It's the 25th of the month, which always means Blog Hop time at Papertrey Ink!
Nichole challenged us this month with this:
You can see the details of the blog hop and participate over on Nichole's blog - here.Pull out your letter stamps and alphabet dies and create something monogrammed! It can be a gift for someone special or a treat to keep for yourself! You could monogram a set of notecards, stationery, coasters, journals, home decor or anything else you can dream up!
So, I dream of scrapbooking - during the day, during the night - most of the time, it's on my mind. Even though I spend a lot of time making cards or doing 1,000,001 other things - scrapbooking was my first love, and the love to which I will always return.
As usual, I'm behind in my scrapbooking - this time, almost a year. I created a title page layout for my son's 1st grade scrapbook. Here it is:
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| PTI Supplies: New Leaf cardstock, Block Alphabet, Seeing Stars, Simple Circles border dies |
This is his Spring picture from around this time last year. It's one of my favorite he's ever taken, so I wanted it highlighted on the title page. I kept with the monogram theme with which Nichole challenged us by adding his initials in the stars as part of the title. I even researched monograms and found that the common format for monograms for males is to use their initials in order of their names.
To continue with this scrapbook means I have to reverse time and start scrapping the summer of 2011. I'll get there. I need to just focus on doing some clean and simple layouts and not get too bogged down in design and embellishments. After all, they are for me to enjoy, right?(Does anyone else think of Major Monogram from Phineas and Ferb when they hear the word "monogram?" Ahh, the life of a mother with a boy!)
For the layout, I used this sketch from the Core'dinations blog, which is new to me. I discovered it when I was perusing one of my crafty friend's Pinterest pages. Thanks, Kristin!
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20 comments:
Love your page layout, and adorable son!
Super cute scrapbook page, and darling picture.
Your layout looks great!
I love your layout! Such great colors together. Your son is SO handsome!
Scrapbooking was my first love too. I'm trying to get back into it with Project Life. It's helping me catch up quickly. Have you seen PL?
great scrapbook page - love the colours.
My how your son has grown. This is a great page Lee Anne
Sweet layout, love how you used your son's initials!
Perfect layout for a precious boy! Great job!
Cool layout. Great work.
Great layout! Love how you incorporated the mongram.
Great scrapbooking layout, Lee Anne! I'm glad I'm not the only one who made a layout for the challenge (scrapbooking is my first love, too.)
I love the letters in the stars and how you used the simple circles diecuts for the rest of the title!
This is just Darling! LOVE the photo and LOVE the monogram! He will cherish this page when he gets older!
So perfect! You are a marvelous scrapper, Lee Anne! Rusty's getting so big!
Perfect layout to use a monogram on!
This is so sweet! What a precious memory! Love the photo too! He's so cute! I can relate as mine is in first! :-)
Great layout showcasing your super adorable son. Thanks for the inspiration.
Great scrapbook page!! I really like the idea of the monogram in the stars!
Your layout is awesome Lee Ann! I know you said this is a year old but man has he gotten big! So adorable! Time goes by so fast! Hope all is well! Hugs!!
Great layout - love the combination of the stars and circles for the title and the monogram stars. Nice!
Such a cute layout! I love the initials on the layered stars :)
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