Scrappy Halloween!

Halloween is in full swing at Papercut Kitchen! You spend so much time figuring out fantastic costumes you need a fantastic place for your pictures. Premade mini album and page layouts are perfect for your spooky pics! Click any image to go to the listing.

Snow? Ohh! Scrapbook Layout

Promised you new layouts featuring my bitty's first year yesterday and already delivering! You may want to duck, it's been a long time since I've been so on top of something and it's bound to lead to mass chaos!

I'm going simple with my personal page layouts these days and relying heavily on printed papers to do the work for me. I'm just so poor, in time and money, that this is all I can handle...that way I can splurge for my Papercut Kitchen goodies!

Boy Little Scrapbook Layout

You know those dreams where you're trying desperately to run but you move like you're running through a beach of molasses? That's the way it's been for me since this weekend. A little bit of everything is getting done but nothing is getting done thoroughly or very well. I have managed to do a few more personal scrapbook pages, yippee! I've decided it's time I wrapped up my 3 year old's baby book for his first year. These pages are from his 8th month, I'm a smidge behind.

I've been intentionally going simple so I can make some progress but as simple as this layout is I really like it. It's some nice rough and tumble boy paper and simple cut from coordinating paper embellishment. The brads holding the stars on the right hand side spell "boy" and under it are sticker letters that spell "little". Boy Little is what we called Lil' Spitfire when he was a baby. It was his super hero name.

How To Live Like a Rockstar

I just did this scrapbook layout of Lil' Spitfire, my youngest boy, when he was about 8 months old. He's now 2.5 years old, that's how behind I am! I'm loving how this turned out and the papers I used, Extreme Boy by junkitz. It's hard to find rockin' boy papers and embellishments but they did well with this line. It gets my raised in the air, pumping rock fist of approval! Hmm, get it while you can, I just read that junkitz is going out of business. I'll have to see what cool things I can find elsewhere.

It's pretty unusual for me to do a page with only one photo on it, most of my layouts are more like the second page, as many pics as I can reasonably cram on the page. I take too many pics that I like not to put as many as possible on each page, it would cost me a fortune and a million years if I didn't. I was really needing some good creative freedom, since I haven't scrapped in awhile, so I allowed myself this luxury. Totally worth it!

Each flaming star has a tip from Lil' Spitfire on How to Live Like a Rock star. Let him school you in the ways of the rocker: 1). Up all night, sleep all day 2). Live on the bottle 3). Perfect the slouch 4). Rage against the machine 5). Dress like you didn't try 6). Learn to play guitar--sort of