It’s National Scrapbooking Day!

Hello! Today is National Scrapbooking Day. Are you scrapbooking? If not you should because Our Craft Lounge has a fun Scrapbooking blog hop going on today and invites you to scrap along with us. Hopefully you just came from Kendra Wietstock, if not, head back to The Lounge and start from the beginning.

So what kind of scrapbooker are you? I consider myself (for right now at least) a clean and simple one. I don’t like much on my pages to take away from my pictures because to me that should be my focal point. I’m not big on journaling or titles unless a page really calls for it. I like my pictures to tell the story as you will see from my two pages I created.

This is a 12x12 page. First we have Daddy and Benjamin working on their first ever Pinewood Derby Car and I used the set Nailed It by Our Craft Lounge. I colored the tools with copics and cut them out and attached them with glue dots.


I embossed the nuts in sliver in the corners of the page. Sprayed some green Glimmer Mist on the background for some texture. This page I would like to put a title but have no clue what. Any suggestions would be welcomed!



I will admit I’m not that happy with this page.(That glimmer mist really looks bad in the picture but believe me, it isn’t that bad in real life, that’s what I get for taking pictures late at night!)  I had a major sinus headache while trying to do the layout and once I started it..well I had to finish it and this is the results. I’m really embarrassed to have even put it up but if we can’t show our “nasty” work, how would we ever survive? But never fear as I love how my second page turned out!

For my second 12x12 page I used the stamp set Butterfly Kisses by Our Craft Lounge. The picture I used is of my daughter (all in blue) and a group of friends on a field trip to Marmon Valley Farm last spring. The lady in the middle was our tour guide. This is one of my favorite pictures from that day. I changed the picture to black and white and brought back only the blue color. I wanted the block wording in the set as my background so I tore a piece of paper to use as my mask and stamped the wording in distress ink just in the middle of the page.


Used two different Spellbinders to cut my pattern paper, border punch for my strip and just a small single strip cut to lay across the border.



I stamped the dandelions right onto the picture and off on to the paper. Colored the butterfly with copics and added some Brown Sugar Sparkly Fluff to it here and there. Attached it using glue dots just down the middle of it’s body and added some bling underneath for motion.

Now head on over to Latrice Murphy to see her scrapbook page.

And don’t forget:

*that anyone who creates and leaves a link (using inlinkz.com at the bottom of the OCL post) on The Lounge blog post will have a chance to win a free stamp set
*DT girls will vote on which creation will win
*everyone who leaves a comment on The Lounge blog post will be entered to win a stamp set
*winners will be posted on Monday, May 9th


           Thanks for stopping by!

                          Amber