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Another sample layout with sketch 33
The background paper was created in photoshop and I chose to add my journaling to the space on the right side this time.
I’ve used the large space with a large photo as the background and five smaller sunset images grouped on the right.
This multi-photo layout uses our recently published scrapbooking sketch 33.
We visited our niece just after Christmas and her daughters (aged 6, 4 and 15 months) had a whale of a time putting on a ’show’ for us: dancing, singing and telling stories. We had a lovely time with them, and were reminded how difficult it can be to have a conversation with young children around 
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This baby scrapbook layout uses our sketch #32 and some very cute little characters from Erica Hite’s Bouncing Baby Girl scrapbook collection from ScrapGirls.
I loved this story from Isabella: She received an email from her daughter a few months back with a photo of her grand daughter lying across her cot, and the excited exclamation, “I didn’t put her down that way!”
A couple of hours later more photographs arrived showing her grand daughter had turned right round and was lying with her head at the bottom of the cot. The first indication that Emily Joy was on the move – when no one is looking, of course!
This Christmas Dreaming layout uses free scrapbooking embellishments from ScrapGirls and Photoshop Elements. As a regular ScrapGirls newsletter reader I get a freebie with each issue, and since that is six times a week my free embellishments quickly mount up. The newsletter has layout samples, tips and frequent tutorials, so in the current climate of price increases and salary decreases it’s a winning combination for any scrapper.
Our sample layout using sketch 31 shows photos from three 21st birthday celebrations – all for the same lucky guy!
Isabella said, “As my husband travelled a lot when the children were at school we would have family celebrations on the Sunday nearest each birthday so we could all celebrate together. Although he was no longer doing this by the time 21st birthdays came around, the children were off at college or working, so we kept the tradition of special family celebrations on Sundays. So celebrating with family, celebrating on the actual day with those family members around, and celebrating with friends at a local restaurant were all part of the fun. Oh, and there was another with friends at college, but I don’t have any photos from that one, lol!”
This wedding layout uses a variation of scrapbooking sketch #26. The original had 5 photos, and this one has three times that – 15 across a two-page spread. The original grouping was kept and it was turned and duplicated along the two pages.
We like to give a sample scrapbook page or two using each of our free sketch templates. This one uses scrapbooking sketch 30.
We do this in two stages because of the feedback you gave us a while back. Some of you said you like to get samples and others don’t, so to keep everyone happy the sketch appears first and then the sample layout a few days later.
Here is a sample layout made with scrapbooking sketch #29.
It’s a much busier style than I normally make but the kit had such fun elements that reflected the fun-loving nature of my Mum that it seemed to fit. (Mum’s the one in the back row of the photo making bunny ears behind the foreman, lol!)
A new take on a ‘before and after’ scrapbooking page; yet another layout with scrapbooking sketch #27.
Isabella decided to use her daughter’s two ultrasound photographs along with two taken when her grand daughter was the same number of weeks old, post birth: 12 weeks and 20 weeks of age in both cases.
Another in the series of scrapbook layouts, Hangin’ Out in a Bloom, is a simple two-photograph layout with paper borders and minimum embellishments.
I’d been admiring these wonderful irises aware there were several large bumble bees flying around. When I uploaded the photos I was thrilled to see I’d captured a bee on the flower. plus another on it’s way, it’s wings fluttering so fast it looks like a bundle of fluff suspended in the air. (Larger photo below.) [click to continue…]