One Theme Album Using Collage Photos

Last year I went to my cousin's wedding, it was so great to see a lot of friends and family members I love and care about, I must have taken more than 200 photos, and I wish I could have scrapbooked all of them, but we know that is impossible.

Yesterday I talked about how great collage photos look on layouts, today I would like to show you how that same type of photo can be used to complete an album about a same topic without leaving out photos you like.

This is an album I made for me, and my goal was to tell the story of the amazing party and the great time we all had, for that reason it was really necessary to add a lot of photos. Since most of my family was there, this album is also a keepsake that has all their happy faces in it :)

The Making Memories D-Ring album with 6” X 9” pages was perfect for this project, I made a total of 18 pages, all in the same design so it would be faster to complete.

What I did was group the photos in horizontal 5” X 7” collages.
Since there was not that much space left on the pages after adding the collages, and I had a lot to say about each photo, I decided to add the journaling on separate pages.

Supplies
Paper-K & Company
Cardstock-Bazzill Basics
Flowers-Prima
Border Punch-EK Success and Martha Stewart
Brads, Gems and Chipboard Letters-K & Company

Have a Great day!

=Diana

Collage Photos on Layouts

Hello! Diana here, excited to bring you my first post.
I would like to share with you my latest obsession “Collage Photos”, when I scrapbook I frequently add lots of photos to my pages, that is because for me scrapbooking is a way of documenting events that happen in my life and most of the time I need more then one photo to tell the story.
To make collage photos you can either order them at snapfish.com like I did or if you print your own photos and have a computer program that allows that option have fun creating your own.

Here is an example of a double page layout I made



I was able to add a total of 12 photos from this day we spent at an Apple Orchard. I also like how the collage photo looks on a single page layout.

Having the photos all grouped in a 5X7 frame allowed me extra space to add more details to my pages without covering them up with bigger photos

Supplies used:
Pattern Paper-Making Memories
Cardstock-Bazzill Basics
Die Cut- K&Company
Border Punches-EK Success
Ribbon: American Crafts
Flowers: Maya Road
Glittered Chipboard Shapes: Making Memories
Alphas-American Crafts

I hope I was able to provide some inspiration for your next layout, come back tomorrow and I’ll show you how I used collage photos to make the pages of a 6”X9” Album.

Enjoy your day!
=Di

Paper Dolls for Us Grown Ups!

Paper Dolls have been around for as long as there has been paper. Young girls would often be given these paper dolls as Christmas gifts and have so much fun changing their clothes and having adventures. As a part of a recent swap with a friend, I realized paper dolls are just as fun now for grown ups, as they must have been for girls of long ago.







To make my paper doll, I used a doll form from the book, Victorian Children Paper Dolls by Evelyn Gathings.

I glued her down on top of a white sheet of cardstock to make her a bit more sturdy. Here she is ready for dressing up:

I'm sure there is an easier way to make her clothes, but I chose to trace around her body and then just wing it and draw the dresses shape! Once drawn (making sure to add flaps so the dress can stay on the doll), I cut out and began to embellish.

Here is my doll in her first dress:

I attached vintage lace pieces, a vintage flower and bias tape on the dress shape I had cut out using my Webster's Pages paper. *Tip: You may want to cut two identical pieces of patterned paper or provide a study backing for all the embellishments. I added heavy things to it and I found I needed an extra layer on my dress.*

For the second dress, I wanted to make it a bit festive for this time of year.

I used my Webster's Pages paper, vintage sheet music, vintage lace and KaiserKraft pearls to complete this dress.

I had so much fun playing with my doll and I can't wait to make another!

~Julie

Introducing a new challenge ...

Today I am introducing a new monthly challenge I will be hosting, I'm calling it the WCP Challenge. I am sure you have heard of or played along with one similar to it before. The WCP stands for Words, Colors and Pictures. On the first Saturday of every month, I will introduce the WCP and what we are making (ATC, Twinchie, Card, Inchie, Layout,etc). You will have one week to play along and feel inspired. Once completed, share it on our new Group for the challenge on our Scrappy Community HERE. Or just come and visit to chat about how we created our projects and get tips. I hope the challenge and the group will encourage folks to try new things, help others learn and trigger your creativity :)

December
WCP

Type of project: Layout
Word: GIVE
Color: BLUE

Picture:


I chose a LO as our first type of project because I really feel like it's my weak spot. I understand with my lack of talent, this sample may discourage rather than encourage you to join the group, but again, I hope each months WCP will help us take on things we may not be great at and inspire us to be creative and supportive!



For me, the word GIVE, drove this project and the blue picture of Christmas ornaments reminded me how important it is to teach our children to give back, especially at this time of year when so many families need the support and help. I borrowed the image from this blog that spoke of William and Mary students that are part of a public service fellowship and have helped earn $282,231.! Our family picks a local family to support every year, we hope our kids are learning through those efforts to Give back as often as they can.

Items used on the LO: Thickers, wide white rick rack, Bo Bunny , a gift of love PP, Snowflakes were cut from the Accent Essentials Cricut cartridge, I used a white chalk marker to outline the Thickers in the title.

Thanks for visiting, I hope you join the group and join the fun!

Happy Saturday!

Kristin xxx

Welcome our new Design Team Member...

