Spring Fling!

So yesterday was a little too hectic for my taste and before I knew it the day was gone and there was no page posted!  So here is my page for the day, and in honor of the gloomy weather I decided to go with something super springy.

I think these pictures are really fun because I love action shots!  One of my favorite things to do with my camera is to set it on multi-shot and just push the button down.  It's the very best way to get really great candids and you never know when you'll get the perfect picture and not even realize it.  Once again I took way more pictures than I could fit on a layout, so I had to pare it down and try to make it fit.

Every one of the pictures is smaller than a standard 4x6 size, with some of them half that size and the pictures in the filmstrip the smallest.

At first I wanted to put the pictures in the filmstrip in order so it looked like a moving picture, but since I had way too many, I only did it for the small pictures in the top right.  I love the use of the filmstrip to include a lot of photos!

The paper is some coordinating paper from Hobby Lobby (Paper Studio)--I love it because it takes all the guesswork out of matching the paper.

I cut the various sizes of circles using my Sizzix and a circle die cut. I love the idea of lots of circles with the page because it matches so well with the frisbees and giant ball. The ribbon is American Crafts, and the 3D bugs are Paper Bliss.  The word Fling is made with sticker letters from Doodlebug and I cut summer with a Sizzix alphabet.

Some people shy away from pink paper, especially when they are dealing mostly with pictures of boys, but it is such a fun spring color for everyone that it definitely has it's place so don't be afraid to use it!

On another note, we are coming close to the end of our "30 days of pages" and have some fun new ideas for future posts, including a page kit giveaway, which we are hoping to have ready to go next week!

Sock Hop

I love the 50's...even though I didn't even live during that decade.  It reminds me of one of my favorite movies of all time--Grease!  (Although I showed it to my kids and they were appalled that I could call it one of my favorites because technically it isn't all that nice...but what can I say?)

My daughter's church group had a daddy/daughter Sock Hop.  All the dads and girls dressed in their best 50's attire and it turned out really fun...and out of it I got these cute pictures!  She went with her best friend and her dad, which was also fun for her.



Aside from the plain colored cardstock, all the patterned paper on this page is from Paper Studio and I got it at Hobby Lobby.  I love Paper Studio's coordinating regular paper--the price is good and it's all so cute!  The ribbon is also Paper Studio and was intended to go with the paper, so all the matching was super easy.  The letters for the title are glitter chipboard letters from Scrapworks, and the little musical notes were buttons that I cut the shank off of so they would lay flat.

These cute records aren't really scrapbooking supplies--they are from the party store and part of a long garland decoration that my sister bought for her son's birthday party.  Once the party was over, we cut the garland apart to use for just such an occasion as this.  They are super cute and no, they are not acid free but I'm just not all that concerned about it sometimes.

One of her leaders took lots of pictures of the event and emailed them to all the parents, so I managed to get these little pictures of the party that I could add to the page.  I matted them in white so you could see them better.  They aren't quite as small as they seem, but it is a little hard to see all the people in them.  However, my choice was to put them on small or leave them off altogether, and I didn't want to do that.

I just recently bought the Nifty Fifties Cricut cartridge...it's time for another Sock Hop!  Or maybe she should get a part in the play Grease...as long as she only plays Patty Simcox...