Still More Family Title Pages

When I had Sharon and Leanne over to scrap earlier this month, I worked on more title pages for my Library of Memories album system. If you're not familiar with Stacy Julian and her fantastic concept for keeping your photos and your layouts organized, look here - it's fantastic!


Once I created an album for each member of our immediate family, I wanted to also create sections for layouts which focused on more than one family member. So many pages are about activities or memories surrounding two of the siblings or Stephen and I. Here is a look at the page I created which will be the title page for the album about our twin daughters.




I want all of my LOM pages to have a consistent look. I've maintained a format for my LOM title pages which includes Chatterbox artsy.licious papers and embellishments, ribbon, a journaling box and one large focal point photo with five smaller, supporting photos.







The journaling boxes are all still empty now, but I plan on including some journaling on each of the title pages in the future. This is the title page for layouts of me with my husband Stephen.








And this page heads the album which is for photos of the three siblings together. I have so many photos that I absolutely love of these three that there has to be an album just for that!


So now I am finished the title pages for those family members who live in our household - at least the human family members! When I started LOM back in 2010, we didn't have any animal family members, so I didn't pre-create the titles for pages about our pets - and yes, I said pets, plural. Our kids brought home a kitten they found in a garbage dumpster last week, so how could I say no? But that is a post in itself, which will follow soon.


Thanks for checking in, and have a great week!

We Are Family LOM Title Pages

Here are the Library of Memories title pages I created for each member of our family. I've left a journaling block on each page to add a personal note later. I used a similar format for each page, since I wanted a consistent look. The larger photo is 5 x 7 and the smaller are wallet prints. Here is Alicia's page. She was quick to point out to me that I'm not finished making title pages yet - I need to make one for Merlin! :-}


Vanessa's page is pink. I used Chatterbox's artsy.licious line for all of these layouts. I snapped quite a bit of it up so can make whatever additional title pages I decide I need in the future as I expand my Library of Memories.











I used Evan's title page the sneak peek in my last post. The large photo I used on this page is one of my favourite pictures of him ever.













I used a photo of me when we were on holidays in Jamaica a few years ago as the focal photo for my page. Hmmm, I feel like I am about due another tropical vacation any time now, don't you think? :-}










For Stephen's title page, the large photo is of him playing DJ at a New Year's Eve party a few years back. He's so totally in his element!

If you don't know what Stacy Julian's Library of Memories system is (and you have tens of thousands of photos on your hard drive - like me :-o ), take a peek here. I love the concept she has built around photo and scrapbook page organization.

I don't follow it to the letter, but I have used many of her processes to organize my pages and photos, making them so much easier to find. This class typically runs once a year at Big Picture Classes. I highly recommend it!

More Library of Memories Title Pages

To complement the four main category title pages I created for my Library of Memories last year, I've created individual title pages for each member of our family. These will be the first page in each of our albums. Here is a peek at Evan's. I have photos of each of the pages to post in the next few days.

I picked up a ton of artsy.licious paper when Scrapalicious had it on special at Scrapfest last year. I was thinking ahead to many more title pages I may have to make to organize my albums, since I do want all of the title page papers to come from the same collection.

BTW, if you're heading to Scrapfest this weekend, I'm totally jealous! Unfortunately we just have too much going on at this time of year, so I can't make it. If you're heading there, have a blast!

Oh, and if you're cropping, bring a crash helmet! :-}

artsy.licious Title Pages for Scrapalicious

I had a fantastic time at Scrapfest this year!

It was the first time I stayed overnight and cropped. I also took a class from Cathie Allen, so it was really a packed couple of days. I think Sue, Nancy and I had more fun than humanly possible! And if you are a scrapper and you haven't heard yet about my huge wipe-out during the scavenger hunt, I'd be surprised! :-) The Scrapalicious booth was hopping all weekend with great make 'n takes and these beautiful artsy.licious papers.

When I received a stunning DT kit of Chatterbox papers and embellishments, I looked at the brown, red, blue and green and realized how beautifully they would match the American Crafts albums that I just bought for my Library of Memories. I couldn't resist making my album title pages using these papers in a monochromatic way. Starting from the top, I used brown for my Things We Do album.

For each page, I selected a meaningful photo for the focal photo. On the Things page, the photo depicts my hubby and kids playing cards with my cousins' kids in our favourite Montreal hangout - Tim Horton's. The blue Places We Go page highlights places, both near and far, that are meaningful to us. The large photo is taken from Whistler mountain during an airshow. See the three planes in the upper right of the photo?! (Much easier in person!)

Our home, the place we go most often, is pictured right below the title. For the green People We Love, the photo is of Stephen's grandmother's 85th birthday, which we celebrated in our former backyard with most of Stephen's family. And the red We are Family album will house pages with photos of all 5 of us. Since I am usually behind the camera, I was surprised that I was able to find enough family of 5 photos to fill this page! :-}


The upper right photos is the first "family of 5" photo we ever took. It was taken at Easter, right after the girls were born, and is the first of hopefully very many more of all of us together.

If you didn't have a chance to get to Scrapfest, stop by Scrapalicious and see these beautiful papers. The artsy.licious line includes stunning flocked, embossed, glittered and many other beautiful papers, either individually or in multipacks.

I will have more of the Scrapfest projects I created for Scrapalicious to post soon.

LOM Category Drawers and More!

