Celebrate Childhood Memories With Precious G45 Layouts!
Hello G45ers,
Childhood is such a precious time! There are so many incredible moments that we experience as children, but especially as parents, grandparents, and family members of children. We have the splendid opportunity to share in the wonder and elation of our little one's lives. Today's Graphic 45 blog is dedicated to all the special kids in our lives that bring us so much joy everyday! We are going to share three gorgeous layouts that feature some fantastic kids! We've got An ABC Primer layout by Arlene Cuevas, a Secret Garden layout by Tara Orr and a Place in Time layout by Jane Tregenza! All of today's happy crafts are sure to fill you with inspiration for creating your own precious layout for a child that you love!
Don't forget that there's still time to leave us a blog or Facebook comment for your chance to win this week's blog prize! This is the amazing Place in Time prize pack that we're giving away this week. A randomly chosen winner will be announced on this Friday's blog so stay tuned!
First up is this darling 8x8 LO by Arlene Cuevas featuring An ABC Primer! Here Arlene gives some great tips for how she created this heartwarming and beautiful work of art!
"When you have kids and very little time to yourself, you often find it challenging to get some pages created for your scrapbook. For me, the challenge is being a little "too" detailed with my scrapbook pages sometimes! So it's quite refreshing to take a break from the distressing, painting, and multiple layers. With this 8x8 scrapbook page, I decided to keep things very simple and let "An ABC Primer" papers and Metal Staples do all the work! You can create simple layers by using cardstock, like I did on this page. The black cardstock really makes the papers pop and the layers really define the elements on the page. I tend to keep my embellishments either vertical or horizontal on simple pages. This keeps the eye leveled-out when looking at the page. I love the look of the metal Staples. I really wanted to incorporate the "Remember" clothespin onto the page without clamping it off to the side. So I disassembled the clothespin and just used 1 piece of it. I glued it flat onto the page, then added an ornate key in the "groove." Kind of a neat look, right? Creating a scrapbook page like this took me approximately 1 hour. Can you imagine how many scrapbook pages you can accomplish in 1 day?! So get cracking on that scrapbook that you've been putting off! I hope you give one of these simple layouts a try today." ~Arlene Cuevas
Supplies:
Graphic 45 Papers
Black and orange cardstock
Chipboard titles and words from Imaginarium Designs
3L photo corners Classic black
3L foam squares mixed
I love the match from the beautiful pictures with layers and layers of stunning graphic 45 papers!
Hava a nice day
Maia
Posted by: Maia | March 07, 2013 at 12:30 AM
Fantastic layouts!
Posted by: Sheron N | March 07, 2013 at 01:41 AM
Lovely collection. Fabulous layouts.
Posted by: Carol | March 07, 2013 at 02:44 AM
Lovely, lovely laysouts. Thank you for wonderful inspirations.
Posted by: Christine Schärfer | March 07, 2013 at 02:51 AM
I have only just discoverd Graphic 45 papers - they are exquisite! All these creations are really beautiful. Nicola x
Posted by: Paper Profusion | March 07, 2013 at 02:56 AM
What awesome layouts!!
Posted by: Laura G. | March 07, 2013 at 03:00 AM
Inspiring layouts!
Posted by: Lynn Campbell | March 07, 2013 at 03:49 AM
beautiful layouts and love the colors.
Posted by: Donna W | March 07, 2013 at 04:07 AM
Those children are so cute and look so happy - just like the layouts. Thank you Graphic 45 for sharing .
Posted by: Lynn G. | March 07, 2013 at 04:26 AM
Gorgeous layouts. G45papers make all the difference!!
Posted by: Cindy | March 07, 2013 at 04:47 AM
Wonderful & beautiful projects! I especially love the Secret Garden purple layout!! Of course, I love all of the Graphic 45 papers!!!
Posted by: Marlene | March 07, 2013 at 05:31 AM
Such great LO's!! And Jane just never ceases to amaze me with her work!
Posted by: HeatherDG | March 07, 2013 at 07:26 AM
each of these layouts is a wonderful tribute to special people! :)
Posted by: Jennifer Scull | March 07, 2013 at 07:42 AM
Beautiful LOs
Posted by: dogmatix | March 07, 2013 at 08:22 AM
Beautiful, beautiful layouts!!!
Posted by: shari (cricutrookie) | March 07, 2013 at 09:06 AM
Beautiful!!
Posted by: pitje | March 07, 2013 at 09:07 AM
Lovely layouts
Posted by: pitje | March 07, 2013 at 09:17 AM
Just beautiful - love Secret Garden!
Posted by: Marlene LaVarta | March 07, 2013 at 09:42 AM
Stunning! So detailed.
Posted by: AnnieS. | March 07, 2013 at 11:29 AM
This defintely awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All your layouts are gorgeous and inspiring. Thanks.
Posted by: Diane | March 07, 2013 at 07:04 PM
Fabulous layouts, really inspiring. Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: julia w | March 07, 2013 at 07:13 PM
Beautiful projects.
Posted by: Eugene Bellion | March 09, 2013 at 08:42 AM