I have a new Scrapbook Challenge up over at StampTV! Don't forget...every Tuesday, you'll find a new scrapbooking challenge over in the Challenge Forum on StampTV by yours truly!
This is an 8x8 page and, while I normally work on 12x12 pages, this size works great if you have extra photos that you couldn't fit on a bigger layout, but you still want to scrapbook it. 8x8 albums make great gifts...and it's also another way to use those extra photos in a gift album for grandparents or other relatives. Or even a coffee table book. Or...to make an album to give as a gift to the person featured on the pages. I'm actually thinking of creating an 8x8 album for each of my kids with the extra photos and using the journaling as a way to tell the kids how I feel about them. Kind of like a letter to the kids, complete with pictures of them. Some day, their kids will be able to look at them!
You could also use this sketch and transfer it to a 12x12 page if you're using a larger photo, like a 5 x 7 photo.
Most of the supplies for this page came from the new Floral Frenzy kit. This kit is the featured kit for StampTV right now. There are two stamp sets in this kit, but for some reason, I've really latched on to this Bold Flowers set. It's just so perfect for the energy and personality of my daughter. It works so well for pictures of her.
I used one of the images to create a background effect on some Groovy Guava cardstock. I stamped a line of grass/stems along the bottom of the page and then added some punched out flowers that were completed with a white brad in the middle, then popped up off the page with pop-dots.
The mat for the photo and the journaling, as well as the printed paper under the journaling, are all from the kit. I used a length of Old Olive grosgrain ribbon to coordinate with the green on the backpack and pop out some color.
If you'd like to take part in the challenge, and also to have a chance at winning a fantastic prize (a GinaK stamp set), head on over to the challenge, check out the sketch and get scrapping! You have until Monday of next week, so it's still plenty of time.
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