Catching Up on Scrapbook Pages

Little by little I am catching up on my scrapbooking. I like to scrapbook each of my children's school years. I try to ask them questions and note their responses, and in most cases, they don't remember what they have told me from year to year. This is part of what makes looking back through them so fun! Now, I didn't say I was all the way caught up, only getting caught up! Over the Labor Day weekend, I finished two pages: one for my oldest's 1st day LAST year and one for my middle child's 1st day LAST year. I have designs for the others I need to do. I was hoping to get baby brother's from preschool last year completed to share, but that didn't happen. Hopefully I will get completed this week.

Here's the first one. I used a Fiskars ad as inspiration. It looks very similar to theirs, but I thought it was neat and cute. I did add the white stitch along the top and bottom of the patterned papers -- I like a stitched look!

The primary color papers of blue and red came from a paper pack I got at Wal-Mart. They have some pretty nice paper for $5 a pack. The patterned paper is from SU!. The apple was cut from the Cricut Lite Recess cartridge. By the way, I'm having an issue with this cartridge and my Gypsy. I cannot cut with the Gypsy and this cartridge, but I can cut with it straight from the Cricut. I will be calling Provocraft tomorrow! I love this cartridge, and really need to use my Gypsy with it. I cut the "back to school" using Plantin.

Here's the second page. For this one, my inspiration came from a Scrapbooks Etc. page.

I used the Recess cartridge for the "School" cut, Plantin for "kindergarten", and DoodleCharms for the bus. All this paper came from Wal-Mart too. Also, the "kindergarten" is done in red vinyl. It is just so much easier to cut out the vinyl and it's usually a cleaner cut. Then, I use my transfer tape to place on the page. It lines up very nicely.

I have about 7 more pages I need to do to get caught up, then do a better job staying on top of it this year. I did do a little clean-up today with my paper and scraps. I will share that soon. I am very pleased with my solid cardstock and scraps, but not 100% on how I want to do my patterned paper yet. Plus, I would like to maintain my SU! paper in a labeled something so I can sync it up with ribbon, etc. Still thinking on best way to do this with limited space. Always something to do!