebox swap last  month that used the paper so I had lots of scraps.  I put them together for a scrappy scrapbook layout!  

This is the card I made for the shoebox swap. I love the Country Woods Designer Series Paper and the Unbounded Love dies!  So I used them again this month.

I started with a base of one of the Designer Papers from the Unbounded Love paper.  Then I layered a bunch of scraps from the Country Woods DSP over it.  

I cut out bunches of the leaves and flowers out of matching scraps of cardstocks and made several little flower arrangements with them.  I placed a cutout of little floral bouquets I cut from one of the Unbounded Love DSP.

The title is cut with the Alphabet A' la Mode dies and embellished with 3 of the Rainbow Adhesive-Backed Dots.

I hope the blog hop this month gets you thinking about digging out some of your scraps to make scrapbook pages and cards!

Next up is Julia Quinn, she always has such great pages, I know you will love her use of scraps too!  She just may have used the same paper I did!

1. Julia Quinn - Handmade by Julia Quinn (Australia)

2. Caz Hurst - Happy Crafter - New Zealand

3. Sharon Dalton - CreativeMe68 (Australia)

4. Cheryl Taylor - Stampin n crafting with Cheryldiana - UK

5. Margaret Workman - Crafty Chemist Designs Sketch 24 Scrapbook Layout

6. Frances Ames - Take to the Sky Layout - A History to Remember

7. Elaine Wright, I Reckon I'll Stamp, USA

My 3 Favorite Colors

This month the blog hop challenge is to make a layout with your 3 favorite Stampin' Up colors. No easy task to decide! The challenge was chosen by a guest designer, Alison Carter.

I love so many of our beautiful colors!  I finally decided to choose a color from each color family and one from all of the In Colors and then narrow that down to 3. Green has long been my favorite color so Granny Apple Green was one of my choices. And I was so excited about Pretty In Pink coming back that I chose that from the InColors. Misty Moonlight, Lost Lagoon and Pretty Peacock rounded out the 5 choices.

I kept thinking about this stripped paper in the Country Woods DSP though. I really wanted to use it but the only color in my stack that matched it was the Misty Moonlight. I could easily switch Pretty In Pink to Petal Pink and Lost Lagoon to Pool Party though. 

I ended up only using a 2 1/4" strip of that amazing DSP across the bottom of my pages but I think it is a great touch to the layout.  I used another sheet of a wood print that is Misty Moonlight and bordered the entire page with a 12X12 sheet of Misty Moonlight cardstock.  Of course, I cut out the middle of the cardstock to use as photo mats, I couldn't waste that much paper!

I had recently ordered the Unbounded Love dies and stamp set.  The dies are mostly labels but there are also these great leaves and flowers so I cut them out and scattered them across the bottom borders of the pages.  

There is a great piece of DSP that has a Pool Party sanded off look to it.  My page kept telling me it needed a bit of that paper on it.  (Do your pages tell you things too?)  After cutting the title I knew where the paper needed to be.

The pictures are of our oldest daughter when we lived in San Antonio, Texas. They sure bring back memories! 

To continue on with the blog hop, click on the next name on the list. Margaret Workman has chosen a triadic color combination from the newest InColors. 

https://periodicallycrafty.blogspot.com/2024/05/scrapbooking-global-blog-hop-may-2024.html

Scrapbooking Global Sketch Challenge

Happy Spring!  (if you are in the Northern hemisphere anyway)  This month our blog hop will be inspired by a sketch.  I love using sketches to help create my layouts.  That means I have to think a little less, which is always a good thing!

Our sketch was chosen by a guest designer, Margaret.  I love the versatility of this sketch!  It was pretty easy to make my photos fit the sketch.

Here is the great sketch, isn't it a fun one?

This is the layout I made with the sketch.  Of course, I didn't get it finished until dark and the color doesn't film well without the natural light coming in the windows.  You can barely see the stamped borders of branches from the Perched In  A Tree stamp set, along with the little dots from another stamp in that set that I used to add a little texture to the layout.  The DSP is the beautiful Countryside Inn paper.  For fun I used 2 alphabet sets, the Mini Alphabet dies an the Alphabet A La Mode dies.  As always, I feel like it needs something more but I just haven't figured that out yet.  If you have an idea, please post it in the comments so I can try it!

Thanks for stopping by for a while.  Have fun seeing the rest of the layouts with the sketch!  Next you get to see what Sharon Dalton from Australia

has come up with.

