More Fun Scrapbook Pages

I have often seen scrapbook pages where folks had cut the photo into shapes of some kind.  I never really cared for the look, so imagine my surprise when I found myself doing that very thing!  I find working with 8 x 8 sized pages so much harder than 12 x 12 - especially when I want several pictures on one page, and cropping is often the best answer - though I don't usually crop them into shapes.

Scrapbook Page #1 (above):  Trying to figure out how to work well with the background evergreen paper, I hit on the idea of making ornaments of the pictures.  I used Spellbinders dies (Heirloom Ornaments 2011 & 2012) to cut the pictures - then traced around them to fussy cut the gold mats.  Like the focal photo, they were Polaroid pictures, and when I cut them, the photos fell apart into front piece & backing piece.  I have no idea how much the backing for the photos keeps the color in the photo.  I used double sided tape to re-connect the parts - I hope they stay looking nice!  

As you can see, I added a red strip from my stash down the right side of the page.  I added the focal photo, a journaling piece, and a gold braid across the top of the page.  I added 3 brad buddies - the "Noel" was matted on white card stock before using a brad to connect it to the page.  The star and red ornaments were also attached with a brad, but before I did that I tied narrow gold ribbon to the tops of those & the tops of the picture ornaments.  The picture ornaments are taped in place with double-sided tape.  The tops of the hanging ribbons are taped to the back of the page.  I took the picture before remembering to erase the pencil drawn lines for the journaling, but I'll do that before it goes in the album.

Scrapbook Page #2:

This was a challenging page to create because I had already written on the edges of the photos a long time ago & I didn't want to trim the story off - which really limited my layout on an 8 x 8 page!  If I had been thinking, I'd have copied the story onto a journaling panel & then cropped the photos - but that didn't occur to me until the page was done.  

Anyway, as you can see, I used 2 patterned papers - the yellow for the base page, and borders of the blue.  Most of the papers & embellishments came from HOTP, including the Dazzles stickers (spoon & pot) that I backed with scraps of orange paper.  The word "months" was written on a scrap of orange paper, and the smaller picture was matted twice - once with the same yellow as the background, and once with a navy card stock.  The other embellishments were from a couple of Finished in a Flash scrapbooking kits.

Scrapbook Pages #3 & 4:

As you can see, this is a two-page spread.  Here's a closer look at the two pages:

 

Scrapbook Page #3:

The title is on the other page, but you can see the journaling block is on this page.  I used 5 different patterned papers if you count both pages - the main blue you see (and a different blue for the title piece on the next page), the pink and blue plaid, and two different patterned pinks.  As you can see, I matted the photos - with a bigger mat for the focal photo.   I inked the edges of the focal photo's mat & the journaling block with a blue ink (Distress Oxide Faded Jeans).  The flowers were made by stamping with a darker pink (stamp/die from Stampendous Build a Bouquet, ink was Distress Oxide Picked Raspberry) and using the matching die to cut them out.  Then I used a blue Stickles on the flower centers.

Scrapbook Page #4:

Here you see a couple of cropped photos, a couple more of the flowers, and the title piece.  For that, I die cut a circle from the pink, and letters/numbers from the other blue pattern.  Then I cut the scalloped circle (Beaded Circles die from Spellbinders).  I inked both the circle and the scalloped circle before assembling the piece.