Marching Band ~ More Pocket Pages!

Happy Friday!  I was looking through my blog the other day and noticed this post in my drafts folder & realized I never finished up posting my son's band pages from Junior year. And... I still have all of Senior year to share as well. I guess I should get busy!

For these pages, I used an assortment of supplies from various kits I had on hand ~ Ali Edwards story kits, Hip Kit Club, Elle's Studio, and Felicity Jane. 

Have a Great Weekend!

Marching Band Cover Pages

I am THRILLED to say that as of yesterday I am completely caught up on my son's final band album!  There will be a few more events happening before the end of the school year, but I have plans laid out for those pages too.  

This is a pretty significant project because I have made 8 very full 12x12 band albums over the last 7 years ~ 4 each for Megan & Matt with a year overlap. I wanted the start of each yearly album to look the same, so I made similar pages using the formal band photos. After that I documented the full marching band season from band camp all the way to State Finals using a variety of supplies, kits & digital products. The marching band section of the album is a significant portion of each year, but I continued each book with the rest of the band events through the end of the school year.

I still have to photograph all of Matt's senior year pages; however, I thought I'd share the cover pages for each of his albums.  My oh my has he grown up...

A nice timeline page which shows how much he has changed in four years.

Have a Wonderful Weekend!

Dear Matt...

Hi Friends!  I just finished a page directly from my heart. This past marching band season was a special time for me watching my son grow and mature. He is an outstanding young man and I couldn't be more proud of him. So, I decided to write him a letter about some of the things I observed this season and included one of my favorite things... watching him conduct Part 3. 

For this page, I used lots of bits and pieces from various Felicity Jane kits ~ Caroline, Mila, Summer and Alexis. I recently split up my kits, which is why I don't stick to just one kit per page. I love how all the kits coordinate so well together.

Ali Edwards Story Kits ~ Junior Year Band

 Hello Friends!  Over the last 4 months, I've been working hard to finish up my son's band albums for Junior and Senior year. I've also been very intentional about using products I have... especially my Ali Edwards Story Kits. In addition to the Story Kits, I have lots of Ali's digital cards, so I printed lots of those as well.  Here are a few of the pages I made with these kits to finish up his junior year.

This page features the Time Story Kit along with my favorite little black sticker letters.

 This page features the Details Story Kit and the title card is from the This & That digital kit.

This page features cards I printed form the Digital package called Great Story with chipboard embellishments from the Best and Lost & Found Story Kits.

And the cards from this last page features cards & chipboard embellishments from the Best & Lens Story Kits.

 Thanks for stopping by today!

AE Story Kits ~ Today's Details!

Happy Friday Crafty Friends!  Since I've been so hit and miss with posting lately, I thought I'd load up this blog post with several pages from my son's junior year 2016 marching band season.  I'm so happy that I was able to finish up all of his junior year & have now started on his senior year.

For my first page, I used several items from the Ali Edwards Details Story Kit & Story Stamp, as well as one of the cards from All the Love kit & embellishments from the Time Story kit. 

This next page features Ali Edwards digital journaling cards from the Best, Drive & the Go Story Kits.  I changed the colors in Photoshop Elements to match my page.  I also used embellishments I had left from the Week in the Life & December Daily projects.

The next double page spread features items from the Surprise Story Kit along with some embellishments from the Bond & Give kits.

And my last page for today features products from the Fun Story kit & some really old sticker letters I had in my stash.

Enjoy Your Day!

Ali Edwards Story Kit ~ Celebrate Together

Hello Friends!  I've been working like crazy to get my son's junior year band album done so I can get started on senior year.  Well ... GUESS WHAT?  Over the weekend I finished his last few pages.  I'm super excited!!  I do a full album (like 100 layouts) for each school year.  I stated this madness when my daughter was a freshman and I'm determined to finish before my son graduates ~ that is a total of 8 super full albums!  

Today it was actually sunny outside, so I took some pictures using natural light. To be honest, I'm not really sure it is any better then the light box I have set up in my basement.  These pocket pages are incredibly time consuming to photograph, so I'm not even going to try taking photos in the light box to see if they are better.

So anyway.... I wanted to share a few pages I made using the Ali Edwards Story Kit called For the Love.  It is a fun kit with lots of great journaling cards and embellishments.   I also added some coordinating supplies from older Story Kits here and there.

I love having the digital versions of the Story Kits because I can add my journaling in Photoshop Elements and then print them out like I did on the top left card on the page below.

Have A Wonderful Day!

