On Wednesday evening (very late) my ex-partner informed me that seeing as I was "the scrapbooker of the family and better at telling stories [than him]" I was to complete 2 pages in our son Kade's childcare scrapbook. Oh, and I had to have it done to return to childcare on Friday morning.
Apparently the room Kade is in has a toy frog called Galumph, and each of the children takes turns taking Galumph home for a few nights. The parents then have to write up two pages describing what Galumph did during his 'holiday' with the child. Easy enough ??
Well...if you're a regular to the blog, you'll know that I have done absolutely nothing scrap-related in forever !! Add to the fact that I have lost my scrapping mojo, I've been sick for the past week, and my printer is also out of action...which meant a trip to the shops to print off a few photos that I could normally have done myself at home. BUT, I couldn't let Kade down, and I knew I wouldn't be happy simply cutting some photos into shapes and adding some journalling. So....I scraplifted.
THIS is the original layout, and this is my creation (click the pictures to have them open bigger in a new window):
And can you believe that of the hundreds of sheets of patterned paper I have, I didn't have any black & white striped paper !? I ended up using a chisel-tipped Zig Marker to draw lines on white cardstock. The alpha stickers I used for the title were lime green, so I used a marker to change them to black before peeling them from the backing paper.
The scalloped edges were all cut freehand using my Fingertip Knife and I used my Fiskars Acrylic Stamp Block to stamp the frame around the title at the top of page 1. Other tools I used were my Personal Trimmer and Microtip Scissors.
Well done Cindy - looks great.
Posted by: Karen | July 30, 2010 at 02:45 PM
great to see you posting again Cindy.....gorgeous work....and thank you for sharing this with us.......
xox
Lyn
Posted by: Lyn Dwyer | July 30, 2010 at 04:58 PM
awesome Cin just like always you are so talented
miss you
Posted by: scott young | August 06, 2010 at 10:33 AM