Field Day Scrapbooking Pocket Pages Layout

Hi everyone. I'm challenging myself to create more pocket pages. I just love creating these since each piece is like a mini blank canvas. Plus, they’re great for inserting these into albums when you have lots of photos you want to use to tell a story. This particular spread is all about field day at my daughter’s school.
 

 
Supplies | September 2018 Kit, Go Team Journaling Tags, Celebrate Journaling Tags, Little Photo Flag Stickers, Here and Now Stickers, Hazel Alphabet Stickers — White, Jane Alphabet Stickers — Navy, Go Team Wood Veneer, Wood Veneer Phrases, ABC Wood Veneer, White Puffy Alphabet Stickers, Black Puffy Alphabet Stickers, Hello Happy Puffy Words, Puffy Heart Stickers — Spring Mix, Puffy Heart Stickers — Summer Mix, Story Acrylic, Hazel Alphabet Stamp, Family Fun Puffy Stickers, Family Fun — 6 x 6 Paper Stack
 
I chose to use four 4″x6″ photos and four 2″x3″ photos.  To get started with this double pocket page, I placed my photos around the page to see what I was working with and then grounded it by opening the page with a blue 4″x6″ tag from the September 2018 Kit and ending with another blue 4″x6″ tag that I created with a pattern from the Family Fun 6″ x 6″ Paper Stack. Once that was set, I was off to work on page one.
 

 
Our field days are split into some partner activities and commences with team activities.  I chose to create the spread as such. For this page, I chose to focus on photos that told more of the story of my daughter and how much she loved the experience. This is all about the story of field day and the Story Acrylic made for a perfect title along with some White Puffy Alphabet Stickers and Jane Alphabet Stickers in navy.  I added bits from the September 2018 Kit die cuts and the Wood Veneer Phrases to add a bit of extra character to the tag.
 

 
I added the word FUN using the Family Fun Puffy Stickers. The Hazel Alphabet Stamp was calling to be used, so I stamped words that made sense to follow “Fun”—fun day, fun times, fun friends!  The Hazel stamps stamp so nice and clean, but I chose to use distress ink to give it a grungy look, since we were playing outside in the dirt and water most of the day!
 

 
Next, I pulled in the pink and darker pink diagonal card from the September 2018 Kit. It’s pre-printed with “TODAY IS” and then there’s a great spot to write, type or stamp in an open space, but I chose to use the Hazel Alphabet Stickers to say “today is awesome.” Lastly on this page, I chose the colorful, dotted 4″x6″ tag from the September 2018 Kit and using the Hello Happy Puffy Words, I added “you are,” above the label and then added what I think about this photo of her pouring water on herself on this very hot—way too cute!  I used the navy Jane Alphabet Stickers again, which were a perfect fit in the label.
 

 
Moving to the next page, I chose to focus the photos on all the teamwork part of field day. These are the highlights of her class and how hard they worked for their victory.
 

 
The banner tag from the Celebrate Journaling Tags I used here was perfect for this spread!  They resembled sports pennants, so I added her teacher’s name below using Black Puffy Alphabet Stickers, and their team name along with a die cut banner from the September 2018 Kit .  For the tag below, I chose the “game on” tag from the Go Team Journaling Tags and popped up a banner die cut below, leaving room for journaling.
 

 
Next, I hard a nice open space in the field part of the photo of my daughter practicing. I added Hazel Alphabet Stickers to fill in that open space, reading “practice makes perfect.” Then to coordinate with the colorful polka dot tag on the other page, I included another one on this side with a slightly different design.  This could easily serve as another journaling spot, but I chose to embellish with the Go Team Wood Veneer, Little Photo Flag Stickers, Here and Now Phrase Stickers and a few puffy embellishments that coordinated with the colors of the card.
 
Thanks so much for joining me today.  I hope you have an amazing day!

New Year's Resolutions Pocket Letter / Pocket Page

Hi everyone, I am so excited for 2018 Resolutions week. I thought it'd be fun to create a pocket page that will coordinate with a New Year's Eve page you'll see here on the blog next week. This pocket page will store our resolutions notes for 2018 that we'll write on NYE, hence the empty spots.

Grab your supplies

I used a mix of Pebbles collections that included gold elements, like Girl Squad, Heart of Home and Merry Merry. I even added some gold packaging from a recent mailer I received.

Kick it off with 2018

This pocket page will also be the opening page for my 2018 album next year so it just made sense to add 2018 to the 1st pocket. I added a doily as the base and then just layered over it.

Hello

I was originally going to add "hello" to 2018 but I didn't like the composition so I moved it to the next card, which was created using two patterned papers. Then, I added some thread and a butterfly embellishment.

Grow Together

Since this is an opening spread to my family's new year, the "Grow Together" sentiment was perfect.

Happy Family

I used a rosette from the Valentine collection and just removed the Valentine themed sentiment and added a gold sequin. I placed it ocer layers of paper, tags and a sticker.