Felicity Jane Kits ~ Remember Today

Hello There!  The other day I was looking for some photos from the end of the marching band season. I knew that a friend of mine had posted some, so I went searching. I found this gem of my son right after his last evening practice was over.  It is a bittersweet photo that made me tear up when I saw it.  His face showed so many emotions of accomplishment and satisfaction, and yet a bit of sadness too because his Concord Marching Band days were coming to a close.  Years down the road, I hope when he looks back on his years in band, he has this same look on his face.

For my layout, I selected products from several different Felicity Jane Kits ~ Reagan, Mila, and Willow that I can recall. I love how all of the products fit so beautifully together from kit to kit.

Enjoy Your Day!

Ali Edwards Story Kits ~ Marching Band Events

Welcome to a new week!  I didn't get a chance to get a blog post done yesterday, so I'll share 2 layouts with you today. I decided for both of these double layouts, that I wanted to go a bit minimal on the embellishments.  I had lots of photos from both Regionals and Semi-State, and wanted to include as many of them as I could.

For this first layout, I used journaling cards from the Ali Edwards Details Story Kit & digital stamps from the Drive Story Stamp. For the "Heart of the Matter" card, I changed the color of the letters to red, to coordinate with all the red in the photos and the theme of the show {Defence.les/Heart}.  On the Story Details card, I added journaling under the photo and added a pull tab.

For my Semi-State page, I again had tons of photos and wanted to include so many.  I used the grey tear-apart phrases from the 2017 Week in the Life kit with stars from the Best Story Kit.  I also used a journaling card from the digital version of the Best Story Kit.  Using Photoshop Elements, I changed the color of the star on the card to purple to match the title card & the background color to white from cream.

Thanks for Stopping By Today!

Ali Edwards Fun Story Kit ~ Grand Opening

As you can tell from my blog posts this week, I've been working on my son's band book quite a bit. I decided to pull out all of my Ali Edwards Story Kits and get them used up. I am making a huge dent in them and having a blast!

For this page, I used the Fun & Best Story Kits. In addition to the physical kits, I also have the digital version. Often times, I'll use the digital jounaling cards to add text, but for this page, I changed the colors on some of the cards in Photoshop Elements. I changed some of the colors of the stars to red so it would match my page and I changed the Awesome card to red as well. 

Have A Great Weekend!

Ali Edwards Story Kit Pages ~ Fun, Lens, and Time

Hello My Friends! 

Yup ~ I have 3 more marching band pages today all featuring different Story Kits from Ali Edwards. My first page uses the Fun Story Kit & features pictures from Cedar Point.

For the Formal Picture page, I used the Lens Story Kit.

And for this band practice page, I used the Time Story Kit.

Thanks for Stopping By Today!

Ali Edwards Best Story Kit ~ Parent Preview

Today I am continuing on with my son's junior year marching band album and sharing a page using the Ali Edwards Story Kit called Best. All of the cards and some embellishments are from the Best kit.  Then I looked in my stash and found some other great embellishments from the Lost & Found and Bond story kits.  I also added several Taylored Expressions die, cork embellishments from Studio Calico & sticker letters Simple Stories on this page. I have so many wonderful products in my stash & I'm making it a goal to use them. 

I still prefer adding typed journaling to my pages, so I typed this on my computer and then added it to the journal card.  Sometimes I cut it out and add it & other times I type the journaling directly to the digital version of the card & print it out on my photo printer.  NOTE: When you subscribe to both the Ali Edwards Story Kit & the Story Stamp, you get the digital version free.  This is called Hybrid Scrapbooking & I love it.

Hope you have an AMAZING day!

Marching Band Pages ~ Junior Year Begins!

Happy Monday Friends!

I posted a few of the beginning pages for my son's junior year marching band album last week & now I'm excited to share a few more. I like to prepare & present these pages in chronological order because it tells the whole story and progression of the season. So first up is Drum Major camp... we were so blessed that first our daughter and then our son were named as drum majors for our amazing band. On this first very simple page, I used the teal and black cardstock and chipboard letters to match the photos.  My goal for this page was just to get the story documented.

I went on a scrapbooking retreat in November and my goal was to use supplies from my building stack of unused Ali Edwards Story kits. I love using them, but had at least 8 or 10 kits still in packages because of a very busy spring through fall.  I thought it would be a great challenge to try and work with primarily these Story Kits, Story Stamps and maybe few added alphabets or embellishments.  I used the Fun Story Kit/Story Stamp on the following pages & love how they turned out.   

