Boxer Scrapbooks Design Team

8x8 dog page

We have had a new puppy in our house for about a month now.  I think I have at least 10 pictures for each day that we have had Max.  So it is time to start his own scrapbook.  I think 8x8 will be the perfect size.  So here is page one.  Sorry, I don't have pictures actually printed yet.  I tend to just be in the collection of photos on the computer, save till there are at least 1,000 to print at once, just do the pages for now,  stage. 

Boxer Supplies Used: Dog talk paper, Bunch-o-bones paper, black and white paw paper, small brown dot paper, Pet Stripe paper (GHP), 5/8 inch black rick rack, 1/4 tan rick rack, 1/4 inch red rick rack, Dog Lover's Button jar mix, Antique bone clips, Dog Lover's twine, Dog Lover's Ribbon pack, glue dots.

Additional supplies: black ink pad, black cardstock

So until next time, I will continue to take pictures of my Beagle puppy, Max, and save the photos but will try to get some printed for the next pages.

Happy Scrapping,

Laura

 

 

Folded flowers and buttons

My cousin is having a baby girl and the baby shower was on Saturday.  I needed a gift and with a room full of scrapbook supplies, I thought I could come up with something.  I found this shadow box style frame and it was perfect for those folded flowers and buttons on this layout.  And my cousin loved it - she can't wait to add a photo of her little bundle of joy!

Boxer Supplies used:  Papers - Princess Paisley, Small Green Dot, Dark Pink Dot, Pink Stripes, Dark Pink Gingham, Bright Green buttons, Raspberry buttons, white twine, Glue dots, Fold Back Swirls template (HOTP)

Additional Supplies - Green and white cardstock, green and pink ink pads.

So Happy Scrapping - till next time.

Laura

 

 

Christmas Layout

This one is using Gallopin Horse Productions' Christmas Paper Pack, cardstock stickers, and printed die-cuts.

 

Christmas layout

My scrapbooking has been all over the board lately.  Christmas, Summer, birthdays....  So here's a Christmas one.  The green paper is from Galloping Horse Productions' camping line, but it screamed Christmas to me!  Red paper is Boxer's red and white swirls paper.  Top it off with a little grosgrain ribbon and a few brads and voila!

 

Cuddle Bug 8x8 page

I love black and white photos.  They just seem timeless.  Then the options to use any color combinations of papers and embellishments is limitless. 
I used the Fold Back Swirls template to create the flowers and the Swirly Doodles template for the stems.  The Girls Titles transparency is perfect as overlays on the photo.

Boxer Products used: Princess paisley, Green Gingham,  Bright Pink dot, Bright green dot, Bright Pink Gingham, Princess stripe papers, bright pink grosgrain, jade and bubblegum mini brads, Girl Titles transparency, glue dots, and HOTP Fold Back Swirls template

Additional supplies: white and green cardstock

So until next time...

Happy Scrapping,

Laura

Sketch of the month Designers Challenge

  
This is my spin of the designers challenge. I tweaked a couple of items, but it is very similar to the sketch below. If you don't want to create a scrapbook page you could use the same sketch to create a very nice card, or anything that inspires you.

Supplies: GHP Primary Pipeline 403 paper, Cardstock & craft string

Becky

Sketch of the month - January layout

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2011 from all of us at Boxer HQ and the Boxer Design Team. 2011 is going to be hopping here on the design team blog, we have LOTS planned this year with a bigger, better and more active blog. Each week we plan on sharing new projects and also challenging you to join in the fun.

 

Each of us on the design team has strengths, things we excell at, and mine is design. I LOVE making sketches, and so I thought what better than to share some of those on the Boxer blog!!! So each month we'll be dedicating a week to a featured sketch of the month. As I love creating sketches for both layouts and cards I figured we'd alternate months, starting this month with a layout sketch.

 

This month you'll be seeing this design again as our talented team share their creations inspired by the sketch. Today though you get to see my layout with the sketch.

Boxer supplies: small pink polka dot paper; white 5/8" rick rack; Small Fish Lovers Alpha ; Large Fish Lovers Alpha; Princess Stamp Set, white mini brad; photo turns small black;

 

Look for more sketch inspiration throughout January. And please feel free to share any layouts you make with the sketch in the comments! Link us up to your blog so we can see your creations :)

 

Happy scrapbooking!

