'Love This Moment At Sunset' - 12x12 Layout

Good morning everyone on this beautiful Sunday.
I am finially back with a 12x12 layout I did earlier in the week using Amy Tangerine 'Rise and Shine'.

For this layout I got out my gelatos in the same colours that were in my sunset photo to give the background colour.

I knew it needed somthing up in the top corner so I grabed a couple of scrap pieces of my 6x6 'Rise and Shine' paper pad and did a few banners.

I love, love, love these cute little stickers I piscked up from a cheap shop. They came in a pack about 3x8 with 4 or 5 differnt sizes. I love becuase they give the same effect as enamal dots.

I hope you are having a lovely weekend.
Happy Scrapping. :)

Lydia xxx

GUEST BLOGGER - Mariah Hechler

Hey Everyone, Today on the blog I have the beautiful and talented Mariah sharing a wonderful layout and sharing her Scrapbook Planner.

Lydia xxx

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Hi there!  I'm excited to be here on Lydia's blog today.  I'm Mariah.  I've been scrapbooking for about 12 years.  I'm married to my high school sweetheart.  We have three boys ages 7, 9, and 11.  I am currently a design team member for Clique Kits.  That has been a lot of fun.  In my spare time I like to read, hunt and fish, camp, and spend time with my family.  

Here is my Social Media Information:

Blog:  www.fun2scrap.blogspot.com.  

Instagram: mhechler

Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbPfvw5IaANNp_DYOSrZNJQ

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/484015325063949/

So, today, I want to share a layout with you and a few tips on how to organize your photos and pages for layouts.

I made this layout using a sketch from the Scrap Our Stash March Sketch Challenge designed by Karan Gerber.  I don't usually use sketches when I scrapbook, but I really loved this one.  The papers came from the March Clique Kits J'Adore Kit.  

Now to how I organize my photos and pages for crafting.  I think I should start off by saying that I have three different types of scrapbooks.  Three are chronological (One for each boy), one is just for fun, and the other is my Project Life Album.  Let's talk about how I organize each of those.  Let's start with my Just for Fun Album.  This album has no rhyme or reason.  It's not organized at all other than by the fact it's made with photos or stories that I love.  

The next album is my Project Life Album.  This album is organized chronologically by week for the year 2015.  I don't follow the strict two page rule.  So in the photo below you are looking at Week 4 and Week 5.  That doesn't mean I don't do the two page spreads, however.  I just decided not to limit myself into a box this year.  I choose to run my weeks from Friday to Thursday.  So, if I were to do this week, it would start Friday April 10-Thursday April 16.  

Here is my planning page for Project Life.  I usually just go through the photos on my phone or computer and write them down when they are in the time frame of a certain week.  You can see it's really formal..ha.  I usually just toss the sheet out when I'm done with all of the pages and start a new one.  

Now, how I make my chronological albums is quite different.  These are extremely planned and fit my Type A personality.  Now, I'm doing one for each child.  So each child will receive chronological albums for their childhood.  Most of the pages I do are duplicates.  So I make the same page three times.  I might use different papers or embellishments, but they are the same photos and photo layout.  I also include pages that are unique to each boy.  So special accomplishments or things about each child are included.  Here is how I plan them.  I keep a notebook.  This notebook is like my prize possession when it comes to scrapbooking.  It holds my sketches and pages that are planned to be made.  It's pretty complicated so, I decided to make a quick Youtube Video for you.  Please let me know if you have questions in the comments!

It was great to be here today.  Thanks, Lydia, for having me!  Hope you all enjoyed it!

Project Life - Week 12

Hi everyone, Hope you are all having a great start to the weekend.
Here I am shring Week 12 of my Project Life.

This week I really didnt take that many photos but I did end up with a double layout.

Right Side - 

(Sorry It isnt in order, blogger is making this post very difficult to move the phots)

Left Side -

Details - For all of my cards with journaling I used some of the Kellie Stamps (GiveAGirlABlog) day stamps.

Title Card - Used a Heidi Swapp PL card and some of the beautiful Maggie Holmes Open Book Collection flowers.

 Hope you enjoyed. :)
Lydia xxx

#myselfiescrapbook Challenge/Project

Hi everyone!!
Here to share a awesome project that I have joined in on brought to you by Jen Lake from Sunshine And Air.

