1977 Layout

I love holiday weekends!  This one in particular was great since it gave me a chance to do some scrapbooking as well as spending extra time with my family.  I'll share some of the projects I made with you through out the week.

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I've been digging through the old photos I rescued out of my Mom's magnetic photo albums & decided to scan some so I could scrapbook them.  These photos are of my Mom & me (I think I'm about 2 years old in the photos - 1977).  Even though the photos aren't great I love the bright colors & our interaction.  If you'd like to see any of these photos larger, just click on them.

There's a few techniques that I used on this layout.

-I made that flower out of some fabric I had on hand. 

-I painted around the edge of each photo with a metallic paint and then inked them with black ink.  

-I embossed with black embossing powder a Unity Stamp onto the Hambly transparency.

-I used acrylic paint underneath a rub-on to make it stand out.  Although I've done that a lot previously you can see that for some reason the paint stuck to the rub-on backing & peeled up some...which I'm ok with.  It also caused a happy accident since the "only" didn't rub-on well, I just used my labeler to cover it up...I like it even better.

-I used a sketch from PageMaps for this layout.

-I also used my sewing machine to stitch around the 8.5x11 piece of cardstock as well as the smaller piece under the photos.  I ended up removing the thread on the 8.5x11 paper to just leave the holes.

Supplies: American Crafts Cardstock, Hambly transparency, Unity Stamp, Heather Baily Rub-on, Prima Bling, Prima Brads, American Crafts Letter Rub-ons, Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher Staples, Thread, Ink, Labels, Paint