Summer Promenade

It’s now the 15th, so I can share my Scrapbook Essentials Design Team work, using the January “Summer Promenade” kit:

IT’S A BOY THING

The papers in the kit were perfect for these photos, taken at the Army Museum in Waiouru on the way down to Wellington last month. I already had the chipboard “It’s a Boy Thing” title and it just worked for the theme of this page. I used the chipboard star strip from the kit as a template to trace around and cut out a fancy “edge” from the patterned paper.

Journalling: It’s true. Boys are fascinated with guns and blowing stuff up. At the Army Museum in Waiouru, Ethan, Tyler AND Rob ran straight for this cannon and then played “shoot ‘em up” games!

BEACH FUN

I cut a corner design from one of the papers, and copied the flowers & patterns from it to make a co-ordinating transparency for the opposite corner. I painted the flowers onto the transparency with acrylic paints and turned it upside down so the paint wouldn’t scratch off. Then I used staples and stitching (using the Bazzill stitching template) to adhere the transparency to the page.

Journalling: Ethan: loves to get totally covered in sand!

SUMMER 07/08

I used the circle patterned paper and continued with the circle theme by tracing around a sand bucket and cutting out the circle from one of the other papers. I got my photos printed with 4 photos per 6×4, and kept the white borders — I wanted to capture lots of little aspects of our summer. I used some embroidery thread to stitch “accents” over the foam letter stickers.

Journalling: There are so many cool things to love about our summer and living near the beach. We are so enjoying swims, picnics, fish & chips, summer fruit and long hot days!

SWING

I just loved the bright summery colours in this kit, and wanted to highlight them by using B&W photos. I cut some stars from the chipboard strip, and used them at the top & bottom of the page. Also used heaps of the rub-ons. For the title “Swing”, I traced around the foam alpha stickers, and then cut out the letters.

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