#awesome

I created a sequin pocket for this cute little frame. I added some sequins to a small jewelry bag, placing a few in the bag using glue dots so they didn't all fall down to the bottom. Using my fuse tool, I made the bag to the right size of the paper frame. More tips on this can be found on my Instagram (@heatherleopard).

Gold mailer

I included an ampersand on the last pocket to show that our 2018 story will continue throughout the pages of the album. I was even able to align it so that the bubble wrap dots create a "..." after the ampersand.

So that's how I created my resolutions page to kick off my 2018 album.

Tell me, do you do yearly albums and if so, do you create a page for each year?

xoxo,
Heather (@heatherleopard on social media)
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Supplies:
Heart of Home
Girl Squad
Forever My Always
Merry Merry Gold Glitter on Kraft Paper (733725)

Spring Creek Mining | October Afternoon Guest Designer

I am so excited to be back up on the October Afternoon blog today. I’ve been having so much fun creating with the Daily Flash collections. I used the bits and pieces of the summertime collection to create a 12x12 layout which you can see HERE. This week I created some life spreads using the photo sleeves and the new Snapshots collection.

I have to admit that I got a little carried away with the various picture and card options and ended up created 2 complete page spreads for one event but, that’s what’s so nice about this. I was able to scrap all my favorite photos of my daughter’s first gem mining moment.

When I’m documenting a moment in time, I usually only use between 1 - 3 photo on a spread and that is what gets scrapped. With Daily Flash, I can scrap those main photos and also include the others that help tell the story.

I started by choosing two photos that would end up getting scrapped on their own page, one each side of the paper and then matched up the right cards to the various sleeves and printed the photos to the sleeve size.

I scrapped this page like I would any other, knowing that the 1st coordinating page could hold my title and journaling. I had fun layering papers, cards blurbs and snap caps. I create a sort of mini title using the

Daily Flash roller stamp.

I still had a lot of photos that help show the progression from sifting the pebbles and sand through the water to finding the gems so I created a 2nd spread.

I snapped this photo of my perfect little gem showing off her perfect little gems and added it over more layers of papers, cards and blurbs. I did all my stitching on this page and the other side before I actually adhered it to the layout so that the stitching wouldn’t show through on the other side of the paper.

Finally, I added additional journaling cards and card sentiments that when read together almost form another title on their own. I outlined some of the cards with washi tape, as I did on the title card in the 1st spread.

I added final touches by hand-stitching over a few speech bubble cards and added my journaling.

Thanks for joining me again this week. I'd love to have you visit me over on the October Afternoon blog today as well. Head on over there and let them know what you think!

Project Life: School Fun Run

I've started a mini version of Project Life for each of my girls. It will be focused on school activities. I plan to do one for each year for them.  I am calling it a mini version of Project Life because I'm using the 6x8 Simple Stories Snap products. I have a pink one for the littlest since she's in preschool and loves pink. I'm doing the red album for my oldest gal. She's in 3rd grade and her school colors are red/blue.

I loaded up on supplies from the Paper Issues store and you can too! And if you use the Promo Code HEATHER at check-out you can save 20% on your entire order. Anyway, back to the album.

Paper Issues teamed up with Amanda Rose stamps for this week's mini blog hop. I got to play with the One Little Word...Recorded stamp and the bestie stamp! Oh my goodness, they were so fun and they stamped so nicely. I can totally see myself making cards, tags, layouts, you name it, with these stamps.

Take a look at my Project Life pages about the Boosterthon Fun Run at my daughter's school and then keep reading to see how you can get your hands on these fabulous stamps.

Supplies: Simple Stories Snap album, page protectors, Snappy Thoughts, Snappy Cards and Snappy Pages from the Paper Issues store

Did I mention that Cassie's Paper Issues Store has just about every scrapbooking supply you need (or don't need but really want!)? Everything is 20% every day off when you use my code - HEATHER - at checkout.

GIVEAWAY

Amanda will be giving away stamps to 3 different winners!!! Here's what you need to do to enter to win:

1. Do the mini blog hop and feel free to follow our blogs if you like what you see ;)
2. Follow Paper Issues on Facebook
3. Follow the Amanda Rose blog
4. Leave a Comment on the Paper Issues blog that you did both.
5. Link up a project on the Paper Issues blog for a bonus entry! Any project - how easy is that?

If you want the stamps NOW, you can always buy them. Amanda's running a buy 2, get 1 FREE deal! Get the details on the Paper Issues blog!

Now, go checkout what these amazing ladies did with their stamps and Project Life:

Heather <--you are="are" here="here" you--="you--">

Judean: http://sukeydookiedoo.blogspot.com/

Missy: http://www.missygener.com/

Kellie: http://www.kelliewinnell.com.au/

Aimee: http://aimeesarmoire.typepad.com/aimees-armoire/

Good luck!