1. Sharon Dalton - CreativeMe68 (Australia)

2. Jo Blackman (UK)

3. Michelle Johns - Crafters Northwest

4. Danielle Wagner - DanYellScraps

5. Tania Brown

6. Rochelle Laird-Smith - Stamping Flair (Australia)

7. Cheryl Taylor - Stampin n crafting with Cheryldiana - UK

8. Sherry Roth - Stamped Treasures - Canada

9. Caz Hurst - Happy Crafter - New Zealand

10. Julia Quinn - Handmade by Julia Quinn (Australia)

11. Elaine Wright, I Reckon I'll Stamp, USA

March Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop

Welcome to the March edition of our scrapbooking blog hop.  Thank you so much for stopping by my blog.  I hope you will enjoy my layout.

Our blog hop theme this month was chosen by a guest designer, Lisa Stucker. She chose the theme, Celebrating Hobbies. 

When I saw the theme I knew exactly what my layout needed to be about!  My favorite hobby, the one I spend the most time doing and enjoy the most is hands down, scrapbooking!  I also enjoy gardening and sewing and lots of other things.  I'm working on a layout with the pumpkins I grew last year.  Maybe I'll get it finished now that I have the pictures printed.

I looked at the pictures I have of my stamping and scrapbooking adventures and knew I wanted green and blue to be in the paper.  I looked through all my current papers and couldn't find just the right thing.  I decided I would have to make my own DSP!  As I was working on the February Paper Pumpkin kit I decided to use some of the parts on my layout because the green was just right.  Then I looked at the stamps that came with the kit - my very favorite flower, the buttercup (also known as the daffodil) was one of the stamps!  How fun, I turned it into the background paper by stamping them all over white cardstock then coloring them with the Stampin' Blends.

Here is a picture of the "bones" of my layout.  Whenever I cover up most of the base of my layouts I cut the inside of it out and have an inch wide 12" frame.  I layered this onto a piece of discontinued Sahara Sand cardstock.  Since you won't see this piece it doesn't really matter what color it is.  I also used some of the card pieces from the Feb Paper Pumpkin kit, I even cut the cute gingham from some of the envelopes!  I don't know why the green in the little pieces on the lower right loo so washed out.  It's actually the same color green as the gingham. 

After I stamped and colored the buttercups (notice in my "bones" picture I didn't color the flowers under the pictures.  As much as I could use the practice in coloring with the blends I decided to save ink and time and just color the ones that could be seen.  After I got them colored I decided there needed to be a touch of blue so I got the speckled background stamp from the Perched in a Tree stamp set and stamped between the bunches of buttercups.  It was just the touch my homemade DSP needed!

After getting everything placed for the background of my layout I added pictures of scrapbook crops and stamping events.  I added simple journaling by printing on die labels cut with one of the Labels Aglow dies and popped them up on each picture with dimentionals. I tried different colors for the title with the fun Alphabet A la mode dies and the Mini Alphabet dies and decided on Daffodil Delight.  The layout looked like it needed something on the green gingham at the bottom.  I decided to sleep on it but hadn't come up with the perfect thing until I decided to work on the cards left in the Feb kit after I raided all those pieces.  Then I saw all the buttercup punch outs that were supposed to be on one set of the cards.  I think there were 5 for each card so I used 2 instead so I could have the rest to add the finishing touch to the layout.  Perfect!

Are you wondering how I managed to make cards with the 1 leftover card base I
had left for what was to be 3 cards.  It was supposed to be a smaller sized card and the envelopes with the green gingham matched the size.   I cut the card in half and used the insides of one of the envelopes for the background of the 3rd card.  I made them all to be a standard size card and they will all have to have a boring white envelope.  I'll have to get that buttercup stamp back out and stamp on the envelopes, won't I! 

Thanks for stopping by to visit my blog!  Be sure to check out the creations of other Stampin' Up Demonstrators who have joined the blog hop this month.

Next is the amazing Courtenay Heuston from Australia. Family History is her hobby. That is another one of my hobbies as well!

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Men In Your Life January Blog Hop

It's 2024! I can't believe that January is more than half over already! We got our first snowfall of the winter Sunday and Monday, 3 inches of snow. We are expecting another inch of snow tomorrow. And it has been so COLD! I'm not a fan of winter, I get cold so easily. 

 Days like these have been perfect weather to scrapbook though!  Any excuse, right?

