This is fabulous! Love all the details...chalkboard and flower are awesome. How awesome that you have your mom's scrapbook album. It is so amazing how much scrapbooking has changed over the years.
The flipped over border on the blackboard element is SO SMART! LOVE this page- the pen nibs on the clock chipboard are fantastic as well. Great details!
I love this Kelly! Using a pin to scratch the title is a great idea! Love the design and the photo! How wonderful that you have your mum's scrapbooks too! So precious..
Congratulations Kelly!!!!! I can't even tell you how excited I am for you!!!!! Just the fact that you got published is so amazing, but to hae made the top 30 finalists is so, so wonderful. this page is fantasitc - all of the details are fabulous. The photo is a real treasure. You always make your pages with love, and it shows in your work!!!!!
Hi Kelly! I saw on your blog that you were in the top 30 finalists. In my opinion, you can count on getting SWEET news on March 30th! I'm looking forward to hearing all about it. I love how you used the pin to scratch your title out. I think it looks great!
Wow you have created a wonderful vintage lo.The photo ,pps and wonderful details are perfect with your chosen embellishments. Congratulations so far and good luck in the future.
Love this Kelly! You are so lucky to have these awesome pics from your mother's childhood! I love the chaulkboard...especially the framing! and the little girl peering over the top of the photo is adorable. Oh my! Just noticed the pen nibs as the hands on the clock! How cool is that! Staright to faves my friend!
Oh Kelly where do I begin, I love it all. I love the chalkboard and the way you scratched the words, it looks just like chalk. Using the pen nibs as hands on the clock, very clever. I have my fingers crossed, you would be a perfect addition to the team!!!
This is fantastic!!! Love the chalkboard (it looks real) and how clever to scratch the words into it. I have chalkboard paper too (which I haven't used yet) and wondered how chalk would actually stay on and not get smudged off. Great idea...and it looks like chalk too! Love the clock and the handmade flower too...such a great layout!!
Absolutely wonderful page...those pp's couldn't be more perfect. Love the school photo ...it is a true gem to have!! Love your flower and the TH embellies!! The blackboard looks fabulous and a very creative display for your title! Why does the mere mention of scratching the blackboard send shivers down your spine..lol. Beautifully done Kelly...love it!!!
Oh My Kelly, what a fabulous page!!! I truly love the stunning design!! It is perfection!! Everything is placed so wonderfully with such care! I love the photograph and the story behind your Mom's schooldays and scrapbooking! The old scrapbooks on black paper with black corners are great too, I think, they have a charm all their own! My Mom made me one for my baby book all those years ago, only she used white ink to write down the captions etc... Congrats on being published, and I hope you make the design team, wow, you made the top 30, that's an accomplishment you should be proud of!! Hope you enjoy a good week ahead! Thanks again my friend! Natalie
I don't have any new adjectives to describe how much I love your pages! Awesome, Gorgeous, Amazing...are so over done...but this is all of those! So just know that I LOVE EVERYTHING you do!
Kelly another wonderful page! Congrats on the publishing and I'm still crossing my fingers for you in the G45 DT team! Saw you made the finals...yippee!!
WELL< I AM JUST DOWNRIGHT JEALOUS of you having all those pictures!!!!!!!! You are so LUCKY~~~ Kelly, you know i'm joshing~~I love your Lo. Especially the little girls with the books!!You are so sweet!!
Oh Kelly congratulations on being published and I hope you will be on the G45 DT...congrats on making the top 30. They'd do well to pick you! Wish I could vote. I love all the authentic looking details here...your chalkboard is such a great and creative embelly and love the cutouts especially the little girl with the books. I always love doilies and the old photo is still wonderful even if you think it isn't the greatest quality it is a treasure right? I have and love some of those pps and now I need to get them out..I've been playing with G45's other line, Little Darlings, another fave. I'd love to see what you do with those.
FAB-U-LOUS work Kelly!!!!!! Love the great old photo & your entire design! Your blackboard turned out perfect & your scratched letters look exactly like chalk!!!!!!! Love the doilies & clock!!! BEAUTIFUL work!!!!
I designed this layout for Canadian Scrapbooker magazine using the Graphic 45 ABC Primer Collection, and it appears in the newly released Spring 2012 issue.
As soon as I saw this G45collection, I knew I wanted to scrapbook one of the photos from my mom's school days. I am blessed with a mother who scrapbooked, albeit the old-fashioned way, and I have in my possession her albums ....the kind with black pages and pictures adhered with black photo corners. They are so precious to me :)
This is her class photo from 1940, in a one-room school in the country (she grew up on a grain farm). I know the photo isn't the greatest quality, but she is the one standing to the right of the last girl seated on the right...she is wearing a dark pinafore dress.
I tried to make a blackboard using real wood veneer paper from Creative Imaginations. The actual blackboard is blackboard paper from DCWV...but I tried using chalk and it was too smudgy, so I scratched the letters of the title "School Days" with a pin.
I made the fabric flower with DCWV Fabric Paper...it is adhesive backed and so easy to work with. I created a tutorial for this flower and how to use the DCWV Fabric Paper to make a card on the Canadian Scrapbooker magazine website/blog www.canadianscrapbooker.ca/jackie [date March 6, 2012]
You can also view this layout on my own blog, along with a collection of all my Graphic 45 layouts....because I auditioned for their DT. Gulp....so far I've made the top 30 finalists list. We'll see what happens on March 30 when they pick their final DT. www.kellycreates.blogspot.com [Date February 25, 2012]
Thanks for stopping by....Your kind comments are a joy to read!
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