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Hey guys!
Laura Craigie here today, and I’m excited to share five scrapbook pages that I made with the January edition of The Best of Both Worlds kit! I can honestly say that this kit was love at first sight. It has such a diverse colour palette, and the perfect amount of embellishments and alphas. I was able to make five pages, and I have SO much product left to work with, and the adorable stamps I know I’ll use again and again.

The first page I made kind of fell together. I opened the package of 3×4 Simple Stories cards and started pulling out ones I was drawn to, and the four of them just worked so well together I decided to base my whole page off them. Because the four cards fill up so much space on an 8.5×11” page all I had to do was add a few quick embellishments, some journaling and the page was complete!

The second page I made was simply a lot of fun to do! I love the Pink Paislee paper with the cutouts, but couldn’t really get it to work as a base for a page so I used some circle dies and cut out a number of the circle elements and raised them with adhesive foam so you could really see the star cut outs better. I also fussy cut the “love” script word from a Simple Stories card and adhered it over my photograph. When it came time to create my title, I knew I wanted to alter the products and I started by using a black marker to colour over the green alpha stickers to match my page better. I also decided to heat emboss the “boy” with a colour that would make the title really pop on the page.

I decided to keep things pretty simple for this page, and wanted to let the photographs shine. I did however want to create a fun title on the page and layered that over some negative space in the photographs. I have a ton of journaling to add for this page about life on my brother’s farm, but I ran out of printer ink and will simply create a secondary journaling page for the other side of the spread when I put it in my album.

I have been on a ‘hearts & scallops’ kick these days, and even though I’m a boy mom I don’t let that stop me! This kit had such great heart elements including stickers and a polka dot heart on the 3×4 card that I used here too. I used the scallop stamp from the stamp set with a navy ink and stamped that on the side of my photo. I think it would be adorable to stamp that around the entire photo too. There are also adorable chipboard scallops that I use on my next page too.

I saved my personal favourite page for last. The red/yellow/blue colour combo is so bold and definitely a favourite of mine right now. I loved the October Afternoon paper with the clocks and thought it would lend it self nicely to a page about time itself. In this case, how fleeting moments are. I swore I only blinked, and ten years has flown by. I tried to create a visual triangle with this page by using red and yellow elements in three spots around the photograph. I again coloured the green alpha stickers black to match my page, and used the gorgeous yellow chipboard frame to highlight part of my title.

I hope you are inspired to dig into your kit and I hope you share your projects, I would love to see them! This is truly such a lovely and versatile kit, which made it so very easy to create these pages, and many more I’m sure.

Laura Craigie lives with her husband and three busy boys on the west coast of Canada. She started scrapbooking in 2004 while pregnant with her first son, the rest as they say is history. Laura is proud to design for Pebbles, October Afternoon, and work as a Garden Girl at Two Peas in a Bucket. She loves nothing more than a quiet evening scrapbooking or making cards, once her kiddos are in bed. You can catch up with Laura on her blog PaperLulu or on Instagram as Justlulu.

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30 January 2014

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