Tina Parsons picked out theme for this month, Men In Your Life. I've been needing to do these pages since 2019 so I appreciate the motivation.

I ordered this Trusty Toolbox DSP as a free Sale A Bration gift. It is perfect for my layout. I used a Very Vanilla 12x12 base and a little Lost Lagoon for the top of the page where I put my title and journaling. The ruler paper made a nice touch at the top and I cut some of the tools out and raised them on Stampin' Dimentionals to give them emphasis.

You really need a pack of this paper, don't you?

Now, go to the next blog in the hop, hopefully I can get the link right. For some reason I always have trouble with this. Julia Quinn from Queensland Australia

https://www.handmadebyjuliaquinn.com

Traditional Christmas Layout

 

I am participating in the December Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop!  Thanks for visiting my blog. The theme for this month is "Traditional Christmas. "

As you can tell, these pictures were taken a few years back. 1970 to be exact!  Good gravy, I can't believe they are over 50 years old!  I need to see about getting them restored some so they are more clear. 

Here is the layout before adding a 1/2" strip of DSP at the top and bottom. Doesn't it make a big difference in the appearance of the layout? Im glad I thought of doing that! 

I started with a Garden Green base and stamped it in Garden Green using stamps from the Timeless Arrangements set. The banner pieces are made with the Walk In The Forest DSP. I pulled the Old Olive color from the DSP to cut the accents around the pictures with the Christmas Classics Dies. I also used the dies for the wreath. With a combination of white bakers twine and silver trim I wrapped the bottom of each banner piece, as well as the journaling box. After assembling the page and adding lots of Real Red Faceted Gems and some In Color Dots I was feeling it needed something else. It was just too green! Nothing against green, it's my favorite color, but I decided a pop of red would brighten it up some. 

I cut just the berries with the Christmas Classics dies and added them here and there and matted the journal box in Real Red as well, just the touch it needed, along with the strips of DSP at the top and bottom.

I enjoyed remembering that Christmas from so long ago as I created this layout. Merry Christmas  everyone!

Next up is Sharon, she got creative with some fun techniques this month. 

https://studioshabazcreativeme68.blogspot.com

Sketch Challenge with Night Divine Bundle

Hi, welcome to my blog! The Scrapbooking Global blog hop for August is using a sketch that I really liked.  I also got my pre-order from the Sept-Dec Mini catalog and loved the Night Divine bundle items.  I had some pictures from a few Christmas' ago that needed to be scrapbooked so I decided to use the bundle even though it is only August.  The Design challenge was chosen by Sharni Haines. 

She picked this very cool sketch.

Sketches make designing a layout so much easier!  I rotated this layout and took a few liberties with it so I could make a double page layout with 5 photos. I like the sketch so much I think I will design another layout without rotating it and using different paper, stamps and embellishments.

Isn't the "O Holy Night" Designer Series Paper beautiful?  It made creating this layout so much easier.  It has 12 sheets of 12X12 paper, 2 designs on each sheet. It is gorgeous paper! I used Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Copper Clay and Pebbled Path cardstock for the animals and other page elements. 

I love the idea of stitching on a layout and I haven't done it in a few years so I got out my sewing machine and stitched away on the trim across the middle of the pages.  To add more texture I couldn't resist adding die cuts from the Share A Milkshake set.  I cut them from Crumb Cake so they wouldn't be too distracting but just add a bit more texture.  I also die cut extra animals from the Night Divine dies to embellish the page.  

The title was from the stamp set in the bundle.  It is all word stamps and they are beautifully designed.  I trimmed own the stable and just used the roof part over the stamped title that I cut out with the largest of the Scalloped Contours dies. 

 I also used the scalloped border die to stitch to the ribbon.  Don't you love both of the ribbons I used on the page?  They are from the Copper and Natural Ribbon Pack, another item in the new mini catalog.

The small journaling strips below the pictures are from the Labels Aglow dies.  I used a LOT of dies on this layout, didn't I?

Every year we have a Festival of the Nativity event at our church and the Night Divine bundle was perfect for the pictures I took.  I actually took lots more pictures so I need to get busy on more nativity layouts!

Thanks for stopping by my blog.  Click below to go to the next blog.  Because I'm not that good with technology you may have to click on this link to go to the next blog in the blog hop. Or copy and paste it into your browser . . .

https://www.sharnihaines.com/post/scrapbooking-global-blog-hop-august-2023-sketch