Hey everyone, welcome to Day 1 of the Crafty Friends Blog hop for Altenew. I am so excited to be a friend and fan of the amazing company Altenew. You possibly arrived here from Kristina's blog, thanks so much for stopping by and joining in on this hop!
Here is the layout that I have created to share with you today.
Todays layout focus' on the things I love most; gorgeous papers and embellishments and storytelling. I am a big advocate for getting my stories (however short) onto my pages. I think that is the root of my passion for scrapbooking really; documenting our everyday. I have memories of going through photos after my grandparents passed and thinking to myself; who is in those photos, what are they doing, where were they? etc. Sometimes I would be lucky enough to find a small handwritten name on the back of a photo and a year. That was like finding gold and was few and far between. I think to myself how much I would love to be able to read the stories about what things were like in those photographs of my family in the past. To me, what I am doing is special, and even if it is not appreciated by those around me now, I am sure long after I am gone and my children are older it will be. That's the hope anyway and the big drive behind why I do what I do. Can anyone else relate to this?
My kiddies are growing up so quick. These photos were taken on a recent family trip away. The town we went to was having a big festival for the weekend. We went on a 'farm hop' and visited a few of the local farms in the area who opened their doors to the public on this day. This particular farm had free range chickens and produced eggs. The kids absolutely loved the baby chicks and spent so much time with them picking them up and talking to them. It was so adorable.
I used the Our Family scrapbook kit available in the Altenew store to document this page. I did mix it a little with the Reflections kit too as I couldnt help but add in some of it's embellishments.
The journaling for this page is not too detailed, but detailed enough that you know the who, what and where of these photos.
The main feature of the page is a fussy cut floral from one of the patterned papers in the kit. I decided to only incorporate part of the design and make a feature of it on my page; nestling my photos within the florals and the journaling in the negative space. The colours within this kit were the perfect match to the colours within the photos. That can sometimes be a tough feat when you are wanting to use particular products on a layout.
I used a combination of regular tape adhesive; I use the Altenew tape runner (its so quick and easy) and a foam adhesive to add a pop of dimension. I included the wood cranes in this layout, I know they are not chickens ha - but I took some crafty licence and figured there were birds so added them to a couple of places on the page.
You will notice that I have three main areas of embellishments on my layout. One to the top right of the page next to the photo, one on the bottom left of the left side photo and one where the journaling is. I tend to create all layouts with this 'three' clusters rule and adding them to the layout in a way that forms a triangle. This helps to guide your eyes from one spot on the layout to another and so on, giving you a reading/viewing path on my page.
Anyways enough from me, onto the amazing details of how you can join in and win!
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Prizes for this Hop
Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 5 lucky winners and one Altenew Academy class to 5 lucky winners. There are also 12 awesome friends who are celebrating with us, and they are offering the following prizes:
My Sweet Petunia: 3 MISTI stamping tools(Memory, Original, and Mini)
Jennifer McGuire Ink: Altenew $50 gift certificate & 10 handmade cards
Online Card Classes: 3 class spots
Create and Craft TV: £50 gift certificate
Ellen Hutson LLC: $30 gift certificate
Chameleon Art Products: 1 pack of 5 Chameleon Pens
Stamp & Scrapbook Expo: $25 gift certificate
Butterfly Reflections Ink: $25 gift certificate
Simon Says Stamp: $25 gift certificate
Scrapbook & Cards Today Magazine: 2 copies of Scrapbook & Cards Today Fall 2018 issue
Scrapbook.com: $25 gift certificate
Tombow USA: 1 pack of 10 Dual Brush Pens
Be sure to leave comments on all the blog posts by Sunday, December 9th, 2018 for a chance to win! 37 winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on all of the blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog on December 15th, 2018. How cool is that!!!!!
You can also win a $20 gift certificate just by commenting here on my blog. I will announce a winner by 12/9/2018.
Blog Hop Order:
Altenew Card Blog
Jennifer McGuire
May Sukyong Park
My Sweet Petunia
Kathy Racoosin
Norine Borys
Chameleon Art Products
Svitlana Shayevich
Kristina Pokazanieva
Raquel Bowman - You are here *****
Keeway Tsao
Butterfly Reflections Ink
Virginia Lu
Laura Jane
Simon Says Stamp
Lilith Eeckels
Dana Gong
Alex Syberia
Stamp & Scrapbook Expo
Zinia Redo
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Zsoka Marko
Meghann Andrew
Kay Miller
Thanks so much for popping by today, you're next stop is Keeway Tsao's blog.
Raquel xxx
219 comments
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 219 of 219Nice color story. Soft colors.
That is a beautiful layout. I know your children will enjoy your scrapbooks when they grow up. I wish I had had the mindset to do this. I did put together a photo book for each son one Christmas with their own pictures of them growing up. They said it was the best gift they ever received.
Oh My! This layout is TOTAL CUTENESS!
The water colors are so beautiful and so fun to do. Your card creations are fantastic.
Love those beautiful, vibrant colors.
Gorgeous layout!
Your layout is awesome and I like the little "chicks" lol, they do the job. I am with you on wishing someone had at least written something on the back of so many old family photos that I have that I will never know anything about or even who is in the photo in many of them. It is so wonderful you do these layouts for your children, they will definitely appreciate it one day and their children will also. Thank you for the inspiration! (mardy14@bellsouth.net)
Beautiful scrapbook page! Love that Altenew products are so versatile to be able to use them in so many different ways! I have the first beautiful scrap kit that they came out with, but haven’t scrapbooked recently, but I may have to get to it after seeing the beautiful pages!
Cuteness overloaded
Such a lovely layout.
Beautiful layout! I love yhe florals and your kids are such cuties :)
Beautiful page!!
Adorable layout! Thanks for the inspiration.
Lovely layout! Thank you so much for sharing!
Adorable layout! I love the watercolor look that you gave your stamped images. Very pretty.
Your cards are totally cute
Love this layout!
Pretty colors on this layout. Thanks for sharing this inspiration with these fun products.
Sweet picture on this beautiful page! Love the colors and embellishments!
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