 

Di

 

 

Geometrics layout

Dog Geometric paper, Woof Stripes paper, Red 1/4 inch grosgrain ribbon.

Enjoy!

Nancy   

Home is where the dog is

We love our crazy pups, and we have three (yes, three) to keep us busy. When we brought home our Chihuahua pup, our older sheepdog got the baby she never had. She mothers him, but tolerates him chewing on her like a toy, all the while protecting him from our German Shepherd puppy.

Boxer has so many great products for showing off those captured moments. Here I used Woof Words, Brown Argyle, Brown Dot, and Bunch-A-Bones papers, along with the new Dog Chipboard Accents and some red mini brads.

Other: Cardstock

Tina

 

 

 

Grandpa and Me

Boxer supplies used on this layout:  Brown Argyle paper, Dog Geometric Paper (one of my new favorites!).

Enjoy!

Nancy 

Mixed supply layout

I got to go to a crop this weekend - woo hoo!  It's a treat I manage only a few times a year so when I do go, I revel in the moment.  I'd packed up some photos and basic Boxer supplies, but once i got to the crop I realized that I hadn't brought my entire craft room, lol.  I needed some yellows to go with my layout, so this layout is about half Boxer, half other stuff.

It's nice to be able to do a layout with 100% products from one company like Boxer because you know everything'll match.  But it doesn't have to be that way - mix, match, and come up with your own stuff.  I believe the yellow damask that's the base of the layout is from American Crafts.

Blue dot paper, Psalms transparency, Crosses transparency, Yellow button mix, 1/4 inch rick-rack.

Enjoy!

Nancy

Couples layout

Lots of patterned paper and other goodies here...

Green and blue plaid, Dark blue gingham, Yellow dot, Yellow gingham, Library card asst. pack, White 4 inch tags, Dog Lover's mega alphabet stickers, Yellow grosgrain ribbon, Nickel D-style tie-backs, Happy Valentines Day single stamp (with Valentine portion of the greeting cut away - extra use!), Stitchin' ruler, and Nickel mini-brads.   

Purrfect Passions chipboard album: Pg 3

Page 4 of my Purrfect Passions mini album features my hubby's luscious enchiladas, Tabbed Chipboard Album, Cat paisley, Orange Gingham, and  Brown Dot Paper, Brown Buttons, and In the Kitchen transparency.

Tina

Working on Walking

Lots of fun stuff here!

Pink Paisley patterned paper, Green gingham patterned paper, Turquoise Houndstooth patterned paper, pink tags, bright green button mix, Girlie Greetings chipboard accents.white mini brads.

Enjoy!    
 

Soar!

When in doubt - layer patterned paper!  I love the way Boxer's patterned papers coordinate so beautifully.

Turquoise Tropic Flowers paper, Turquoise Dot paper, Yellow Gingham paper, and XL Metal-rimmed tags   

Purrfect Passions chipboard album: Pg 1 & 2

Finished the first two pages in my album. It seemed only right that my family come first, since they do in life also.  I had a lot of fun playing with combining new products with older ones, and using some in new ways, like using the small dot from the Spring clear stamp set to make a dotted border around my gingham circles.

Tina

Products used: Butterfly Garden, Small Dark Pink Dot, and Green Gingham papers. Yellow Die Cut Flowers, Orange 1/8" eyelets, Spring, Winter, Invite Me, and Calendar Numbers Background clear stamp sets.

Other: Ink, Glitter Pen, Circle Punches.

Stryder

I was having a great time with this layout of our little "chi-man". He is such a ham for the camera and these red dog papers worked so well with the black and white photo. I also used red craft paint on the back of the transparency pieces and read ink around  to tie it all together.

Tina

Materials used: Fire Hydrant and Dog Talk papers, Bow Wow Transparency, Nickel Label Holder, Red Mini Brads, Silver Circle Clips , Red Buttons, Horse Lovers Alphabet Stickers. Other: Pigment Ink, Craft Paint, Cardstock.

Magical Adventure

Here is another scrapbook layout using the new Magical line!  I created the Mickey ears with 3 chipboard pieces. With all the new chipboard that was released you can do this as well on your pages, with the red, black or even the pink ones for your little Disney princess.

Boxer supplies used: Red dots paper, Magical Memories chipboard , Yellow button mix, Magical Memories ribbon, Mickey hands Boxer cuts.

Thanks for stopping by!

Chrys  

Bright and Sophisticated New Products!