Again, I used the Fun Story Kit on this page and added the title using a Thickers chipboard alphabet for the title.

I'll be back with more pages tomorrow!

Enjoy your day!

Marching Band ~ Junior Year

Hi There Friends!  I've been working hard on my son's marching band book over the last few months and have a good portion of his junior year done ~ which is a good thing since he is a senior now and finished his final marching season in November!  We finally had a sunny day so I was able to get some photos & wanted to share the opening pages for the junior album.  For each of the 7 albums I've made so far for my son & daughter, I have started out with similar layouts.  I like the consistency of having each one starting this way & it's a great launching point for my creativity. 

The large group photo below is 11x17, so it doesn't fit on one page and I added the marching band show title on this page.  It was super scary and hurt my heart a little bit to cut that big picture the first time I did this, but I love the results.

Note: I found some 12x12 page protectors that are flush bound (the two are connected) so you don't see the binder rings.  Sadly, these page protectors from We R Memory Keepers have been discontinued.

For the Concord pattern paper on the page above and below, it was special ordered by our local scrapbook store.  We only really have one or two stores left locally which is so sad ~ I love shopping in stores when I can actually see, touch and feel products. 

I have a bunch of pages finished for this album that I will share very soon!  I can't wait to show you how I've used my Ali Edwards Story Kits & Story Stamps in these albums!

Project 52 ~ Week #47

Hello Friends! I have to say, I was very tempted to do several pages for last week because Week #47 was super jam packed with activities!  The guys started out the week in Indianapolis and we all ended the Thanksgiving week in Philadelphia and New York City.  Whew... lots of miles for sure!

I used the Wander Edition Kit from the Project Life App for this page & thought it fit the busy week rather well.  I'm sure I'll be using this kit to document more pages for this trip in the upcoming months.

Thanks for stopping by today!

AE & Felicity Jane Page: Surprise!

I'm not sure if you're more surprised by the fact that I'm posting twice in the same week, or that I actually had time to make a 12x12 physical scrapbook layout!  LOL!!! It think this is the first 12x12 layout I've made since April or May and it felt great to get into my craft room again!

Over the last few weeks, since marching band finished up, I've been working on finishing my son's sophomore year Band Album. This is the final page of the school year when he was named Drum Major for his junior year. It was such an exciting night & Matt's reaction was awesome!

I used the Felicity Jane Heidi & Caroline Kits for the pattern papers and embellishments.  I love how their kits work so well together month after month.  The big acrylic "Surprise" word is from the Ali Edwards Surprise Story Kit. 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Project 52 ~ Week #44

I know you aren't going to be surprised by another Marching Band page; however, this week I have a REALLY good excuse.  Last Saturday was State Finals & the Concord Marching Minutemen made it!  Our band has been in Class B for the last 30+ years and have made it to State Finals all but one year.  This year, it was our first year in Class A because our school population went up and many in the marching band community didn't think we would make it to finals!  Well we did & we placed 5th!!!  It was a very exciting week of activities and then Finals on Saturday!  

For my page, I used cards & overlays from the Confetti Edition Kits and I also added a few Just Add Color Overlays to the photos.

Thanks for stopping by!

Project 52 ~ Week 43

Hello Friends!!!  Thanks for hanging in there with me only posting Project Life App pages during this busy season of my life.  I promise I'll have some physical pages posted soon!

I thought I'd add a touch of fall this week on my pages so I used the Seasonal Snapshot 2015 Kit from the Project Life App with a few of Matt's senior pictures.  

Have a Wonderful Day!

Project 52 ~ Week #42

How is it possible that I am sharing Week #42 of this year already?  This year is flying by and I'm so thankful to have the Project Life App to do this project so that I can document the day-to-day.   I used the Azure kit from the App for my page this week. 

Have a Wonderful Day!

Project 52 ~ Week #40

Another great week and another week of band, band, and more band!  This has been our life for the past 7 years and it's the last season with Concord Marching Band.  Next fall will look very different, that's for sure! 

For this page, I used 2 cards from the Project 52 ~ Fresh Edition.  The cards I used to highlight our band activities are super simple, but I felt like they summed up the week very well. 

Have a great day!

Project 52 ~ Week #38

Today I'm sharing my Project 52 page for Week #38.  It was a hot and steamy week with lots of band activity and not one but TWO college acceptance letters for my son ~ Western Michigan University & Indiana Wesleyan University.  So that was pretty exciting!

The kit I used for this page is the Bridgeport Childhood Mini Kit in the Project Life App.

Have a Wonderful Day!