This project is based on getting yourself in front of the camera and not behind it. I really wanted to do this project as 1 of my big goals this year was to get more photos of myself into my Project Life. the project is mean't to be in a 4x4 Instagram album but I have decided that since I dont have one I am going to have a go at making a mini album, as I have been inspired by @nataliemakes and @melissamariemakes mini albums on Instagram.

To get all the information and to see the wonderul works from the partners of this project make sure to visit Jen's Blog post here.

I will be sharing my process and photos of #myselfiescrapbook on here and on my Instagram (lyd_gibson).

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So to get started on this project I have already done 2 of the photo promts.

- Start with the Feet

- What You Carry

                                         

I have also started my mini book cover but will share some photos in the next few days with more photos to go with more of the promts.

Make sure to check out the #myselfiescrapbook hashtag on Instagram to get some inspiration if you are joining in on this project.

Hope you are all are having a great week.
Lydia xxx

'My Heart Is Full At Sunset" - 12x12 Layout

Here I am again with a 12x12 layout that I only just did this morning.
I am totally loving school holidays as I can scrap whenever I like so that could be ALL day if I wanted too.

Lately I have been trying to use up some supplies including the beautiful Maggie Holmes Open Book collection, in which I have done so much with and still have heaps left of.
So here is the layout.

I LOVE how this all turned out.
I will be back to finially share my Week 12 PL.
Lydia xxx

Happy Easter!!

Good Afternoon everyone. Wow, I have'nt posted since the 28th of my Junkies post.
Well I am back here to wish you all a very late Happy Easter. I hope you all had a great time with family and had lots of chcoclate to eat.
 
I am sharing this a bit late as I wannted to share it before easter but was a bit busy with the last few days of First term at school.

I made up these cute little chocolate bags for my friends at school for easter. I also made cute easy tags for the bags just say 'Happy Easter'.

All I used to make these cute tags are some Dear Lizzy Project Life cards, card stock, sewing machine and some little alphas.

I love how they ended up and I am sure my friends loved the chocolates too.
I will be back later sharing Week 12 of my PL and a 12x12 layout I have just finished.
Lydia xxx

GUEST BLOGGER - Krisy Podolak - #2

Good evening everyone. Today I have the wonderful Krisy back guest blogging 2 backgrounds with 2 different layouts. 

I hope you enjoy. 

Lydia xxx

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Thank you Lydia for inviting me back again.  

Today I am going to share two different layouts using a very similar background.  I want to show by using different embellishments and colours something very simple can look and feel very different.

Firstly, the Background.  I was inspired by the current trend of ink/paint splashes and stamping.  I have this really groovy triangle roller stamp that I picked up in a pack through an online garage sale site.  Until now I have never used it but triangles are in so it was time to break in this bad boy.  Using Stayzon Ink I rolled the triangles on the card in random areas but kept the pattern going in the same direction.  Once I was happy with the triangles, using Heidi Swapp colour shine I spattered colour on to the paper randomly.  I did this by unscrewing the lid and flicking the paint from the tube attached to the sprayer.  Once I was happy, I let this dry.  I repeated this process a second time.  You will never get an identical looking page and you can add more or less depending on how you feel.

It doesn’t look like much at this stage but its all about the layers and the embellishments.

Once the backgrounds were dry, I used one to create quite a feminine layout of my daughter, Poppy and I scrapbooking.  I used the new  Bo Bunny Pincushion  Collection (Bits N Pieces, layered chipboard and Combo Stickers) to create a layered effect around the photo. 

The photo is overexposed in the top corner due to the window being behind us but I just embellished a little more in this area.  I love the photo and it’s the first photo that I can see myself in Poppy so I wanted to use it. The words are from aKaisercraft Chapter One piece of paper that I have been hoarding.  I have quite a few piece of paper that I have been saving for sometime actually a really long time, so my goal this year it to USE my stash! 

Additional embellishments I used: Twine, Sequins, Flair, Studio Calico Wood Veneer, Stampin Up Stamp, ribbon Bow.

With the second layout I went a lot simpler.  I used the New Simple Stories Say Cheese Collection teamed up with a little Studio Calico Wood Veneer and D-Lish Scraps Glitter Bow I wanted this page to be about the photo.   The layering of embellishments is something new for me.  I haven’t used embellishments like this before but I like the way it looks. The more I look at this layout I think it could have used something more.  Perhaps more layers of triangles over the top of the existing ones so that it doesn’t look so flat? What do you think?

So that’s it.  Two very different Layouts using one very similar background.

 Krisy.