Scrapbooking My Faith

I have been raised by a devout Catholic mom.  We go to church every Sunday.  I was educated in Catholic schools from kindergarten until college.  My faith has anchored me through life's most difficult situations.  My faith played a huge part in my decision-making.  My faith gave me hope and encouragement when I need them the most.  

Surprisingly enough, my faith is the one area in my life I least scrapbook about.  Just recently, I took an online class about scrapbooking my faith by Courtney Walsh.  I also bought her book, Scrapbooking Your Faith, in hope of getting faith into our scrapbooks more.  I want my children to read my thoughts, give them encouragement and strength to look up when they feel so down, to say a lot of a little prayers, to be mindful of the God that will provide for them and keep them safe.  I want them to have a personal relationship with God like I did.  

Here are the three layouts I did.  I have another layout that is much too personal that I'd rather keep to myself.  

Template - Scrap Orchard; Papers - Princesa Kit by Jessica Sprague; Journaling Strips - Crystal Wilkerson; Quote Fonts - Georgia and Zapfino; Journaling Font - Pea Marie Christine; Date Font - Myriad Pro

Template - Scrap Orchard; Papers - This Week by Carla Dudley; Title Font - Big Mummy; Journaling Font - my own handwriting

Template - Anna Aspnes; Paper - Nancy Rowe Janitz; Journaling Strips - Crystal Wilkerson; Journaling Font - my own handwriting; Title Font - Carpenter ICG and Big Mummy; Amen font - Zapfino; Date Font - Rockwell Extra Bold


The following photos + words are sized 4x6 that contain passages and quotes that moved me, encouraged me, strengthened me, touched me.  Some of these quotes were taken from Pinterest.  I am printing them as 4x6s, slipping them into an ongoing album which I'll keep adding into.  I have made use of the landscape photos I've taken over the years.  My hope for doing this is that my children will someday find strength, encouragement, hope, and faith in reading these passages and quotes.   

If you haven't done so already, I encourage you to scrapbook about your faith (if you're a scrapbooker like me), or write about it in a journal.  You never know who among your family will one day need a lift, and maybe that's the type of encouragement that will change their lives for the better.  

Another set of digital layouts:


Template - Jessica Sprague; Papers - Jessica Sprague, Katie Pertiet; Font - Justus, Charms BV

Template - Jessica Sprague; Papers - Jessica Sprague and Katie Pertiet; Fonts - Parma Petit, Georgia, Ornament Scrolls

Template - Jessica Sprague; Papers - Jessica Sprague and Katier Pertiet; Word Art - wordle.com; Font - VT Portable Remington (journalling) and You Are Loved (Title)

I've been out of touch again but with good reasons, LOL. I've been so busy scrapbooking - digitally and I'm loving it! I didn't think I'll say this but digital rocks! I've never been this productive - 9 layouts just in the past month (mid-September to mid-October) and an album with 20 layouts plus title and back pages in a month's time (mid-August to mid-September)!

Here are some layouts I'd like to share:



Template - Jessica Sprague; Papers - Jessica Sprague, Katie Pertiet, Trish Jones, KH Mize; Font - Santana Black, Georgia and Shelley Belley (http://www.kevinandamanda.com/fonts/)

Template and Papers - Jessica Sprague; Fonts - Georgia, Polywog (arrows), Inked God, VT Portable Remington, Century Gothic

Template and Papers - Jessica Sprague; Fonts - Broadway, Georgia, Pea Jay, Big Mummy, Pointers and Monkey Love

Template - Jessica Sprague; Papers - Jessica Sprague and Ali Edwards; Fonts - Yukon Gold, Impacted, Pea KT Doodles (www.kevinandamanda.com) and Times New Roman

Template - Jessica Sprague; Papers - Jessica Sprague's Princesa Kit; Fonts - Times New Roman, Laine, LL Rubber Grotesque

New Digital Layouts

Here are my latest layouts for the Beautiful Evidence Album. I only have three more layouts and the cover and back pages to go and I can upload these in Shutterfly to print my photo book!


Credits: Template - Jessica Sprague; Papers and Ribbon - Echoes of Asia Kit by Jessica Sprague; Font - VT Portable Remington

Credits: Template - Jessica Sprague; Papers and Ribbon - Jessica Sprague and Jan Crowley; Font - VT Portable Remington

Credits: Template - Jessica Sprague; Papers and Ribbon - Jan Crowley and Meredith Fenwick; Font - VT Portable Remington

Credits: Template - Jessica Sprague; Papers and Ribbon - Jessica Sprague and Katie Pertiet; Font - VT Portable Remington

Credits: Template - Jessica Sprague; Papers - Jan Crowley, Jessica Sprague; Michelle Coleman; Font - VT Portable Remington

Another Day... Another Layout

Here is my page 9 layout for the Beautiful Evidence album. Because I have to go to the office tomorrow, I won't be able to create another layout tonight (bummer!) but I'll catch up whenever I can.

Credits: Template - Jessica Sprague; Papers - Jan Crowley, Meredith Fenwick; Fonts - VT Portable Remington, