Math Man

Usually my ideas for pages comes from a photo or a story, but this layout was inspired by paper.

When I saw this number paper I knew I had to use it on a page about my son.  He has been astounding me with his math skills from a very young age.  During his Kindergarten year I saved one of his math worksheets knowing I wanted to use it on this page, but I didn't have any pictures.  Then during Week in the Life I took some pictures of him working on a math page and knew I had the makings of my page!

My layout design came from this lovely page by Ali Edwards.  I adored the simplicity but also how it used a piece of child made ephemera.

My tag cluster includes one of Ali Edwards digital tags, a plain old shipping tag with my son's initial, and a label sticker.  I used blue gems and edged the shipping tag with the same tone of blue from the star on my son's school paper.

Because I used a second picture in the spot where Ali had journaling I created a skinny strip of journaling.  This may just be one of my new favorite pages!  And in case you are wondering about where this page goes in my Library of Memories I decided to put it in All About Us because it honors a part of my son's personality.  A case could have been made for putting it in Things We Do, but for me the journaling caused it to be more of a All About Us page.  Totally personal preference when it comes to categorizing pages!




















Are you math minded or glad to never have to take a math class again?  Are your kids good at something that just amazes you?  Ever use a school paper on a scrapbook page?  I'd love to hear all about it!