Layout Update #10

Happy Monday dear crafty friends. We are on the last layout for this series. Did you enjoy it? Did it inspire you to pull some older layouts and find inspiration from them? For this last one, I am pulling inspiration from this layout...

I used to really try to save my scrapbook papers. I try to find many different ways of using papers sparingly but make it look like there's a lot of it in a layout. 

I liked the circles and I used the above layout as a sketch inspiration. I don't scrimp and save all my pattern papers, but I still like the circle accents and it fit this particular story with floating down the river. 

Here's the process video...

And some close ups...

 Thank you for stopping by. 

Happy Creating!

-Grace

Layout Update #9

Hello crafty friends. We are nearing the end of this series. It's always kind of bittersweet when I'm close to ending a series. And looking back, I'm always grateful for the ideas that I tried to see through. I'm always growing through these self imposed challenges. For this one, I noticed that I used to really like to frame some thing important on my layout with embellishments. Whether that's flowers or stickers. 

So for this particular layout, I decided to recreate those "frames" and used numbers to match the year that my children are going to be start in this first day of school layout. 

Here's the process video....

And some close ups....

Thank you for stopping by.

Happy Creating

-Grace

 

Layout Update #8

Hello friends and happy first week of December. Can you believe it? One of my favorite "oldie but a goodie" layout is the following....

There's so many things that I love about this page. The most valuable is the journaling list of our favorites. I thought I'd try to recreate that. I didn't have random photos to put together. But I did have some Valentine's pictures and thought I'd do my journaling of what I love about this specific memory. 

And here's the video process....

Here are some close ups as well....

 Thank you for stopping by. 

Happy Creating

-Grace

Layout Update #7

Back in the day I liked to create my own background papers, such as in this page...

And so I tried to make my own snowy background on this new page...

And here's the process video...

And some close ups...

Thank you for stopping by. 

Happy Creating.

-Grace

 

Layout Update #6

Happy Monday before Thanksgiving everyone. Thank you for stopping by and checking out my latest layout. This new one was inspired by the following page....

I used to utilize vellum a lot on my pages and so I wanted to update that technique with my newer butterfly punch and vellum. Here's my updated layout....

And here's the process...

And here's the close ups...

 Thank you for stopping by and advance Happy Thanksgiving. 

Happy Creating

-Grace

Layout Update #5

It's been fun working on this series. I love looking through my old layouts, not only because they bring back special memories, but they also remind me of some techniques that I used to love. One such example is the distressing like on this page. 

I took that idea and made some handmade ornaments using embossing folders and inking. 

Here's the video process....

And here's the close ups....

Thank you for stopping by. 

Happy Creating. 

-Grace

 

Layout Update #4

 

Happy Monday friends and welcome to November. For this latest "layout update series" post, I was inspired by the following old layout. I used to do a lot of word/letter stamping and also adding quotes. So I wanted to incorporate that in my newest page. 

Here's the result....

And here's the video...

And some close ups....

I hope this inspired you to pull out your letter stamps and add some quote into your next page. 

Happy creating. 

-Grace

Layout Update Video #3

Hello friends. We are just rolling along with my latest scrapbook series. Has it inspired you to dig through some older creations and "update" them? I hope so. For this latest one, I'm pulling one of my go-to tools back in the day. And it is the letter stencils. But I'm updating them with current trends. 

Here's the process video and also some close up shots...

Thank you for stopping by. Have a great weekend. 

-Grace