I just recreated one of my favorite layouts. I used the sketch above I made based on a layout I'd seen in a friend's layouts. She used it to display funny sayings her child had said as a little kid. I took a picture of my kids and used the title word 'SIBLINGS'. I then used each journal strip to show a quote about siblings. They alternate beween brother and sister quotes. Some of my favorites are: "When parents don't understand, a brother always will." "Being a brother is even better than being a superhero." and "Your sister knows when you've been bad or good."
I bought a HUGE pastel page kit at Walmart. They had it for $19.99 and it was said to be valued at $120. I kept passing on it because I like pastels, but there was enough to make an entire album worth of layouts and I didn't know if I liked pastels THAT much. Well, when they clearanced it out to $4, of course I snapped it up. I've used quite a bit of it for spring swaps I worked on the past few months, but there is still more to go around. I don't know if I have many more pastel layouts in me. LOL. It seriously came with 50+ pages, 100s of stickers, chipboard pieces, titles, diecuts, 3D embellishments, etc. Despite the fact that I'm not terribly impressed by pastels in my layouts, this is one of my very favorites because I've never done anything quite like it. I loved it so much I had to make this duplicate layout twice. One for each kid's album.
When we were in Orlando last year we took the kids to Universal and I of course had to buy them the Thing 1 and Thing 2 tee shirts. If you've met my kids, you'd know how perfect it is. LOL. I stuck with a red, black and white to match the shirts. This is a digital layout for our 11 x 8 1/2 landscape album. Below is the sketch I attempted to follow but ran out of room for journaling. I didn't really have anything to say about it anyway. LOL. The picture speaks for itself.
My father in law took my son fishing. He's the only person in the family that enjoys it as much as Nick does. I promise he does inspite of that look on his face. LOL. This is a digital layout for our landscape 11 x 8 1/2 book. I used a blue back ground then used a wire/mesh panel to add contrast. I thought it looked like a fishing net, so it fit. I did follow a sketch, but I changed some things up a bit. I didn't journal and I moved the title to the left. I also put the focal photo on the bottom rather than in the middle. I still thought it was a great sketch so I thought I'd share it.