This is an older photo of my daughter that I had been waiting to scrapbook. It had to have just the right feel. This mix of bright with black and white was exactly what I had been looking for. Supplies used include Black and White Paisley, Black and White Stripe, and Small Turquoise Dot papers, Turquoise and Red Buttons, Photo Turns, Red 1/4" Rick Rack, Celebrate Chipboard Accents, Princess Stamp Set, Horse Lovers Alphabet Stickers, and Light Blue and Red Mini Brads.

Tina

Updating older layouts with new products

Sometimes it's good to look at past layouts and see how we can improve them. On this layout the old background paper was the lavender polka dots, which worked ok overall but didn't really go 100% with the page layout. When the new papers were released and I saw the pink argyle I thought it would be a great choice for updating the look of this page and I was right! On this page: New pink argyle paper, trike paper, start your engines stamps, brads, and photo anchors.

I recently made another page with the Boxer ballet stamps and papers but the new Boxer embossed cardstock flowers really make it POP now! On this page: Ballet paper, Ballet stamps, New pink cardstock flowers, and brads.

More projects from me every Saturday!

Di

Layouts with new Dog papers!

If you've paid close attention to the Boxer blog over the past few years, you'll know that I absolutely ADORE the doggy papers! They were what drew me to Boxer, made me apply for the Design Team and honestly I could scrap forever with their doggy papers :) I love scrapping my dogs but for this layout I decided to scrap a page for a friend, and specifically her dog Guido.

This page features both new and old dog products, again Boxer going the extra mile to update those older papers by coordinating them to the newer papers! Awesome! Here is the new Bone paper with the older woof words and woof stripes paper. Also on this page is part of the new new dog transparency!

The layout is completed with bone ribbon, brads, metal embellishments, alphabet stickers and dog bone charm all from Boxer! I also used the stitching ruler for the hand stitching.

On the layout below I combined those same papers, new bone paper, woof words and woof stripes, with the new dog transparency and a photo of one of my furbabies. This is Sky :)

Also on this layout are ric rac, grosgrain ribbon, brads and a metal rim tag. Love how everything coordinates down to the exact color match!

More projects soon!

Di

Princess layout - new papers!

I am loving the new pink papers from Boxer!!! I especially love how they coordinate with some of the older papers in the Boxer store, for example the new crown paper, and new pink polka dot paper go great with the existing pink gingham paper! So cool that Boxer do this!!!

Also on this page are the new Boxer princess stamp set and new luggage tags! Loving those luggage tags!!! To finish off the page I used Boxer brads, ribbon and stickers.

More projects coming soon!

Di

Sneak Peek at Boxer NEW RELEASES!

Hi Everyone! Popping in today to give you all a sneak peek at some of the NEW RELEASES coming your way! Seriously I think the Boxer Design Team is in heaven right now, I know I am! So many new papers, new stamps, new chipboard, new flowers and so much more coming!!!

The layout below features the newest Boxer patterned papers featuring black and white paisley (be still my heart!) and the new daisy print paper. Also new on this page are the Princess stamps and the awesome embossed die-cut flowers!!!

I'm sure all the team will be sharing more of their projects using the new supplies over the upcoming few days/weeks! More to come over the upcoming Saturdays from me! Including cards from the new sentiment stamp set!!!

Di

Halloween Kitties layout

I'm a scrap saver.  If it's bigger than a couple of square inches, it gets stored in a plastic tub by color family.  :-)

Here's one of my favorite ways to use scraps.

Supplies:

1 3/8 inch ric-rac,  1/4 inch grosgrain ribbon, Orange gingham patterned paper,  Spooky patterned paper,  Fat cats patterned paper,  Black dot patterned paper.

Enjoy!  Nancy 

Back to school Calendar

September is back to school in our neck of the woods, so I thought why not transfer that theme to a calendar page? The Boxer calendars are really great for kid projects!

I used the Calendar papers on this page plus some calendar stickers and alphabet stickers. You really don't need to go overboard on the designs of these pages. Nice and simple is usually the way to go, especially for the smaller sizes!

Boxer Products used: School paper; green gingham paper; 8x8 calendar; Calendar stickers; alphabet stickers

More calendar pages coming soon!

