Friday Scrapbook Pages

I REALLY want to finish this scrapbook today.  Above you see the first page of today's efforts.

Page #1 (above): This page was quick and easy.  The background was from an 8 x 8 paper pack from HOTP.  I thought the design on it was perfect for a basketball page.  The 3D title & embellishments were from my stash.

Page #2:

I thought a black and white background pattern was perfect for a page about a black and white dog.  I added strips of washi tape top and bottom of the focal photo & the journaling.  Silver stickers on a black background forms the title.  I used a silver marker for the journaling.

Page #3:

Another soccer page - background paper and brad buddies from the same Soccer Kit as used previously.  The soccer ball in the lower right corner was a foam ball from my stash.  The lower border was a strip of black card stock with some narrow washi tape on it.

Page #4:

The background paper and the patterned matted paper were again from an old HOTP paper pack - as were the cut outs.  The journaling block was framed with a sticker from my stash.  Purple glimmer paper from my stash mats everything.

Page #5:

This page is based on a piece of marbled card stock from my stash.  The patterned paper is an old HOTP paper.  I used washi tape to frame the page, title, and focal.  Red velvet stickers form the title and smaller red stickers form the subtitle.  The star is a brad buddy from HOTP.

Page #6:

This background and most of the papers were from an 8 x 8 paper pack from HOTP.  The title was made with stickers and some of those papers.  The embellishments are brad buddies from HOTP.

Page #7:

The background paper is another 8 x 8 paper from HOTP.  The title was die cut from brown card stock from my stash.  The rest of the cut outs and die cuts were miscellaneous from my stash - also from HOTP.

 Page #8:

This page is different from what I usually do!  The background paper (from a HOTP 8 x 8 paper pad) had all these "strips" of paper as a part of it.  I chose to use my craft knife to cut around some of them so I could slip the photo's largest mat under them before adding the matted photo itself.  The title was die cut from the same paper as the large mat.  Then I added a variety of stickers from my stash.

Page #9:

The tiled part of the background paper is embossed along the "grout lines" - pretty cool.  I added some "water" look paper, shaping the photo as you see here using detail scissors.  The title was velvety stickers and I added another sticker for decoration.  I'll add the journaling later on the lines below the title.  I don't know that I want to add anything else, but reserve the right to change my mind! 😉

Pages 10 & 11:

This double page layout again makes use of materials from the Finished in a Flash Soccer kit from HOTP.  Here's a closer look at each page:

Page #10:

This page was really quick and easy.  It started with the lovely background paper & die cuts from the kit.  As you can see, I double matted the photo with black and green card stock from my stash - then added journaling.  I attached the title with foam tape for added dimension.

Page #11:

To the background paper & die cuts from the kit, this time I added a bit of netting (avocado bag) - a nod to the net in the goal - as well as matting the photo on black as you see.  The "goalie" die cut is on foam tape.

Page #12:

The background paper is actually parts of two papers since the lower part of the original was too "babyish" for an 8th grad page.  To this, I added matted photos and journaling & several cutouts (most from old HOTP kit.

Page #13:

This last page is not particularly exciting from an aesthetic standpoint, but I wanted all 3 pictures on it and already cropped them all I wanted to, so there wasn't much room left for title, journaling, and embellishments.  As you can see, I used a Sharpie marker around the edges instead of matting, Dazzles stickers on a couple of the photos for embellishments, alphabet stickers for titles, and took most of the remaining space for journaling.

 It feels WONDERFUL to get this last page finished!  Other than a few individual pages made some time ago, I've completed 3 albums in 3 months!  A total of 142 pages for these books in the last 3 months - along with two 12 x 12 pages for Thanksgiving, a "squash" book, and 3 multipocket mini scrapbooks for gifts (to say nothing of all the cards I've made in that time).  I'm sure that's some sort of record for me!