Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Creative Genealogy Scrapbooking #46...I'm so glad you're my DAD!

Hello....Hello...again!!!
Buddy is down for his nap....so I am playing catch on the blog!!!  YEAH!!!

Rowena at Creative Genealogy Scrapbooking,  has another amazing sketch for you this week.  When I first saw it, thought...humm....I will stamp the circles on....but the realized I didn't have any circle stamps or circle punches.  So I really had to think.  So I ended up recreating the layout on the Cricut Studio Design and cut out the circles with the Cricut!! 

I wanted to keep the page simple and yet manly....and so I used Curtain Call Color Challenge, which worked really well in keeping the colors neutral and manly.  None of the colors over powered one another and the focus was still on the picture.

So now, I thought the hard part was over....YEAH right!!  Deciding on a title is always a challenge for me.  A picture can say so many things...and this picture of Patrick has so many memories to it, but I loved it for Buddy's album.  So I started going through my dashboard and saw that Verve Stamps was having a Project Parade and the theme was 'Something Old, Something New'.  I knew that I had an old set from Verve and a new one that I recently acquired and I did. 1) Father Figure...I love this stamp and I love the quote, so I cut the quote into strips and stamped it in between the circles, the title and subtitle all came from the same set. For the next stamp 2) Blue Skies, I used the scroll for the corner of the page.

There you have it!!! It was a lot of work putting this page together, but it sure was well worth it.  Everything came out just the way I wanted it to, too!!!  So here is the page, you've been hearing so much about!!!!




















I will be entering this layout in the following challenges:
-The Shabby Tea Room: Week #27: Fresh Living
-Verve Stamp- Project Parade (Something Old, Something New)
-Curtian Call Color Challenge: {Act 47}

So I hope that I have inspired you in someway to give this weeks sketch challenge a try and I look forward to visiting your blog to see what you've created.


Hugs,
Calypso

8 comments :

  1. what a fabulous scrap book page, perfect for your Dad...have a fantastic day!

    enjoy *~*

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  2. WOW, you put a lot of thought into this layout! I love it's clean and simple style! Thanks for sharing with us in the Tea Room!

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  3. This is adorable! What a perfect take on that sketch challenge! And I love the natural color palette you used. Also love how you mixed the journaling in among the circles on the left.
    Thanks for joining us this week at TSTR.

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  4. What a fun page! Love how you incorporated the stamps.

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  5. I just LOVE this page! It is definitely manly and perfect for that pic of your Dad!

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  6. great page! Love the clean and simple style! Thanks for playing along with us at TSTR! :)

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  7. Wonderful job on this masculine page! I love the rows of circles framing your great picture. Thanks for joining us at the Curtain Call!

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  8. cool page! thanks for playing the Curtain Call!

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