Di

Chipboard mini album/desk art

In need of a quick, fun, and easy gift idea? Mini albums that can also be used as a freestanding desk art are a fun idea. This album could also be done vertically and hung from a ribbon as a wall piece. For attaching the pieces, I used hinges, but used mini brads in place of the screws that came with the hinges. You could also use ribbon, or Flip Flop Fasteners.  It was great to come up with a piece for my hubby's desk and be able to put it all together in one afternoon! The Dog Lover's coordinating products made it easy.

Tina

Products used: Small Rectangle Chipboard Album, Brown Argyle, Brown Dot, Woof Words, and Dog Breeds papers. Dog Lovers Cardstock Stickers, Dog Lovers Clear Stamp Set, Woof Grosgrain Ribbon, Dog Bones Grosgrain Ribbon, Brown Button Mix, Red Button Mix, Black 1 3/8" rick rack. Other: Inks, pop dots.

 

Cheep Shot

This week I thought I'd share a layout I had published in the April Issue of Scrapstreet Magazine. The layout is based on a sketch by Michelle McClung. The center portion of the layout with the photo, title scallop and journaling was created in photoshop and then printed. Simply cut it out and then assembled the layout traditionally.

Supplies: Yellow polka dot paper; green gingham paper; plum mini brads;

I love how the layout turned out! The title is a play on words, kinda corny but I think it works!

Di

We love movies!

I have always been a huge movie fan. When I was a kid, thrillers and horror movies were my favorites. During my teen years it was rock musicals, now I love action and drama, although I will watch almost anything. My family shares this love of movies, so it is no wonder our favorite thing is to dim the lights, curl up under blankets, and turn on a DVD or Blu Ray. Do you love movies, too? Boxer has these great new movie themed stamps to make all of your scrapbook pages center stage!

Tina

Products used: Black Dot, Large Black Dot, Black Gingham, and Red and Black Argyle papers. Movie Night Clear Stamps.

Dinomite stamps

Our daughter has loved dinosaurs since before she was three. It started with the Land Before Time moved on to Jurassic Park. When she was four, I found her setting up all of her little Kelly dolls and their petting zoo, then making her toy dinos attack them all! Kids are so funny!

Boxer makes so many fun dinosaur products that creating great cards and layouts is easy. These projects were easy and fun. I used a craft knife and pop dots to make the stamped images that are layered on the scrapbook pages.

Enjoy!

Tina

 

Supplies used: Dino Stamp Set , Dino Species Paper, Blue Paisley paper, Green Dot Multi paper, Red Button mix,  Invite Me stamp set.  I used the Over the Hill tearing ruler to make the template for the grass background on the Dino-Mite card.

Frogs, frogs and more frogs!

 

Can I just tell you how much I LOVE this new feelin' froggy paper!!  It is so good for so many things.  I have been on a quest to scrap some of my daughter's baby pictures...only about 13 years late...but I am getting there!  LOL  Her favorite bathtoy was a little frog.  How perfect that I had this paper!! 

~Shannon

Slam Dunk

This page was quick and fun to create. All it took was some inks, white cardstock, and the Basketball Clear Stamp Set. First I stamped a page border using phrases from the set, then I stamped the basketball, jersey, and basket, adding accents with red and black markers. I cut those out and mounted them with pop dots. I added the title and some pen accents for a layout to show off my daughter's excitement about seeing a big game!

Tina

Funky Frogs

OK, I admit, the first time I saw this new frog paper that Boxer was releasing, I could not WAIT until it arrived at my door so I could start playing with it!  Seriously...complete awesomeness!!  And to make it even better...I just so happened to have some pictures of my son "gettin down" to his new musical frog.  I can hear it singing as I sit here typing!  "Hey Shorty...it's your birthday...we're gonna party like it's your birthday! "  Probably because he has played that thing no less than a million times since he got it.  But watching him try to break dance as only a 7 year old can was just hilarious!  By the way, adding some google eyes to the frogs really make them pop off the page and are great to use on pages, like I did here...or even on a card!  So many possibilities!!

 

Supplies:  Frog Paper, National Geographic Paper, Fish Lover Alpha Stickers

~Shannon

Pretty new papers...

How awesome are the newly released patterned papers???  I just couldn't resist this monochromatic layout mixing older Boxer Basics with the new Floral patterned paper.  They just work so well together.  Add in a bracket for a fun title...and voila!