Diana

Tell us about yourself Diana:-

"I've been married since 2007; we don't have any children yet but plan on having two in the near future. For now, we adopted a cat named Sammy and he is a brat who we love and spoil a lot!

I've been scrapbooking since 2005. They gave me a scrapbook 101 class at my local scrap store and since then it has been my main hobby. Scrapbooking is my way of documenting important events in my life that I would always want to remember and would like to share with my future kids and their kids. I also like to make all kinds of projects for my dearest family and friends; it's my way of showing them how much I care.

Besides my favorite scrappy pastime, making layouts, I really love to make mini albums! I enjoy all the process from decorating the cover to adding the photos and decorating the pages. I also like to make cards; it is the perfect way to use all the extra paper pieces from making LO's and I really like to give handmade cards to the special people in my life.

I am recognizable by my curly hair, which I inherited from my beautiful mom. And I smile a lot! :) As well as scrapping I also enjoy taking lots of photos; I like to read, mostly novels; and I really enjoy traveling - just a one day trip to a different nearby city is fun for me. I love downtown Chicago, there is always a lot to explore.

To The Scrappy Tree team : It is a huge honor to participate as a DT in your amazing blog, I was so happy when I got the invitation! Thank you all bunches, I hope I can bring some inspiration to TST followers :)

To see where she gets her inspiration from, we asked Diana for some of her favourite blogs and websites. Favourite blogs were The Scrappy Tree, Zunky Chic, A Kiss On The Chic, It’s Me KP, Amy Tangerine and Just me, my soldier and our 2 little chicks, Favourite websites included scrapbook.com, Jenni Bowlin, Blue Moon Scrapbooking and Studio Calico.

Now on to the projects!

-Christmas Banners~

I enjoy making Banners because they are a great decoration and also because it takes only a few supplies to put them together. It is a great excuse to use leftovers of a paper collection you like.

~Noel Banner~

For this banner I used: Making Memories Mistletoe Paper, Tape and Pins, Prima Poinsettia, Maya Road Ornate Tags, Jillibean Soup Alphabeans, Red Acrylic Paint, Red Stickles, Assorted Brads and Ribbon.

Note: each Triangle is cut out of a Box and they measure 5in W X 6in L. to make them more resistant and also cover up the carton color you can add a piece of cardstock paper to the back.

~Joy Banner~

Supplies:Pink Paislee Mistletoe & Co. Paper, Maya Road Snowflake Coasters, Prima Chipboard Alphas, Gem Brads, Creme Acrylic Paint, Brown Chalk Ink, Red Decorative Trim


Please welcome Diana to the team!

November's Art Journal Friday

Happy Friday bloggers and crafters, and welcome to the November edition of Art Journal Friday! If you haven't played before, I post a prompt here on the last Friday of the month which runs all weekend, and we invite to use this as inspiration for some art journaling over the weekend using any medium you like. You're invited to share your piece with us over at our Ning community, where you're sure to receive lots of love for your artwork, and if you don't feel able to share by all means come on over and leave some love for someone else! Art journaling is for everyone and we would love you to come join us!

This month sees us in the middle of Thanksgiving weekend in America, and in the UK... it's the end of November! After November comes December, that particular time of year when for many of us life steps up a gear for a good couple of weeks :) Some of us enjoy the excitement and the change of pace, and some of us dread it and wait for January! ;)

Well for this month's prompt I would like to invite you to journal how you feel about the upcoming festive season; are there certain things appearing that are making you feel excited about the time to come? Or does it more fit you to create something calming to counteract the rising tide of busybusybusy which is fast approaching? Come join us this weekend and share your December anticipation! Click here to take you to our Ning community if you'd like to visit us there and share some thoughts :)

Happy journaling! Gayle xx

Happy Thanksgiving

The Scrappy Tree wishes all our American followers a Happy Thanksgiving and we hope everyone around the world has things to be thankful for this year.

Have a wonderful day ♥

Dear 2010, thank you for...

Here we are at Day 3 of our thankful challenge! Thanksgiving is right around the corner for our American friends, and for us Brits... well, it's nearly December and December means Christmas, right?? :) The Brits in-the-know will be using this week as a good excuse to keep those pumpkin based recipes going now that Halloween is well and truly over, and feeling very jealous of the long weekend that's about to hit Stateside!

This time last year I did a layout for our thankfulness challenge, and I really wanted to revisit that this year as I'm in a very different place now; I found it really inspiring to think of all the good things that have happened in the past year! For the journalling I used a prompt from Shimelle's True Stories class and went through the alphabet thinking of all the good stuff!

I used Bobunny 'A Gift of Love' 12x12 and a matching journaling spot, an assortment of Thickers and Papermania mini-alphas, Prima and Papermania flowers and some brads and a button from my stash. For the journaling I used my Dymo for the date, and then journaled on some plain luggage tags, using Inspirations alphabet stamps for the large letters (stamped with fired brick and faded jeans Distress Ink) and a Gelly Roll black pen for the rest of the writing. I also inked around the edges of the tags and page with fired brick Distress Ink, and stamped an Inkadinkado flourish onto the red card in embossing Distress Ink to create the pockets, embellishing with a few dashes of gold Stickles.

Wishing you all a wonderful Thanksgiving from me and The Scrappy Tree :)

Gayle xx