Hello Travel Layout

I am finally on my last layout of pictures from Neuschwanstein Castle. It's such a gorgeous location that I took a ton of photos. It feels nice to be finishing up the section with this Hello Travel Layout.

I love getting to actually be in some of the photos we take when traveling. I especially love that we can take photos together without having to ask someone to take one for us. Such a change from when we started traveling together years and years ago!

This is another one of those layouts where I went back, back into my stash with We R Memory Keepers Wildflower collection mixed with other random embellishments from my stash.

Time to close this section of the Germany album and move on to the next!

Favorite Adventure Travel Layout

I'm continuing to work through some travel scrapbooking while also working through my stash. Today I have a Favorite Adventure Travel Layout to share.

I tend to have a lot of photos to scrap for travel layouts, so I do a lot of multi photo layouts. To make them fit on the layout and still have space for embellishments and journaling, I like to print my photos at 3 x 5 instead of the standard 4 x 6.

The paper on this layout is from an old We R Memory Keepers collection called Wildflower. I am trying so hard to get through my stash before buying anything new. I've purged a lot of papers, but still have a number of old collections stashed.

Old collections can get some new life when you add in embellishments from other collections. I've also found that I tend to put papers from a collection together in a different way when I put them away for a while.

Do you like to work through your stash, or would you prefer all new papers all the time?

Kickoff Cookout Scrapbooking Layout

It's July, which means there's a new kit from the Scrapbooking Store. I'll have a few layouts over on their social media, but today I wanted to share this Kickoff Cookout Scrapbooking layout with you. It features both the main kit and the upgrades.

The kit features Echo Park's Best Summer Ever collection. It is bright, fun, and full of summer prints and icons like ice cream, water balloons, bathing suits, sunglasses, and so much more.

Don't let this kit fool you, though, you don't have to use it to just scrap summer photos. This photo is of a fall cookout, but the prints and embellishments still work perfectly.

The upgrade portion of the kit includes diecuts (some of which have glitter!), chipboard shapes, and some amazing shaped enamels.

If you're looking for a bright and sunshiny kit, the Scrapbooking Store's July kit will not disappoint!

I wrote this post while participating on the Scrapbooking Store Design Team

At 11 Layout

If you saw my "At 13" layout about my oldest, this is its counterpart. This is my youngest At 11 layout.

I used up what was left of my stash of My Mind's Eye Happy Camper paper for this layout. I still have a ton of embellishments left, so those may be popping up on a future layout.

Due to some health issues (that we have much more under control now), 11 was not the best year for this kiddo. I don't gloss over that on these layouts, but I do like to focus on who they are and what they love when I journal about who they are at a specific age.

He turned 12 recently, so it felt a bit cathartic to put 11 behind us "in the book" so to speak. We're thankful that 12 seems to be shaping up to be a much better year health wise.

These years are so important and I love seeing how their interest grow and change.

2 Page Bridge Layout

I set myself the goal of having our Germany trip scrapped after a year...we'll I'm way behind on that, but I'm still plugging along a page at a time. Today it's actually a 2 page bridge layout, so I'm hoping that counts as 2 pages.

There's some pretty fantastic scenery in Germany, especially the Bavaria region.

I used Pinkfresh Studio Out and About papers and embellishments for this layout. The mountain topography paper was a great background for these photos taken in the mountains. Since the multi-color stripes are pretty bold, I offset them with the white script paper.

I finished up with a few clusters of embellishments like die cuts, tags, enamel dots, and 3D stickers to complete my 2 page bridge layout.

At 13 Layout

Every year I take my boys' photos and then scrap one of the photos. I use that layout to tell all about who they are at that age. Today, I have my oldest's At 13 Layout.

I am continuing to try to work through my stash before I buy any new paper. I uncovered this older collection from My Mind's Eye called Happy Camper. I have my wall of paper in my craft room sorted a few different ways. What I had left of this collection was hiding out with a bunch of camping themed papers.

I love the different shades of blue, and thought they set the photo off nicely.

I cut a journaling card from a piece of wood grain paper in the collection. I used chipboard and diecut embellishments from the collection, and then did some stash diving for a few extra embellishments (like some of the word stickers and the arrow die cut framing the picture).

13 has been a pretty great age for this kid! 

Star Scrapbooking Layout

It's June, which means there's a new kit over at the Scrapbooking Store. I'll be sharing a few layouts over on their social media this month, but I wanted to keep this one for my blog. To introduce you to this month's kit I have a Star Scrapbooking Layout.

June's kit features papers from 2 different Authentique collections. The collections have a patriotic and nautical feel. The base kit includes 12 patterned papers and a full size matching sticker sheet.

For the embellishments on this layout, I used stickers from the base kit and die cuts and foil stars from the upgrade kit. There are glitter Thicker Stickers included in the upgrade kit as well that I didn't use on this layout.

Make sure to follow the Scrapbooking Store on Facebook for lots of layout and card inspiration using June's kit!

I wrote this post while participating on the Scrapbooking Store Design Team.