Scrapbooking | Papercrafting with Kelly Janes

Today I’m going to show you how I used the Later Sk8r Picture My Life™ {PML} kit!! My son’s first year of T-ball was a 3 years ago, and between my mom and myself we have way too many photos!!!! After printing the hundreds {yes, I said hundreds} of photos I had no idea on how I was going to scrapbook these pictures!! They all have been sitting in my photo box since they were printed waiting for me to come up with a creative way to use them!! I knew when I saw the PML kits that was how I would scrapbook all {or at least a large majority} of the photos! The photos below only display a few of the pages that were made just to give you an idea on how I used the kit.

I want to give you specifics on what you get when you purchase a kit. There are 8 different PML Kits available and each kit consists of: 44 – 4″ × 6″ Cards (2 each of 22 designs); 78 – 3″ × 4″ Cards (3 each of 26 designs); 1 – 12″ × 12″ Designed Cover Sheet; 10 – 12″ × 12″ Memory Protectors™ (various designs). There are a few items that you will need to put the kits together, including a paper trimmer, corner rounder, and journaling pen.

Now I did use some additional products {stamp sets, inks, Cricut® cartridge, etc on a few of these pages} to enhance the PML kit, but one of the great benefits of these kits is that you don’t have to use anything other than the kit itself! They look awesome just as they are! Many of the pages above do not have any additional embellishments! Not needing to add extra flair to the pages is a great way to scrapbook a large amount of photos quickly!!

Products Used-all products CTMH unless otherwise stated:

Paper: Later Sk8r Picture My Life™ Kit; Outdoor Denim Cardstock; Slate Cardstock

Stamps: Hopscotch Alphabet Stamp Set; All The Details Stamp Set; Lol Stamp Set

Ink: Outdoor Denim Exclusive Ink™; White Daisy {Pigment} Exclusive Ink™

Other: Corner Rounder; Journaling Pen {I used a SMASH™ pen}; Surecut™ Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer; Tape Runner Adhesive {I used Elmer’s}; Artbooking Cricut® Cartridge; Non-stick Micro-Tip Scissors; My Acrylix® Blocks; Sponge Dauber; Milepost Shapes {retired}

Are you interested in other ways these kits can be used?!? Click here to see a card I made using this same kit!!

Thanks for stopping by!

~Kelly

My husband and I went on a cruise in January 2012, and I haven’t even made a dent in my scrapbook. I took a little time this week to play around with the Tommy Paper Packet*.

After placing the blue B&T Duo™ {that I stitched} at the base of the cardstock, the White Daisy Cardstock seemed too bright. Using Honey Exclusive Ink™ and the My Hero Stamp Set I created a pattern on the white cardstock. The My Hero Stamp Set is one of the seven hostess exclusive stamp sets available in the Spring/Summer 2014 Idea Book. As an added incentive to hostesses, there are now stamp sets that are exclusively available to hostesses only! And to make it even better….they are discounted!!

Onto the embellishments…..I layered a couple tags from K & Company, using a sponge dauber and Outdoor Denim Exclusive Ink™ to define the edges of the tag. The title and little birdies come from the Tommy Complements*, and the pennants are from the Tommy Assortment*. The subtitle towards the top of the page was created using the Keyboard Uppercase Stamp Set and Outdoor Denim Exclusive Ink™.

The journaling is hidden underneath the red tag. I’ll simply cut a slit in my page protector and slide the top portion of the oval through the slit for easy reading. I’m not a fan of my handwriting, but I think it is important to include it in my scrapbooks. I like the look of the typed journaling, but then I think about how special the items that have my great-grandma’s handwriting on them. I think about how disappointing it would be to see those words typed, and I’m hoping my scrapbooks will be passed down through the generations!! There is just something so personal about a handwritten message, and I hope my great-great-great grandchildren will feel the same when they are flipping through my scrapbooks.

{*=retired product}

This scrapbook page is linked to the Heart 2 Heart So Very Nauti (Cool) Challenge.

-Kelly