 

Products Used: 

Patterned Paper:  Tropic Flowers, Black Dots, Black gingham; Brass Label Holder

~Shannon

February Calendar Page

I mentioned last month that I planned on sharing my calendar pages throughout the year so here is my half page calendar for February. I'm actually LOVING this size calendar for many reasons, though the main one is that the photo's I used are just 3"x4" which means I get 2 per standard 6"x4" print!

Supplies: Half Page Calendar; Calendar stickers; Hearts on pink calendar paper; red & pink diagonal stripe calendar paper; Fish Lovers Mega Alpha stickers;

I kept the design for this layout pretty simple to show off the gorgeous papers! Just cut the papers to size and layer. Mount the photo onto red cardstock, and adhere to the layout, tilting gives interest to the page. I wanted to add a "title" other than the month, so I used the mega alphabet stickers for a S.W.A.K  (sealed with a kiss) title.

The photo is of me and my husband taken many many years ago in a photobooth! Back before everything went digital! lol!

Di

Who could use a little sun right now??

I know I could!!!  The high today...NEGATIVE ONE!  So in honor of warmer weather...here is a fun summer layout to help us stay warm!!  Products used:  Blue Dot Paper,Blue Stars--Boxer Basics, Boxer Basics Red Dots Paper, Dog Lovers Mega Alphabet Stickers, Rick Rack and Summer Stamp Set   

  ~Shannon

Boxer has gone to the DOGS!

But truth be told...I'm a long time Boxer pet line follower!!  Lucky for me, I have had the opportunity to work with the newest of Boxer's pet line papers that were released last Winter.  The best thing is...they are still totally compatible with the older embellishments like the ribbon.  Even the letter stickers go perfectly!  Good thing...because we've got a LOT of dog photos to scrap!!  Here is my father-in-law's precious poochy...Pongo... 

~Shannon

The Neighs Have It!

Have you tried some of Boxer's wonderful Gingham papers??  They are so easy to use and match well with so many other products. 

I wanted to scrap these pictures of my children from last summer when we went horseback riding.  Boxer has the perfect horse lovers kit that mix and match so well.  It's quite a value, really because you can use the papers and vellums and stickers on so many projects.  Now add in the Horse Lover Transparency and you truly have enough supplies for an entire themed album!!  Giddy Up Partner!!

~Shannon

Calendar Pages!

As one month ends, and another begins I look forward to sharing my calendar pages for 2009 during the year! Boxer has so many blank calendars for you to customize. Last year I primarily used the 8x8, this year I'm focusing on the half page and the 6x6. The half page is for my office, and the smaller 6x6 works great on the fridge!

Today I'm going to share my half calendar January 2009 page. Here in California it's our snow season, which means SNOWBOARDING! We went already in December when we got the first decent storm of the season but things should be REALLY good in January! This layout features a photo of me snowboarding on my Birthday a couple of weeks ago! One of the rare occasions I was standing upright! lol!

Supplies: Half Page Calendar; Calendar stickers; Papers: snowflakes on blue; snowflakes on white; blue dots; contemporary holiday words paper; Midnight blue mini brads; 1/4" White rick rack; Happy Holidays Transparency;

I used my trimmer to trim off strips from the papers then just adhered randomly to form the background. Add cardstock, photo and a bunch of embellishments for a cool snow themed page!

Happy New Year!

Di

Baby's First Christmas

Ho Ho Ho, and Happy Holidays!

With two young kids in the house, Christmas is a 24-hour-a-day obsession.  Ric-rac is the perfect trim for Christmas projects.  I made this easy layout about my daughter's first Christmas using ric-rac as a border around my patterned paper.  A yard of thin ric-rac goes perfectly around a 9 inch square. 

Supplies:

peppermint patterned paper, Gingerbread patterned paper, 1/4 inch ric rac, Red grosgrain ribbon, XL Metal-rimmed tags.

Enjoy!  Nancy Korf

My baby...

in this picture is now nearly a teenager!  Funny how she gets older and I stay so young!  LOL  But most of her baby pictures were taken BS (before scrapbooking), so I have had to try and find ways to make them more appealing.  Many times I choose "the best one" from a group of shots.  I have also decided to scrap in 8.5x11 landscape because most of her pictures are 3.5x5 sized.  This size works perfectly with many of Boxer's transparencies. 

