Kaitlin Sheaffer

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Hi everyone, Yuki here! Have you seen the sneak peek of the newest products which will be released on March 4^th?
I am so excited about those awesome items and cannot wait to get them! You will love them, too! Please leave your comments by February 22^nd for a chance to win!

OK, this is my newest layout.

I love this beautiful flair button. This is so chic and elegant.

I stapled flappers from the Word up collection and the Bungalow collection on the top of my page.

I used “ Behind the Scenes “ and “ Camera image “ stamps from the Word Up stamps.

Thanks for stopping by!

 

camping mini album

Hi everyone! I've been working on completing a mini album I made from our recent camping trip in the thumb area of Michigan, and today I want to show you some of what I've done so far. This is a photo-heavy post, so grab a beverage and get cozy ;)
The album is the chipboard binder in the Ormolu shop. It's completely bare + open to so many possibilities of how to embellish it. I did a combination of a few things. First, I made a diecut of the state of Michigan on the Silhouette and embossed the negative onto the album with UTEE. After a couple layers of misting spray and adding a few tags + banners, the cover was done.
Inside, I used a lot of Ormolu products. In particular, the tree hugger and 2-day hooray lines. Below are many of the interior pages. I was happy to find a home for my Summer 2012 flair on the opening page. Love that button :

Lots + lots of cameras throughout :
I love the dots n' spots for pages like this where you don't have a lot to say. I also used them on blank pages where I didn't have a photo but still wanted to fill the space, like on some envelope flaps :


The dots n' spots that have simple patterns on them are also great for writing a little journaling on :

Flappers, flappers everywhere :

I think this page below is one of my favorites in this mini album. Love all the layered tags :



Thanks so much at peeking into my album! If you are looking to place an Ormolu order, you should do it soon. The shop will be on a break for a couple months starting this Saturday, July 28th. Enjoy the rest of your week!

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Happy mistakes

 

Good morning! Melanie here, sharing a layout that came together nicely, despite a few mishaps along the way. 

I took hundreds of photos during our mini vacation to NYC a few months back, and wanted to put several of them on one page, which is always a challenge when you scrapbook 81/2 x11, single page layouts. ;)  I decided to resize some faves to 2x2, but for some reason, ( which I still haven't figured out ) my photos kept printing out at 1x1 inches. After 3 failed printing attempts, I got fed up and decided to use the photos 'as is'. They're tiny and hard to see on the layout, but I liked all the white space it left me on my page, so I just took the whole sheet, trimmed it down into a square, and made a grid design in the middle of the page. I knew I wanted to use these Studio Calico vacation themed stamps on my layout, so I decided to stamp my title under the bottom of my photos- I was a bit over zealous with the ink pad, because my text didn't stamp out very crisp. At this point, I'd already glued down my photos, so I decided to re-stamp the 'week' word, cut it out, and just pop-dotted it on top of the messed up version. I love how it looks with some dimension, much cooler than the flat text I was originally going to use. This is a simple trick I learned through error, and I love it.

I don't know about you, but everytime I stamp on a page, I end up with ink somewhere where I definitely DON'T want it. I managed to get a blob of black ink in the bottom right hand corner ( courtesy of my forearm, which I somehow stuck in the ink pad unknowingly...*note to self* - put cover on inkpad after stamping!) so I grabbed one of the 'tag sale' tags and layered  it on top of a bit of washi tape, which covered up my blob nicely. ;) Finally, I added my title on top of the photos with a perfectly worded tag sale flair button, and a little subtitle stamped on top of one of my favourite sale tags. 

Here's the final outcome:

I love when making mistakes turns into something good. :)

 

 

 

 

 

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Travel Mini Albums

 

 

I love mini albums. I like the idea of keeping record of an event, trip or subject in a small, maneagable format.

A few years ago, I found an idea via the internet to make mini travel albums with Moleskine journals. I made a journal of a trip to Chicago and New York City, and loved how much information I could pack into such a small book.

Since my husband and I are planning a trip to Seattle and Portland this fall, I thought it might be a good time to get started on my albums!

 

Working on the covers is probably my favorite part. I like to use airport codes (PDX and SEA) for the city, so I can know at a quick glance which album I want to flip through.

On my Portland album, I layered fabric, different patterned papers, stamps, Thickers and the cute little car button from the Go Flair set. On my Seattle set, I used the cute grey and yellow arrow from the Go Dots n' Spots set. I tried to keep the same color theme, and the Ormolu products coordinated perfectly.

In my Portland and Seattle albums, I also lined my pages with cardstock. This gives the otherwise thin pages some heft, and will allow me to journal on the lined pages during and after my trip. I am also leaving room to include memorabilia as well as a few embellishments.
 

I can't wait to go on my trip, print out some tiny photos and drop them into my pre-made album. Hope this inspires you to make a little album yourself!

xoxo,

Stephanie

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The Classic Grid

Vacation photos are my favourite thing to scrapbook, because when I look back on those layouts, they evoke such fantastic memories.  I usually take many hundreds of photos when I travel, and sadly, not a lot of them make it onto a scrapbook page.  One way I like to use several photos on one page is to make a simple hybrid grid layout that still incorporates the white space I love. 

I began the layout by choosing and editing my photos, ( which took forever, as I had MANY)  and cropping them to 2in. x 2in  in my Photoshop program. Then I simply dragged them onto a 81/2 x 11” canvas (making sure it was the same dpi as my pics at 300 dpi ) and arranged the photos until I was happy with how they looked.  I knew I wanted to use some patterned paper as a place to add my Ormolu embellishments, so I just printed everything in a grid, trimmed  my woodgrain paper , and adhered it right over 2 of the photos.  I trimmed the woodgrain heart from the TreeHugger flapper,  added some pop dots, and adhered it to one of the dots & spots to create my own embellishment. The TreeHugger line is so great for scrapping camping/outdoor photos, it's adorable.

 

 Et voila.. I’ve used this grid design over and over for years, and it remains one of my favourites... I think it’s a staple that will never go out of style!

 

  

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