Remember This

Hi all, I'm back with the third and final challenge for the SG Scrap Squad Facebook group. I had so much fun today creating the three layouts. You can see the other two layouts HERE and HERE. I hope you'll take a minute and check them out.

My final layout is all about my mom's rose from her funeral arrangement. They were simply stunning. I didn't realize that at the site they have the family member's take one from the arrangement if they'd like. I'm so glad I did.  Some beautiful to remember the day instead of just the sadness.

The challenge was to use a rainbow of colors and to choose how you wanted your layout to go. I chose circles and added my rainbow around the outer edges. 

I started off by stamping the circles in jet black ink using swirly frames from Stampin' Up! I just recently got this set and thought it worked great with the two large paper circles I cut out.

I used a paper punch to punch flowers from a rainbow of colors and then cut them in half. Each flower had one color on each side so I was able to stretch the punched flowers further. I used some dimensional foam under the large picture to give some extra dimension to the layout. 

I added some green punched corner pieces to help make the photos pop a bit more. The punches I've had forever and just don't seem to use them anymore. This was the perfect layout to pull some out and get punching. 

Here I have a close up of the "rainbow" of flowers around my circle. I am loving how this turned out. I used some epoxy word and heart stickers that I've had on hand for the title and some embellishing. 

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Happy Beautiful Happiness

When I was on self quarantine the last two weeks of March 2020 I was able to watch my yard come alive. Sitting in my craft room looking out at my front yard I couldn't believe that the tree had started turning red and the grass was green (I seriously didn't go anywhere). So I had to take a look at the back and my little tree and lilac bushes were starting to sprout as well.

This is amazing to see as we go through this rough time and are stuck in our homes. The beauty of what is outside still captivates me and shows that everything is new again.

This layout was inspired by another challenge over at SG Scrap Squad on Facebook. This time we have several things to choose from in an this or that fashion. I used the same papers from my first layout you can see HERE since it was already out on my craft table. 

I used all patterned paper and stamped the pink paper with a raindrop stamp to give a little dimension to the background. 

I used my Altenew halftone hearts nesting dies to create the hearts on the page, also from the patterned paper. I stacked a few and added some twine under to give a little more whimsy.

For my title to chose this large foam beautiful and left it white so it would stand out from all the patterned paper colors. I added a wood happy (I forgot I had the other element with happiness in it) and added a few epoxy dots. 

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Love Happy Memories

I was able to get these cute photos of our dog Louise. She just stood there staring at me looking all cute so I, of course, took full advantage of the situation!  Our other two dogs never sit long enough or stay still long enough to get a really cute picture.

I used a layout challenge from the SG Scrap Squad on Facebook. I love being a part of this group. They are having virtual crops all through April to help keep us up beat. This is the first challenge of the weekend.

I had a lot of fun with the bright colors of the papers and I couldn't help but use the bright aqua blue for the background. It just screams Spring.  I did have a bit of difficulty with the patterned part. It took three tries to get it right. 

I enjoyed making the little clusters of embellishments with just using the 12x12 sticker sheet that came with the paper pack. I didn't really care for the sentiment that was on the tag so I pop dotted the memories sticker over it and added the happy.

I used a thin pink washi to make the title placement. I was originally not going to put a title up there but felt it was a little bare with just the bird. I dug through my stash and found this cute love epoxy sticker. 

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Homegrown

I finally decided to do a layout all about me! If I'm usually in a spread then it's always with others.  I wish I would have done more of myself when my kiddo's were small just to "prove" I was really there lol.

It seems that us mom's are ALWAYS behind the camera and when we did get in front of the lens our heads might be cut off or the photo is weird (always happens when my hubby takes pics}

For this layout I used a layout kit from Echo Park called Homegrown.  I love the different patterns it provides and the colors are so pretty.

I used a sketch that you can get for free over at Scrapbook Generation.

There are pretty recent pictures and I am going to add the year (I didn't realize I forgot until I just uploaded it).  Other than that, I'm loving how this layout turned out.

Baseball

Here is a fun layout using pictures from a game day my husband's work had.  I've gone the last two years and both years the Sox got rain delayed. Both years we ended up leaving early and going home. This year we were able to take our youngest son Jacob.  He had so much fun and really enjoyed the bus ride to and from the stadium.

It took me a couple of weeks to get this done.  I just couldn't get the mojo to work for me.  I finally sat down this morning and just finished it up.

Good Times

I am on a role with these cub scout pictures lol.  Not sure why I suddenly have the mojo to get them scrapped but I'm sure glad I do!!

I used another great sketch from my Scrapbook Generation sketch books and it helped get this layout together quickly.  I also did a challenge on the SG Online Crop going on this weekend that had you use stars.

I'm usually a big star person so it was a bit hard for me to figure out exactly what to do with them so I added a half border on one side and some accents on the other. I did use two different star die sets, one from The Stamps of Life and the other from Catherine Pooler Designs.  The title is another die set from The Stamps of Life.

These are some of my most favorite pictures of my oldest son.  He had so much fun and the large smiles he kept giving melted my heart.  I loved watching him hanging out with his den buddies and making all his silly faces. 

Tree Trimming & Trains

Another cub scout layout done! Every year we'd take a train ride to the Zoo and the scouts would decorate our two trees with the ornaments they made during their den meetings.  They loved doing this and it was so fun to watch them decide where the perfect place was lol!!

For this layout I used a sketch book from Scrapbook Generation that I bought quite a few years ago at the Scrapbook Expo.  They come together so quick with these sketches and no two layouts look the same!

X-Mas Party

I love getting to spend these rainy/snowy weekends in my craft room getting some much needed photos scrapped! These pics are all the way back from 2005! I have tons of scouting photos between my three kids and between being a leader.

I started getting really tired of scrapping them and was having such a hard time coming up with new ideas.  So now I do them whenever I need something to scrap and I just pick papers and go with it.

I got this great layout idea from the SG Online Crop that's going on this weekend.  Each day has different things to work on and we have until March 22nd to finish it all up!