Saturday, September 5, 2009

Welcome to the my Stamp BOX alphabet themed blog hop

Welcome to the ABC blog hop with my Stamp BOX today! You should have arrived from Marci's blog
If you have just happened upon my blog today, you may want to head to the start of the blog hop today, the my Stamp BOX blog.
Here is the ABC blog hop schedule in case you missed anyone:
my Stamp BOX www.mystampbox.com/blog
Cathy www.cathysartblog.blogspot.com
Tracey www.tailoredpapges.blogspot.com
Gudrun www.papirbloggen.blogspot.com
Jolene www.jolenejohnston.blogspot.com
Lara www.scrappingadventures.com
Leica www.10-4livingoutloud.typepad.com
Marci www.marciknecht.blogspot.com
Trace www.createbytrace.blogspot.com
Ally www.yourmemoriescanada.blogspot.com
**For participating in the blog hop by leaving a comment on each and every participating my Stamp BOX designer's blog, you have a chance to win one of two brand new stamp sets being released this month! So leave a comment on all of the blog posts, and then come back to the my Stamp BOX blog and tell us what your favourite project was along the way for a chance to win.
Have fun!!!!! For my layout titled "no longer a family of three" I wanted to add some brief journaling about what it feels like to see pictures of the 3 of us together, knowing that it wont happen again...I find scrapbooking to be very theuraputic, so I tend to also scrap a lot of very personal and tough subjects.
I used 3 alpha stamp sets:
Letterboxes
Splash me a little!
lots of dots

I love the look of mixing up my alpha sets, because it's a more affordable and versatile alternative to using letter stickers on every layout.


Layout titled "road trip"
I mixed the same 3 alpha stamp sets again, but this time I stamped the word 'trip' onto white paper, trimmed each letter out, and adhered onto the patterned paper.

34 comments:

Catherine said...

Just look at that tree! Love it.

arlsmom aka Lynda said...

Love your layouts Trace!!!

marcibun said...

those are AWESOME! Great work Trace :)

Deanne Clarke said...

Hi Trace!!! Love your work!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

Cori-Lyn said...

I don't know your story but find you very brave to scrap the hard stuff (((hugs)))
I love the idea of mixing the alphabets - definitely need to do this more often!

Michelle said...

great layouts. I like the different fonts for the title

Tina McDonald said...

Sweet job! Great job mixing the stamps!

Tracey Taylor said...

FAB pages!!

Jolene said...

You do such a great job with mixing fonts!

Sheryl said...

Love the mixing up of Fonts.

Shirley said...

Love both the pages, especially the Family of 3!

*Alison* said...

I LOVE that cute tree and how you circled the numbers for the year.. great idea.. HUGS stretchnbubbles.blogspot.com

Kim Sonksen said...

I ADORE how you mixed the alpha's. STUNNING work

Crafty Girl Studio said...

Great use of the stamps! Love the background paper also.

Unknown said...

oops commented on the wrong day! nice layouts

Juliet A said...

These are some cool, edgy layouts - you have an incredible style! Great use of the alphas!

Jenni said...

Hugs so sorry all this happened to you. No longer three layout is very powerful.

Unknown said...

I love the "family of 3 layout" and that photo was very touching. Great work!

Calia Yang said...

trace - very cute layout! awesome tree!!

Kate said...

I looove the look of the mixed alphas! I don't do this enough. GREAT pages!

Victoria said...

Great work! Really beautiful layouts!

jill said...

Love your layouts!!!! Glad to play along.
- jill

mica said...

Both pages are so cool! Love the idea of those pics :)

paru's_circle said...

awesome LO pages!

Tams said...

you layouts are wonderful, soo creative, I really enjoyed them.

Anne Marie said...

Love your LO's! I really like the pic of the shadows!

TanyaW said...

excellent l/o's...scrapbooking is very theraputic, I need to do more of that

Unknown said...

Sharon says love your layouts.

gudrun said...

Love how you mixed different alphas in your title. So cool!
And your LO "no longer three" is so powerful.

Jacquelin said...

LOVE these layouts!

Bamm-ela said...

You are a talented woman! Very sophisticated layouts. Thanks for sharing.

June said...

cool mixing of fonts.

Kimberly Kett said...

Both LO's are just stunning!

Cathy said...

Love how you mix alphas Trace! Thanks so much!!