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August Passporter Scrapbook Challenge*Featuered Layout picked*
Happy August Challengies, It's hot out So let cool down a bit and Scrap some Water pages. use water as your theme, weather it be the pool , Splash Mt. , Water park, river or water fall. Have fun my wet friends.
Sounds good, I have a WDW trip that I'm working on that has some pool pages needing to be done. I am determined to not post the last couple of days, this time.
Thanks for posting the subject of the August (I can't believe it's Aug. already!!!!!!!!!) challenge, Marcie! We appreciate your comittment!
Just thought of something you all may not know. I was thinking everybody knew but was talking to someone (Vicky maybe?) last week and realized you may not all know. (I'm trying to boost our August challenge layouts with an incentive to scrap...) If you are selected as the feature layout person for a particular month, you'll get a PM from me and I'll make and send you a title of your choice of word(s) and color, cut on my wishblade. (I cut out the disney looking font and weld the letters together. They are so adorable!) Come on folks, lets see some layouts posted.
Also, I started this free give away (via Marcie) a couple of months ago, so if you are a past winner who I contacted and you haven't PMed me your title and mailing address yet, get 'er done! I start teaching again in Sept. and would like to make them before I start again!!
Happy scrapping, everyone! (Now, I'm off to work on my own layout to post, to set a good example!)
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Well, since I slacked off in July, I thought I'd jump right in and post for the August challenge. These pages are from my first completed album - which of course, I didn't get to keep because I was making it as a gift. I have a thing for giving away all my completed projects! So anyway, these are some of my favorites:
This layout is about how we used the hot tub as a diving board:
This is just some more pool fun and the left page is about playing a boys against girls
volleyball game:
This is about how hooked we are about finding shark's teeth on the beach - my Mom and StepDad have a huge collection - around 2000 teeth in all.
Sorry these pictures are not the best - I took these a while back before I had done a lot of posting
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Wow, thanks for posting all of those. It gets me motivated to scrap. I peeked at them yesterday and went off to finish the pages I was working on so I can start thinking about my pool layouts. I think the splashes are my favorite, too. Did you design that free hand?
Thanks for the comments - I like the Splash page best too!
Michelle, I did do the Splash page freehand. As I was looking over all my pictures, I noticed there were quite a few of everyone jumping off the hot tub - most everyone was trying to catch a ball. None of the pictures was great but the whole assortment of them was pretty neat together. And then it looked good too, with the pictures of "Uncle Beefcake" (my DBIL) doing the handstands and flips off the side off the hot tub into the pool. After I cut out the splash shapes of the people jumping in, I realized that I had a lot of empty pool water that I could use to make water splashes to accent the page.
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Beautiful pages, Karen! I also love the splash one. Man. that looks like it was a lot of work but well worth it. Love the bright colors on the other pages too. They look so sunny and summery. (is that a word?)
I also love the colors on the shark teeth pages. What did you use for the letters in the title? (I think it says searching) It looks very cool.
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Michelle, I did do the Splash page freehand. As I was looking over all my pictures, I noticed there were quite a few of everyone jumping off the hot tub - most everyone was trying to catch a ball. None of the pictures was great but the whole assortment of them was pretty neat together. And then it looked good too, with the pictures of "Uncle Beefcake" (my DBIL) doing the handstands and flips off the side off the hot tub into the pool. After I cut out the splash shapes of the people jumping in, I realized that I had a lot of empty pool water that I could use to make water splashes to accent the page.
Wow, how creative. I don't think I could do that.
Nala, I love the blues and browns together and it was a great idea to post that close up picture so we could see the detail. So much gets lost in a photo.
Karen, I was inspired by your bright colors and attempted to do my layouts with them. But, my love of muted, vintage colors foiled my plans. You know what they say about old habits.
Anyway, I have been waiting to scrap these pictures of Kiara playing in the hose in our backyard. I could do an entire album of pictures of her playing in water, as she is so obsessed with it, but these are my favorites.
Underneath the picture on the first page and on the left corner of the second page I used clear microbeads and some little gems. This is something I haven't done in a while and now I remember why. Those little things go everywhere and make quite the mess!!!!
The word Water was done with chipboard letters that I inked and Kiara painted. I then used a clear ink and an opal powder to emboss them.
Nala - love the Water Baby page! It's nice to know that sometimes I can inspire you because your pages are always so awesome! The bright aqua blue goes nicely with your other muted colors! I love the gems and sparklies - also the embossed letters! Are those paint chip (or as my kids used to say - paint chimps) samples under your journalling? What a clever way to use them! You could probably do a whole book of Kiara water pages - I bet that would be really cool!
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Thanks Marcie and Karen! And yes, Karen, that is a paint chip. I swear, one of these days I am going to be banned from the Home Depot for stealing paint chips! I sure hope they never get rid of the Disney ones with the Mickey heads!!!
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So anyway, these are some of my favorites:
Now I need to get busy and scrap.....
You know what they say about old habits. 
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