Reader's Page + Bonus!

Hi all! This is a reader's page by Kayla DuPont!! It is such a fabulous example of the flower template from a few weeks ago! I love how she flipped the photos to bottom, what a totally cool idea! You can see more of her work here at her blog.





Here is layout by contributing artist, Julie Howard!! I love how she used the leaf photoblock template for her photos. I especially like the photo in the middle with the tag, it looks so good! Plus she used the great big leaf! :)




Would you like to have you page posted here?? Work with one of my templates on the right hand side and I will feature you page! Just email your image to scrappingpam73@yahoo.com .
Have a great weekend!

Winner of Journaling Challenge!

Congrats to Darlene S. (aka - yadee87) who created this is AMAZING layout for the "thankful" journaling challenge! This is a beautiful example of a being thankful and documenting it!


I asked for more information on this page to learn the story behind it:
This layout was made for a very special day, my husbands homecoming from a nearly 12 month deployment! I was so thankful to have him back and I thank God he, and all the people in his unit, came home safe!

I used about 7 patterned papers and used up a few flowers and other embellishments from my stash. I like to keep my colors down to 1 or 2 main and 1 accent, here the main colors were green and tan, and the small touches of white embellishment bring it more together. I distressed all of my edges with my nails(!) and mini inks.

I inked and sanded the letters in the title and I thought the effect the lace behind the title made it stand out so much more, and added so much more interest.

Here is her gallery at sb.com! thanks for everyone who made pages for the challenge!

I will be announcing a new contest in a week or so, so stay tuned!!!

Three Layouts to Inspire You!

These are 3 recent pages of mine. I wanted to show examples of using one of Pam's template, how to use a hand made template, and a layout with no template at all.

(this is the modified leaf template by Pam)

Here is the digital layered template for Photoshop:
http://www.4shared.com/file/186299302/a233c959/pc_c_template.html

Title: ABC

Text: Library time....one of your most favorite things. So much so, that you typically go at least once a week. This particular day was the annual pumpkin palooza. They had apples & cider, face painting, and pumpkin decorating. But you didn't need the special event as a reason to visit the library. You just love books. Ever since you were a baby you enjoyed books and being read to. I love reading & I love books also. I hope this is something we will share together for many years to come.

Description: This came from the photo block section of Pam's leaf template layout. I knew I wanted to use some recent library visit photos, and when I saw this photo block, I really loved it. But in keeping with the library/reading theme of the page, instead of the square corners, I rounded them to form the letter "C" in which to showcase the photographs. I found some paper with die cut apples along the top, and since some of the photos from the library included my son eating an apple from the event that day, I thought this paper would be perfect. I wanted the focus of the page to be the "C" photos, and the apple-top paper, so the rest of the layout is very basic. Just an smaller sized "A" and "B" creating the ABC title, some journaling, and minimum embellishments. I love that Pam's layouts can be used as presented, but also with minor alterations, can be used for many others layouts as well.

Title: Feeling You Grow

Text: I used to love when you moved around in my belly. I never minded the kicks or the discomfort, as I knew that those kicks and punches were God's way of allowing me to feel you grow.

Description: I had been toying with this idea for a while in my mind (using a pregnant silhouette to showcase sonogram photos), and finally decided to try in on paper. I made the template first. I drew a small outline of a pregnant woman and played around with it until I liked the way it looked. Then I photocopied and blew it up until it was larger enough to fill a 12 x 12 page. Them I traced it out cut it out in black. Since the silhouette and the photos are the main focus, again the rest of my page is very minimal. Just my title, some embellishments, with the journaling around the edge.

Title: You MONOPOLYze my Heart

Description: I am always looking for ways to use multiple photos on layouts and thought a Monopoly board would be a great idea. The monopoly money I used was just color photocopies from internet images (as I don't actually own a Monopoly board). The cut out shapes were all made with the Cricut. The MONOPOLYze title was cut using the Monopoly font, but I used 3 layers (1 black for shadow and 2 white) to give it additional dimension. With these 3 layouts I mainly wanted to show that you can find inspiration anywhere, even the most common things, and still makes it original and yours.

