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!

Finding Photo Freedom

I have been participating in Stacy Julian's Finding Photo Freedom class (aka Library of Memories) over at Big Picture Classes.  It has been an amazing experience!  It has caused me to organize my photos in a new way and to think very differently about how to organize my layouts.

Until now I have kept strictly chronological albums.  I scrapped out of order but kept layouts in order in my albums.  Now I am going to try Stacy's approach of organizing them into categories: All About Us, People We Love, Things We Do, and Places We Go.  I plan to use this system moving forward but I'm not going to go back and pull all my old layouts to sort in this way.  I'm leaving well enough alone!  :)  So for right now I have all layouts in one album, just divided by category.  As it starts to fill up I'll move each topic into it's own album.  Which is where these title pages come in...

I kept the layout design the same for each title page.  It was inspired by a classmate in Finding Photo Freedom.  I made the photo grid in PSE printed it out and backed it with paper.

I've assigned a theme color for each category.  So on the title page I used that color in the title block, on the photo mat, the ribbon and the tab.  Then I used the other three colors on the accent squares.

On the accent blocks I used versamark ink to stamp hearts and one word.  It can be hard to see in the photo because it is tone on tone but I love how it looks in person!

I also found a quote for each category.  Some were in a Quote Stack book I had so I printed the others on vellum so that the style would match.

And there you have it.  My new title pages for each category in my Finding Photo Freedom/Library of Memories album.  Yipee!




















How do you organize your albums?  Have you ever made a title page for an album?  If you were to divide your pages into these categories which one do you think would fill up first?  I'd love to hear your thoughts!