I used the Girl Transparency on this one and attached it using a sticker from the Butterfly Garden collection.  But Boxer products are really easy to use together.  I used papers from the Butterfly Garden collection for the homemade flower and a piece from the calendar collection for my main accent piece.  Add in some letter stickers for a title and a button and rick rack for accents and my page is complete.  A girlie page for my not-so-girlie girl!  Of course, back then, I thought she might be!

~Shannon 

Autumn Splendor

I was inspired by Nancy's inche layout to create this layout using Boxer Scrapbook's fall colors.

Boxer Scrapbook products used:Orange Gingham, brown gingham, Orange argyle, brown small stripe, orange small stripe, brown buttons, orange buttons.

Other supplies: leaf punches, sun punch, apple punch, hemp string, cricket die cuts.

Becky

High School Musical 3

Has anyone been drug to this by their kids yet?  My 12 year old daughter insisted we go on opening weekend.  As you can see from her reaction...she really liked it!  LOL  As soon as we got back, I knew exactly how I wanted to scrap this.  Boxer's Music Note paper made the perfect background for this.  I even cut out a picture of the main characters (Troy and Gabrielle) from a book cover that my daughter had lying around.  A perfect way to document the pop culture of her generation!

~Shannon

Snow much fun!

In light of all the snow our western US has been getting, I thought it appropriate to add a snow-inspired layout.  Boxer has such great winter-inspired papers, stamps and transparencies!  For this layout, I used the Boxer Christmas Stamp Set  to create this cute little snowman beneath my title.  The title consists of Boxer Blue Stripes paper (cut into a snowflake) and Fish Lover's Large Alpha Stickers.  Another fun thing I tried on this layout was punching out words from the Snow Transparency and add them to my box of pictures to add additional shape and interest to the page.  For the pictures, I mounted them onto cardstock and then onto Snowflakes on Blue paper and then again onto cardstock to make the pictures and paper pop!    ~Shannon

 

Mail's here!

I've been playing in the February papers this week.  I needed a change from the fall things I've been working on! 

I found these little mailboxes at Target last spring and set off to altering one. 

And, a little page from a calendar I made for Bella last fall.   

Miranda F

In this submission: Dark Pink Gingham Paper , Hearts on Pink 12 x 12 Paper , Red & Pink Diagonal Stripe 12 x 12 Paper, Bright Pink 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon, Red Mini Brads , White Mini Brads, Calendar Extras Stamp Set, Red 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon, White 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon Large Calendar Sticker--New Design

Ric-Rac, Ric-Rac, Rah! Rah! Rah!

I've always loved ric-rac.  When I was a little girl, my mom used to sew many of my clothes and I remember how much fun it was to go through her basket of trims and admire the different colors of ric-rac, zippers, and ribbons.  Maybe I got my love of color and of collecting from her.  :-)

Needless to say, I'm in love with Boxer's new ric-rac.  Here's a layout I did last night with the 1 3/8 inch ric-rac.  My DD was a ladybug for Halloween and black ric-rac and buttons were perfect for her pix.  The top portion of the background is stamped and stippled.  I masked off a border of 1 inch all the way around my white cardstock and used the Butterfly Garden stamp set to stamp inside the border.  Other Boxer supplies:  Organdy ribbon, Dark Pink Gingham paper, Dog Lover's Mega Alphabet Stickers, metal-rimmed tags.

Nancy

Stitchin' Ruler Layout

Here is the completed layout from last week's layout base.  I went frugal on the consumable supplies this week, since not every page needs to be a $20.00 page, LOL.  You only need two sheets of basic white cardstock, three sheets of patterned paper, and a few doo-dads to spruce up the layout.  To save weight, paper and money, I used an online photo processor that offers borders around the photo in dozens of colors, so the photos that look like they're matted with solid-color card-stock are not matted at all.

Stitchin' Ruler, Butterfly Garden stamp set, Pink Paisley paper, Dark Pink Gingham paper, Yellow Gingham paper, Tie-Backs ("D" style in nickel),  Label Holder (aluminum),  Grosgrain ribbon. Other items: embroidery thread, paper piercer, pink ink.

Enjoy!

Nancy

In Stitches

Here I am, using the same base for a layout again, LOL.  But this one is totally different than last week's  Halloween layout.  Change of color, change of papers, change of embellishments and voila!  This time, I used white cardstock as the base and three pieces of patterned paper.

