Senior Night

I used the Mosaic Moments system for my next 2 page layout.  I had 13 photos I wanted to use so I scanned the Mosaic Moments Pattern Gallery & found Pattern #601.  The left page followed the pattern but the right page was turned.

I decided to use "Board Shorts" from Mosaic Moments' Summer Grid Paper Collection.  I love the different colors & they were a good fit for my photos.  I wanted to mat the photos but couldn't find the right color cardstock.  I used white but it was so stark against the bright colors.  I inked the edges with Tim Holtz Distress Broken China & Twisted Citron ink.  It's a little hard to see in the photo but it was just enough color.  The title & journaling were printed using Word's Comic Sans MS font.

I love doing Mosaic Moments layouts because I can use a lot of photos so I'll be doing more using this system.  I also have a lot of their dies so I'm hoping to use some of the specialty dies in my next layouts!

TFL!

Outdoor Concert

This is my first Mosaic Moments layout in many years.  I had forgotten how much fun it was to do them.  I mostly made kits except for one I did using a crossword puzzle theme & a couple of other that I cut by hand before there were dies! 

The patterns I used called for basic sets A & B plus the 4x6 grid die for 1" squares.  All of these sets are in the colorized Mosaic Moments Basic Bundles Die Sets.  The 4x6 Grid Die cuts 24 1" squares but the nice part is they don't cut all the way so you don't lose the pattern whether you're cutting a photo or pattern paper.  When you're ready to use the squares, you just need to snip a 1' square out. For those not familiar with Mosaic Moments, they have special cardstock with quide marks for placing the squares & rectangles.  For this layout, I used MM Red Cardstock which I'm not crazy about for these photos but it does match the American Crafts DSP plus I had limited colors of the grid paper.

Pattern No. 580 - Mosaic Style.  This pattern calls for 3 photos, Basic Die Set A & B with the 1" grid die.  Because of the size of the ticket I used in lieu of a photo, I changed out Set A for Set D

The top 4x6 photo followed the pattern & is placed on a mat cut by the die.  Since the ticket was larger, I used Set D which add another row but I still had to cut it down. This also allowed me to add my journaling.  Because I used another row of squares for the ticket, the photo on the bottom left would have been the same number of rows so I changed it's size from a square to a rectangle.

Pattern No. 506 - Mostly Squares.  This pattern calls for 9 photos & the Basic Die Set A with the 1" grid die.

All the photos worked well with the die size so I didn't need to make any changes to the pattern.  I also chose this pattern because I felt the 1" DSP squares flowed well from those on the left page into the right page.

I'm looking forward to use more of the Mosaic Moments dies including their specialty dies!

TFL! 

 

Boating Vacation

Boy it's been awhile since I've posted any of my projects.  This is a layout I did for Splitcoaststampers's July Progressive Challenge "Summer Get-Together".  We are given different tasks each week & this photo was taken after the final task.. Also each week we post our layouts on SCS & receive comments from fellow SCS members.

Week 1 was to select a 2 page layout (I was inspired by a layout from Memoriesoncloverlane which I found on Pinterest), find our photos & 5 words,  I used The lake, Swimming, Boating, Camping with friends, Campfires.
Week 2's task was to add our "summer" photos to the 2 page layout we chose and start scrappin! We were to make a basic layout, without embellishments and use only papers and photos...no wording yet!  Keeping with our "summer" theme, use some colors of summer - yellow, orange, or tan. I used yellow card stock from Mosaic Moments which has markings to help you arrange your photos & makes blocking very easy.

Week 3 was to share our story with lots of journaling & words. I used the 5 words from Task 1 for all the things we did over the summer.  Because this is a summer get-together we needed to add a sun or at least a circle. I placed a sun under the journaling. The last task was to add some type of summer-y embellishment. I used water drops, noodles, a beach ball & flip flops

Week 4 was to try to add at least one of the things that someone had suggested in the comments on our page.  Some of the suggestions were to add a little crab or seashells, photo corners or blue matting, word strips on a few photos.  I added tiny shells & "Lake Glass" that I found at the lake under the flip flops, word strips on blue card stock on two photos. We were also to add one bracket, optional to use brads or buttons and any other finishing touches.  I used a brad bracket at the top of the journaling box.

These monthly challenges are always fun.  It's takes a month to do one layout but to document how they start out and end is so much fun!  Hope you have play along some time.

TFL!

Lou Ann


Supplies used:

Mosaic Moments Sunflower Yellow 12x12 Grid Paper


Paper Loft Island Sun Boat Accessory Sheet   


Paper Loft Island Sun Vacation Accessory Sheet


Jolee - Nooldes, beach ball

The water drops, flip flops were things I had in my stash & unfortunately don't know the company.

Mastering the Hammock

This is a two page layout from a Mosiac Moments class by Tami Potter's Wish in the Wind.  It's one of my favorite classes to take when I go to the Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook Convention with several of the other NEPA Gigglers.   Tami is a wonderful teacher & her husband, Kevin helps out too.   These pages will also count towards my Splitcoaststampers Scrapbook Goals for January & are the final two I needed to hit my Janary goal of eight pages.  Yay, I made it!!   

On the left page, I printed the title in Word on SU Very Vanilla.  I was surprised how well the printer color matched the tan blocks.  The photos were taken in 2010 so again I printed the year in Word & cut them out on my trimmer.  Usually I punch out the numbers or letters but these blocks are 2X2 & (believe it or not) I don't have the right size punch.  The flower blocks were part of the kit & are lightly sponged.  I decided to add the buttons which aren't part of Tami's design but I used them on the right page too so this helps tie the pages together.  

 

For the right page, my journaling was much smaller than the 4X4 bvlock so instead I cut it 4X2 & centered it on the block.  I then added the buttons (which aren't part of Tami's design) to fill in the blank space.  Thanks for looking!!

 

 

Supplies:  Mosaic Moments Kit, SU very Vanilla.

 

 

 

Jeff & Cindy's Wedding

I did this scrapbook page in July 2011 at the Creating Keepsakes Convention in Valley Forge, PA.  It was a cross word puzzle class offered through Mosaic Moments by Tami Potter.  Tami's classes are one of my favorites and I take as many of them as I can when I attend CKC each year with my fellow gigglers.  Tami and her husband are super nice and very patient teachers.  She has a unique system for making the mosaic pages.  The cardstock she has is high quality and it is marked so your pictures are always lined up perfectly.  The letters are also from her company and she has other accessories called cornerstones.  If you visit her website you can see all her products and she even offers free downloads on some items.  (I guess that's a pretty good commerical for Tami's company...and no, I'm not on their payroll...LOL)  I did find a free cross word program online that you can type your words into and it gives you a layout which makes this very simple.  My subject was the wedding of my youngest son, Jeff and daugher-in-law, Cindy.  The pictures & letters are punched out using a 1 inch Marvy punch.  SU has one now but some 1 inch punches aren't truly 1 inch so becareful if you purchase one.  I used 4X6 photos so the images were a little larger but you can also punch the pictures out of a thumbnail picture.  I'm using this as the opening page for their family scrapbook that I'm putting together for them.  I'll follow it with some of the full pictures on this page and then onto my grandson....yes, they've been married 10 years this October.  I do have some later scrapbook pages done but I'm a slow scrapbooker and have been sidetracked making cards!!  I hope you've enjoyed looking as much as I enjoyed putting it together.

Supplies:  All from Mosaic Moments by Tami Potter except the photos.