Rhymes with Orange

I never really realized I had a color nemesis until I started this layout.  You see, I'd been watching a Glitter Girl episode about picking papers and not picking the most dominant colors, so I wanted to avoid green and blue for this page.  When I printed the journaling card with the orange arrow, I knew that color would work well with the photos.  But I think this is my first and only orange layout. It's a color that doesn't always work, but I think in this case it really works!  The Crate Paper paper let me pull in the greens and blues as accents, which helped it all be cohesive.

Englischer Garden

Sketch: Sketches for Scrapbooking Vol. 6

Supplies: Cosmo Cricket Ever After (orange swirl and white with orange blossoms); Lily Bee Catching Fall (Flannel Sheets); Crate Paper Portrait (Bouquet), Chipboard stickers, Phrases stickers (Toy Box, Restoration), Rub Ons (Restoration), Border Stickers; Fun Day Journaling Card by Marcy Penner; K and Co Smash Pad, die cuts (Julianne Vintage); Adorn It Sticker Paper (Velvet Tan Dots); Jillibean Soup Kraft mini alpha; My Minds Eye Diecut Lost and Found Two Rosy "Ordinary" Title; Heidi Swapp Flocked Rub Ons; Pink Paislee Parisian Anthology dimensions corrugated elements; Recollections Adhesive Rhinestone flourish; Making Memories Metal Sayings (family); Bo Bunny Layered Chipboard; Studio AE for Technique Tuesday ("Are we there yet"); Jenni Bowlin Ink (Seed Packet, Weather Vane); Tim Holtz Distress Ink; Martha Stewart punches (Starburst, Quilted by the Each)

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New Layouts, Old Photos

Like most scrapbookers, I have a backlog of pictures to scrap.  Taking classes at Big Picture has helped get my butt in gear and scrap some of these older photos.  That's a good thing, because I got all of my childhood albums from my mom, and I want to scan and scrap them.  (Let this be a lesson to you -- take your photos out of those old magnetic albums, if you can, and burn those horrible magnetic pages!!  Photos grow to them over time!)

This one is from 2006:

To the Top!

Nic Howard taught us how to do these neat faux pleats in the Color?  Or is it Colour? class.

Products Used:

DCWV - cardstock; Core'dinations - cardstock; unknown swiss dot paper; Jillibean Soup - patterned paper; Adorn It/Carolee's Creations - patterned paper; Creative Imaginations - transparency, sticker; Ranger - stickles; Queen and Company - flowers

Tools Used:

Tim Holtz tiny attacher; Martha Stewart punch; Silhouette - title and flourish; American Crafts slick writer