Kiss and Tell Scrapbooking

Tribute Scrapbook Part 4: Scrapbooking a Document without a Photo

This scrapbook process video is part of the Creating a Tribute Scrapbook series.  In this video, I put together a scrapbook page using a document only without any photos.  Since it was an important document - in this case, it was the letter home from the Marines in WWII saying that Charlie had been injured - he would later be awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star for sustaining injuries during batter - so I felt like it could stand on its own without a photo.

 

I used a copy of the document for the scrapbook - I would never slap stickers on the original.

Do you ever make scrapbook pages of documents?  If you have, I'd love to see what you've made - please leave a link.

Tribute Scrapbook Part 3: Words + Photos Layout "Memo"

We are now at the fun part of making a Tribute Scrapbook:  Making the layouts and I'm making scrapbook process videos in real time as I make the scrapbook pages. 

 

Remember it has been a while since I've been scrapbooking or making videos - it will probably take me a bit to get back into the groove on both fronts.  I'm happy to be back to creating and I'm happy you've stopped by!  Please leave a comment to let me know what you've been up to.

Creating a Tribute Scrapbook Part 2: Selecting and Sorting Photos

The second video in the Creating a Tribute Scrapbook series is up over at You Tube.  This video is all about how I gathered and sorted the photos that I may use for the album.

 

The next several videos will be scrapbook process videos showing me making scrapbook layouts - stay tuned.

 

New Scrapbook Process Video Series: Creating a Tribute Album

My favorite father-in-law - yes, I do only have one father-in-law, but he is still one of my favorite people of all time - passed away on December 30, 2015.  We are hosting his celebration of life this Saturday.   As a scrapbooker and family historian, my mind instantly goes to making a scrapbook for the memorial.  So I decided to create a short series of videos about how I am throwing together a Tribute Album in 4 days.  

Here's a link to the first video which shows how I pulled together the bare bones of the album from scrapbook layouts that I've already made:

 

I hope you will enjoy it and bear with me - it's been several months since I've made scrapbooking videos - or even done any scrapbooking at all - so I'm re-learning all of my video skills - rough as they are.  This video is about an hour but many of the process videos will be lots shorter - so hopefully there will be a little something for everyone's video length preferences.

Thanks for stopping by and please let me know what scrappy things you are up to and whether you have ever made a tribute album.

:) Katie.

P.S.  If you are interested in more family history scrapbooking videos, check out the "Family History Scrapbooking" playlist on my You Tube Channel - here's a link: FAMILY HISTORY SCRAPBOOKING PLAYLIST

Loving the Double Wide - This Month at Get It Scrapped

Hey Scrapbookers!

Most of the scrapbook layouts I make are single pagers; however, lately, with the inspiration over at Masterful Scrapbook Design / Get It Scrapped - I'm loving the double wide again:

One reason I'm loving the two pager again is that I'm thinking of this set up more as a one page layout with a supporting page. 

So the left part of this 2 pager could totally stand alone as a regular one page scrapbook layout:

In this case the supporting page includes lots of journaling, but more often than not my supporting page includes a ton of photos.

I had lots of random memories that I wanted to jot down so doing this journaling only page was a great way to get them down on paper.

One more thing, I used an original photo on this page!  I sewed a part of a plastic pocket onto the page so that the original photo was safe and sound - the stickers are on top of the page protector for that photo rather than right on the photo:

Want to see more 2 page layouts?  Go check out Loving the Double Wide at Masterful Scrapbook Design. 

Want to hear more about one page layouts versus two page layouts?  Go check out The Scrap Gals Podcast: Episode 67: Real Life vs. Pros which includes a discussion about the 1 versus 2 page layout.

Want to see my process video for making this page?  Go to my You Tube Channel:

 

Thanks for stopping by!

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8.5 x 11 Scrapbook Layout: Amazing Grace

Everything old is new again.  When I started scrapbooking, I did 8.5 x 11 layouts - and I still do them from time to time, but the majority of my pages are 12x12.  I've noticed so many 8.5 x 11 layouts on Pinterest this year - I think this size is definitely making its come back.   A few of the things I like about this size are that the pages go together quickly and they are easier to store than 12x12 layouts.  What size layouts are you making?  Leave a comment, I would love to know.

This page is all about my Grandma Grace who never stopped talking - thus the "blah blah blah" patterned paper was so appropriate for this layout.  She was also a collector of stuff - she was an expert at squirreling things away in drawers and closets.  She loved an abundance of stuff - thus the little to no white space on this layout matches her personality.

I miss her so much.

I thought I made a process video for this layout but I can't seem to find it - but here's another layout I made about my Grandma Grace with the Jenni Bowlin October 2014 kit:

 

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Scraplifting Get It Scrapped's Story Play: Scrapbooking with a Timeline

This page was made for a Get It Scrapped Blog Post about using a timeline to tell a story on your scrapbook page. 

 

 

Scraplifting Get It Scrapped's Story Play: Gideon

 

This page is finally a page in which I stay pretty true to scraplifting Carrie Arick's page that appears in Get It Scrapped's Story Play - I've been trying to scraplift this one for days but I have kept getting off track - finally I'm on track to a scraplift of the layout design, the color combination, and the six word title!   The page wasn't hard to scraplift, but I had a hard time staying true to the layout design and using my homemade kit - so I'm happy to mark this one off my  "to scraplift" list.