With these 3 layouts I mainly wanted to show that you can find inspiration anywhere, even the most common things, and still makes it original and yours.

Introducing Our Featured Artist for Dec. 4th!

Ok, I am so excited to announce our featured artist today!!! Can you tell? A few weeks ago someone sent me these AMAZING layouts featuring my templates! Seriously cool stuff! I asked her to be a featured artist and I was delighted when she accepted! I totally love her style! You are going to love her gallery! Her name is Cindy and now it's time to get to know her!

My name is Cindy Childress and I live in the beautiful State of Maryland. I am in my early 40's, and was a late in life Mom (we were almost 40 and 44 years old at the time). My son Thomas Jacob (TJ) is 3 years old, and really has become the added light in our lives. I think becoming a first time Mom at an older age made me appreciate parenthood much more than I would have in my 20's, and probably even my 30's. Those feelings of gratefulness and appreciation led me to scrapbooking, as I wanted to document not just my photos, but the actual memories of the time. I started scapbooking when my son was about 1 year old, and have been addicted ever since. In the roughly 2 1/2 years since I started scrapbooking, I have come to really enjoy the entire process, from taking the photos, to creating a page, to seeing the finished result, to sharing it with others. I just began posting my pages online this month, so Pam asking me to be a guest artist was wonderful, as I have been a fan of her work since I first began. Thank you for looking.

You can view her gallery here, so be sure to check out all of the fabulous pages! You will love her next post! So be sure to check back to see some great inspiration! Thanks for letting me feature you Cindy!

Christmas Tree Template Example

Wow, time really does fly because tomorrow's already Friday! By the time we know it, it's going to be Christmas week. Anyway, I wanted to share some Christmas inspiration with all of you. Remember that Christmas tree template we shared with all of you? Well, if not, it can be found here(highlight "here" and insert the link for that template).

I decided to use that template for a Christmas photo that was taken many many years ago. Here's what I came up with:



So, what do you think?! Cute, right?! :)

If you use this template, send it over to Pam, and we'd LOVE to feature your page on the blog.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Hugs!

Get dimension with your Photos…

Add dimension to your pages with your photos. This technique will add so much to the visual effect of your layouts and use up some of those photos you have with lots of background showing.

I placed pop dots on the back of a 4 X 6 photo and centered it on top of a 5 X 7 of the same photo. I chose a pattern paper with swirls and flowers that I cut out and layered around and under the photos for more depth.
I really liked the finished effect…Be sure to use photos with lots of open background showing.

Leaf Template Tutorial

I wanted to try one of Pam’s templates, and this template with the leaf for journaling was perfect for the cute photos that I took recently of my grandchildren, Katie and Adam. As you can tell, I didn’t follow the template exactly, but used it as a guide for my layout.



First, I printed the template out on 12x12 paper with a large format printer. You can also print on 8.5x11 and piece the template together. This gave me a pattern to use for my large leaf. The small leaves were punched from some paper that I created just for the leaves.

I used several different “Fall” colored inks and my Tim Holtz foam pads for blending the inks. For this example I used inks in mustard seed (yellow), spiced marmalade (orange), Prussian blue, and fire brick (red). With the foam pad, I rubbed the each ink on plain white cardstock, using a circular motion. Just add the different inks right on top of each other. Continue blending using different colors until you get the look you want.
The Prussian blue might seem a little odd, but when mixed with the yellow, you get a very nice green color.


Once you get the look you want, use a large leaf punch or use the small leaf on the template as a pattern to trace on the back of the cardstock and then cut them out. The beauty of this method is that when you punch or cut your leaves, no two leaves will be the same color.


You might have noticed that I included a small “cat-eye” inker in the first picture. That is a copper color ink. After I punch the leaves out, I just rubbed the edges with the copper ink. The copper is really a nice finishing touch.

I hope you’ll try one of Pam’s templates. It really speeds up the process when you know what your design will be.

Papers used in this layout are from Deja Views – Global views.