Birthday Girl!

I think I do a good a pretty good job of keeping up with our children's birthday layouts, but this particular year had slipped by.  Probably because at first glance, I didn't have many good traditional looking birthday photos.

I decided to just go with what I did have and combine her birthday skating event photos with the actual birthday cake photo.  Here's what I came up with.

Did you guess I love banners? I know they are everywhere in the scrapbook world and in home decor, but I haven't tired of them yet!  They are just so happy and they just seem to scream "It's a celebration!" 

I did want to try and give a twist to the birthday celebration stand-by.  Here are a close up.

You can see that I created the banner to be varied and quite random, but squished together.  The stitching on the top gives a nod to the traditional banner.

For the journaling, I thought it be fun to make it look like it was typed on a piece of vellum.  Staggering the lines really add to the randomness of an old typewriter.

So, here's to girls and their birthdays!!! They are definitely something to celebrate!

Supplies: Patterned Papers: GCD Studios Flower Child and Bonjour. Letters: October Afternoon & Amy Tangerine for American Crafts. Stamps: Birthday, "E" and Circle- Studio G, Date Stamp- Office Depot, Brads: Basic Grey.

Photo challenge

Happy Summer everybody! I'm sharing a totally fun, make you smile page today.

The challenge from GCD Studios this time, was to create a page inspired by this photo.

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I knew I was totally up for this challenge because I had a silly photo of my daughter and her friends looking very much like super heroes.

I interpreted the image pretty literally. I just changed the wording to fit what they were doing.

While most of my scrapbook pages are usually pretty heartfelt or documentary, I love throwing a little humor into the mix.  I knew I was on track when my son looked at the completed page, cracked a huge smile and let out a little chuckle.

Here are a few close ups.

Here's a good tip I can share.  The stickers for the "ready, aim" above are actually the same as the "it's the" below.  I tried the light teal stickers on the yellow and it just didn't have the pop I was looking for.  So I placed them on my non-stick matte and inked them with black ink.  Super easy solution!

I hope this inspires you to scrapbook those "silly" photos you've got in your stash.  I know they are going to be cherished even more than the perfectly posed shots.  Everyone loves a page that makes them smile or even chuckle. :)

Supplies: Patterned Papers: GCD Studios Splendor Line, Letters: Basic Grey, American Crafts, Stamps: Arrow-Studio Calico, Date-Heidi Swapp, Die Cut Machine: Slice.