Whew! So much to say, so little time!

This is always such a busy time of year for our family. The school routine and activities keep us hopping all week, weekends have been beautiful for getting outside, at the office we're non-stop right now - and I'm up late packing for Scrapfest this weekend (yahoo!) and getting RAKs ready to be mailed.

In the midst of everything, I've been managing to stay reasonably caught up (believe it or not!) in my LOM class. I found awesome 6-up albums at Wal-Mart for my Storage Binders, and the above photo is a peek at my category drawers. These drawer units were a cast off after many years of use at the office, and since they are index card sized, they're perfect for storing 4 x 6 photos. I just covered the well-worn fronts with patterned paper. The drawer in the photo is my Us/People drawer. Since I only have 2 drawers, I've put Us/People together and Places/Things together. I feel so organized! :-}

I've been taking quite a few Project 365 photos - maybe not one every day, but at least 7 every week - however they are not even uploaded from my camera yet. I'm hoping I'll have a chance to post some soon. I found another sweet photo connection to an old photo of the girls, so I'm hoping to get that posted next. I also got a lovely shot of all 3 kids on Easter Sunday at their Grandma and Grandpa's.

I've been so busy, I've barely had time to be excited about Scrapfest! I'm really looking forward to seeing so many of my scrapping friends there. If you're going, drop me a line and we'll try to meet up. I'll be cropping with Sue and Nancy, and hopefully being reasonably productive, and not just socializing, right Sue? :-} I'm also in Cathie Allen's Faux Leather Album class on Saturday afternoon, so if you are too, let me know. It's such a beautiful project. You can join me, Janice, Patti and Elia in having the rowdiest table! :-}

I'm also planning a quick trip to Edmonton for my Mom's 85th birthday (85 - can you believe it!) in mid-May. So Edmonton friends, touch base and we'll make the most of my short visit. Of course, a trip to Treasured Memories (if you want to meet me there, let me know!), a meal at Earls and a visit to my beloved Olive Garden (non-existent out here) are definitely in the plans!

I'll be checking in again once Scrapfest is over. I can start posting the projects I've been keeping under wraps until the show. I can't wait! Stay tuned. :-}

LOM Clipboard

I'm still caught up in my LOM class, believe it or not! Here's my clipboard, which - OK, I'll admit it - I received when I first took this class in 2007, finally done! Back then, I chose the papers to use for this project, and I still love them! I also used them a while ago in this layout of my Grannie, which I cherish so very much.
The papers are from a Wild Asparagus release by My Mind's Eye. I used Thickers for the title, and lots of Tim Holtz crackle paint on the clip. Now that it's finally finished, (you can see my hubby re-attaching the clip here)
:-P I'm so happy with it. Now it's time to get some pages scrapped!

Photo Connections

I'm so happy with my progress to date in the Library of Memories class I'm taking with Stacy Julian. I've never really felt tied to chronological scrapping, so I'm already on board there. Stacey's photo triage process, though, has really helped me to get (most of) my photos from a mess to organized!!
All the photos that friends and family took at our wedding. Sorted. Those Sears portraits and kids' school pictures. Filed. Most of our digital files, too. I still have old prints to sort, but the latest 5 years are done! I'll get photos of my system up soon, (once I've had a chance to take some!)
Here's a really simple example of a photo connection I found while filing photos. When Evan made his Swiss Chalet for Social Studies at age 6, the girls were only 3 years old. We were in our previous house (and yes, I actually miss that wallpaper!) See how young Evan looks? Now the girls are in grade 1.

They're at a different school than Evan was for grade 1, and we live in a different house, but they are studying the same curriculum, learning about the foundation of our community (ironically, it seems to include many fast food restaurants!) They're studying in French, just like Evan did. I realize how much alike they are in appearance, although Vanessa is miles ahead of both her siblings when it comes to missing teeth for her age!

This connection is so much fun, and I am looking forward to creating a layout about all three of our kids and their collective experience with this project, which they all loved doing. I've seen much more complex connections too, including ones that link my kids' childhood experiences to my own. Places - for example my aunt and uncles' homes in Montreal. Activities - like camping. Music. Outdoor play. So much more. It makes scrapbooking so much fun.

I'm still planning to do annual chronological highlights albums about our household each year. But other than that, chronology definitely doesn't live in my scraproom!

Priceless!

Crop-a-dile - $25.00

Clipboard (nicely altered for LOM and in need of having clip re-attached) - $3.00

Capturing a pic of hubby as he admits that nothing punches holes for rivets like your pink scrapbooking tool - priceless!

This Year I'm Ready!

A few years ago I heard about Stacy Julian's Library of Memories concept. I loved it instantly. Before I had kids, I was the kind of person who had all of my photos organized and in albums. I wanted to get back to that place (and better), so I signed up. Oooops! I only made it through the first 2 lessons.
Not this time! Alumni registration for LOM 2010 started today, and I am totally IN! My lesson binder is altered (see it above), my pre-workshop handouts are printed, my clipboard is ready and my AC albums are on order! The unit on the right in this picture houses my storage system, labeled and ready! I can't wait!

I jumped the gun when I originally signed up for this workshop, since when the girls were tiny I just didn't have the time to devote to setting the system up. This time I'm going all the way. If you are also taking this class, as a newbie or an alumni, touch base and we can work on our systems together.

Scrapstrong! :-}