The page is all about how my 2nd great grandparents decided to move west from Massachusetts to Kansas where my great grandmother was born; but then decided to move back to Massachusetts.  Their decision had a big impact on our family.  I have some idea of why they decided to come back but I still feel like I don't know the complete story - especially since my 2nd great grandfather's brother stayed out in Kansas.  I will be adding the text of some of Ella Augusta Hastings Allen's writings which appeared in a women's magazine about life in Kansas on the left side of what will be a 2 page spread in my scrapbook.  I have her writings in my family records, when I find them I will try to remember to take a few photos and update this post so you can see what that looks like.

Of course I made a scrapbook process video -  although sometime during the end my recorder went off unexpectedly - but I think I got most of the process on camera:

 

Want to see the inspiration page?  Go To GET IT SCRAPPED.

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Scraplifting Get It Scrapped's Story Play: Caught Me

This layout which was inspired by Story Play at Get It Scrapped  is all about how my grandparents met. 

Journaling:  Grandma Grace Flavin and Grandpa Allen Cunningham grew up spending their summers in the same beach town of Mattapoisette, MA. 

Of course I made a scrapbook process video, here's the link:

 

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Scrapbooking Process Video: Family History Mystery

Here's the page and the scrapbooking process video.  Enjoy.

 

This page is about who the mother of my great grandmother, Ellen Louise Joyce, is: Mary O'Brien who was listed in my baby book or Mary Shutters who Ancestry DNA shows I'm super connected to DNA wise.  I don't know the answer yet but this page gave me the opportunity to make notes so when I revisit this issue I can remember what I knew right now.

Scrapbook Process Video: How to Capture Family Stories

 

Do you ever have a great conversation with family about old family stories and then wonder how to get your memories scrapbooked? 

So I had this phone conversation with my Aunt about a couple dozen topics - including a few stories from the olden days that I wanted to get down immediately.  I did the journaling immediately after the conversation and I wrote down the story directly onto a ledger type piece of patterned scrapbooking paper. 

 

Then I made the rest of the page - this scrapbook process video shows you my whole real time scrapbooking process for this page:

(you tube scrapbook process video uploading now)

 

Scrapbook Process Video: Family History Scrapbooking with No Photos!

I created this family history scrapbook pocket page with printouts from the internet of my grandfather, #frankhowardfenderson 's transcripts of cassette tape recordings of This American Life style story hours with other Downeast Storytellers.   They did the tapes back in the early 1980s and you can find them at www.mainething.com under Alexander.

I just found that History Channel show called Downeast Dickering - and the folks in Calais have mixed reviews - they aren't sure they like it since the host is from "away" and the areas shown on the show aren't actually Downeast - more like the touristy coastal part of Maine closer to "away"!  Oh Yeah, Mainahs are wicked particulah about stuff like that.  Uh huh.

Supplies: Studio Calico, Basic Grey, Crate Paper, American Crafts, October Afternoon, Carta Bella.  I did leave that bottom bit of advertising on the red map paper because that sort of tells the story that I'm a story teller / scrapbooker too.

I did make a scrapbook process video while making this page:

 

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Oh yes of course I had problems uploading this one too!  This time I managed to get it up on Vimeo.  Tomorrow I'm going to try a different camera.  See you then. 

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Kiss and Tell Scrapbook Kit Club: Layout #3: Driveway Cafe, Calais, Maine

This layout started with a paper weave with the 12x.5 strips that come at the bottom of the Amy Tangerine and Dear Lizzy papers from American Crafts.  The weave reminded me of the placemats we made when we were kids; so I looked for a photo of the "kids' table" from my Nana and Grandpi's house where we always ate in the basement at the kids' table - but I couldnt' find one.  I did find this driveway picnic photo from around the same time and the grey paper reminded me of the pagement so it worked for this layout.  I added letter stickers from American Crafts (Thickers), Jenni Bowlin and Tim Holtz.

 

 

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Pilgrim Descendants: My Cousins Franklin Delano Roosevelt & Eleanor Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was descended from Pilgrim Richard Warren who is my 11th Great Grandfather and Eleanor Roosevelt is descended from Pilgrim Francis Cooke who is also my 11th Great Grandfather.  I figured it all out on Ancestry.com.  I put the connection printout from ancestry on the back of the page:

So Richard Warren and Francis Cooke both came over on the Mayflower and their kids Sarah Warren and John Cooke got married and had Mary who marreied a Hathaway (a popular name in the town where I grew up - Dartmouth, Massachusetts - I never knew we had Hathaways in our blood).    I knew about the Hammond connection.  But what is super interesting to me is that I figured all this out with the help of computers but I don't think that the past 3 or 4 generations knew all the super far back history.  We knew we went back far in New England's history - like my Grandfather was always taking us to the Whaling Museum and to Sturbridge Village - and we knew we were related to Revolutionary War Soldier Gideon Allen who was cousins with the furniture maker Ethan Allen - but I don't think anyone in the family knew we were on the Mayflower - like probably we were related to about 8-10 Mayflower passengers - and that this meant that we had distant cousins including at least 12 Presidents.  It is all quite fascinating. 

And I've checked out a bunch of books from the library on the Roosevelts - Franklin, Eleanor and Teddy were all rock stars in their own individual ways - and I would not have been likely to read their biographies on my own but now that I have a connection to them it is serious amazing.  And I can't wait to take stories from their lives and make scrapbook pages that are like life lessons for my kids - kind of like Aesop fables but with distant cousins who are famous.  I'm very excited about all this family history and try to work it into almost every conversation (which I understand is a common issue for genealogists - so being able to scrapbook about it will make me less boring conversationally since I'll be able to express all of this on the page and my family can have a little rest from all my family history excitement.)  It is very exciting!

Supplies:  Crate Paper Close Knit; Dear Lizzy Thickers / American Crafts; Martha Stewart butterfly punch; anchor paper clip brad / K&Company.

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