Pink Paisley 12x12 butterfly garden paper

Dark Pink Gingham 12x12 paper

Yellow Gingham 12x12 paper

One of my favorite Boxer tools of all time is the Stitchin' Ruler, which I used to embellish the LO.  I love stitching on my pages, and the stitchin' ruler helps me do it quickly and evenly.  Here are two close-ups of stitches.

Enjoy!

Nancy

Halloween Layout

Last Sunday, I started with a simple pattern and added several layers to make it more complex.  Today, I present you with the final layout with photos and embellishments.  Whether your style is clean and simple or super-embellished or grunged everywhere, I hope you've enjoyed my mini-dissection of the process.

Nancy K

Supplies used:

Spooky Halloween Paper

Boxer Basics Black Dot paper

Grosgrain ribbon in purple, bright green and orange

Dog Lovers Mega Alphabet Stickers

Buttons in purple and bright green

Photo turns, "leaf-style" black

Trick or Treat 3/8" grosgrain ribbon

Black Mini Brads

Other supplies - black, purple and orange cardstock, black paint, black ink. 

October Calendar

Wow October already!Soon be the holidays at the rate this year is ZOOMING by! I thought today I'd share with you my Boxer Scrapbooks calendar for October.

Boxer Scrapbooks Products:  8x8 Calendar, Small Calendar Stickers, Calendar stamps

Close up of the layout portion of the calendar

Boxer Scrapbooks Supplies: Spooky Paper; Fall Stripes Paper; Trick or Treat Grosgrain Ribbon; Orange buttons; Orange mini brads; Other: Cardstock; Font: Viner Hand ITC;

From layout, to sketch, to layouts!

Some days, I feel like scrapbooking but I'm not in the mood to come up with a fresh new design.  Also, with the pitter-patter of kids' feet all over our house, I don't have as much time as I used to and I want to make the most of the time that I *do* have.  That's when I look for a sketch or a layout I can re-create.

Using a sketch or another scrapbooker's layout for inspiration is *NOT* a revolutionary idea, but I thought I'd do it with a tiny twist.  I started with a layout, broke it down into a sketch, then built it back up a layer at a time.  I'm hoping my little exercise in reconstruction might spark a little inspiration for you.

My project started out with a great-looking layout at my local scrapbook store.  The owner, Sheri Fisher, created the layout and I'm using her design with permission.  Thanks, Sheri!  Her layout was a lovely mix of rich brown and green with a touch of light pink, but I was thinking Halloween.  I took a photo of her layout with my phone and decided to reinterpret it with Boxer's Halloween papers.  Gotta love technology!  My phone is great for taking pix of little things that inspire me.  I even got it out at the dentist's office a few days ago to take a picture of an ad for cosmetic dentistry because it had a great format, LOL!

Once home, I made a sketch of the layout.  The basic supply list is - 2 sheets of 12x12 black cardstock for the layout base, 1 sheet of 12x12 purple cardstock for layering, and 2 sheets of Boxer's patterned paper for embellishment.  Cut a 1x12 inch strip from the purple paper, then cut it in half to make two 6-inch strips.  Then make one more cut on the purple paper, separating it into a 4x11 and a 8x11 piece.  Cut black dot paper into two 6x6 squares and set aside the left-overs for cards or another layout.  Cut the Halloween paper into two 2x12 strips and one 3x11 strip and set aside the leftovers for cards or another layout.  The pieces come together simply and quickly, like this:

From here, there are lots of ways to place your photos.  Try a 5x7 on top of the black-dot square on the left side of the layout, leaving room for a title down the side and journaling above the photo.  A 4x6 photo fits perfectly on top of the black dot paper on the right side of the layout, with another 4x6 alongside it.  And the long purple stripe would be perfect for two 3x5 or three 3x3 photos.

To add a little more oomph to the layout without a lot of extra time, make one more cut to the purple paper.  Trim two inches off of the the 4x11 strip to be used as a tag.  Round the corners of several (or all) of your papers.  It's a quick change, but adds a bit of nice detail.

This would make a totally cute layout just as it is, adding photos and journaling.  ...but I can't leave it alone...  I'm an inker and a layerer to the core!  Here are a few more versions of the layout, playing with more layering and showing a few ideas for photo placement.

 

Next week, I'll show you how I finished my layout with photos and embellishments.  Also, if I can get my first grader to model his Red Power Ranger costume, I'll show just how versatile the same sketch can be with a change of papers, photos and embellishments.

Have a great rest of your weekend - Nancy