Have you been over to the Simple Aussie Girls blog? It is a relatively new collaborative effort of a group of Australian mums who decided to start a blog to share clean and simple pages. Pages that make the journalling the most important feature. Count me a fan! The design and the photos are wonderful too, but I love the focus on the stories.
A while back, my friend-in-the-computer Amy, contacted me about submitting a couple of layouts.
I was flattered! I am flattered!
My layouts were featured a few days ago. I received a couple of comments on the SAG blog as well as on FaceBook, so here are the layouts including materials list and a blurb about each:
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MATERIALS: Cardstock: Bazzill | Printed Paper: Little Yellow Bicycle | Stickers: Basic Grey, Heidi Swapp |
Font: VT Portable Remington
I always find "white space" to be a bit of a challenge. To keep it all cohesive and balanced is not always easy. I think this layout works. My pages are all very representative of our everyday life as opposed to the big occasions. The longer I scrapbook the less photos I use on each page. One photo represents the story or the mood and the journaling puts it all together.
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MATERIALS: Cathy Zelske template - retired (from Design Your Life course) | Papers: All old, all free and all before I figured out how to save properly: lynng-crisp-2, PinkPeacock_Talkative_Paper1 | Fonts: Dymo, Agnes.
I want my scrapbook albums to be authentic and honest. Raising children is hard. I don't want, when they look back at their stories, to give the illusion that life growing up was easy or perfect. That would set my kids up with unrealistic expectations when it's time for them to be parents themselves. At the same time, I want to relay to them that humour is key. So, with humour and love, I make real pages.
It was so nice to "meet" the ladies over at the Simple Aussie Girls blog. I wish them all the success in the world! I love everything they represent :) If you haven't been over, be sure to give them a visit.
