On a roll with my scrapping! Although I did have to walk away from this one yesterday. My mojo went away mid-page and I've learned not to force it. Walk away and come back later and hopefully the mojo has returned and it had this morning. Once I sat down and started playing with the different elements, it came together really quickly.
Jan sent this pic of the kids in my Mother's Day card. She took it when they were on Spring Break in St Augustine. Jan, Kathy and I were about the same age as Jake and Joy when we first went to St Augustine, so hopefully they will have some of the same memories that we do.
I used CTMH Footloose paper pack for this layout. The chipboard are more hoarded Deluxe Designs (and they aren't even in business any more!) that I used CTMH inks and sponged on the colors. The title uses the CTMH Newsprint Rub-Ons and I went around them with my Broken China Distress Marker to make them pop just a bit.
I decided I needed to get back to scrapping those pics of John's we found when we were cleaning closets before the holidays last year. This is the first, in what I hope will be many more to come!
John thinks he was 4 or 5 in these pics. He got to go spend a couple of weeks with his dad's folks in PA and Grandfather started teaching him about guns. He said he remembers the shotgun knocking him out of the back tof the truck when it went off. AND he missed the turkey he was shooting at!
The background cs is Creative Impressions and it has a resist on it, so I used my Vintage Photo Distress Ink and covered it. The circles cs is from the CTMH Dotty For You collection. I used a now retired CTMH stamp set called Stitched Together for the faux stitching around the edge of the circle cs and the stars. The conchos are long retired from CTMH. So I'm using some of my HOARDED (Anna!) stash!!! I think it still needs something under the "guys" title, which is CTMH retired Irresistables Eclectic Alphabet, so I'm thinking I may journal a bit about John's memory of getting knocked out of the truck. And he also proudly told me that he has that gun that is in the pictures. It was given to him after his Grandfather passed away.
I donated a LOT of scrappy stuff to the Girl Scouts a couple of weeks ago and in doing so, we found an old photo album of John's. I thought I had scrapped all of his childhood albums. Obviously not! So I'm scrapping! I'll share a few layouts here and there as I do them. Thankfully the album was a paper one and his mom used photo corners, so they weren't in one of those horrid sticky ones that were so popular in the 70's.
We'll start with John's Paternal Grandfather. I've covered up his name to protect the innocent! Grandfather died long before I came on the scene, but John has very fond memories of travels with his grandparents. They took him on a vacation with them when he was small and all he wanted to eat was Kentucky Fried Chicken. He says they went to a "white tablecloth" restaurant one night for dinner and he said Grandfather wanted to throttle him when he asked the waiter if they had Kentucky Fried Chicken!!
Paper is CTMH Back Country (retired) and I used Pinky to cut the tree embellie. The border is also retired CTMH Color Ready Borders that I used Sparkle and Sprinkle Golden Follies embossing powder on.
Miss Joy had to write an essay for school about a creative person she knew. And she chose to write about her Aunt Sue! Jan had told me how much Joy liked the things I made and gave her, but never in my wildest dreams did I ever think to this extent. She made me cry!
And of course I had to scrap the essay! I used the now discontinued CTMH You Rock paper pack. The layout is my adaptation of one I saw in Scrapbooks, Etc magazine. The chipboard embellishments are from my stash and they are covered in Washi Tape. The title "essay" uses CTMH Newsprint Rub-Ons.
One of my CTMH sisters posted an adorable card and cutting instructions for her version of the red Angry Bird. I HAD to make one of my own! Used the Cricut and Art philosophy cartridge. I think the feet are too small in proportion to the rest of it, so my next attempt will fix that minor problem.
Aunt Sue's scrappin again! Not before it's time though! This is Joy's school pic from LAST year. Kinda like with the Halloween houses, I guess I was waiting for Typeset paper to come out! That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!
I used Bottom Border-Portrait layout from Reflections. Stamp set is Vintage Type. The scalloped circle was cut using my Nestabilities. I used Twinking H2O's on the "J" for a little bit of shimmery goodness. And the canvas "You're Smart" is from the Compliments Typeset add-ons. There's a Foundry Pin holding the tag a.
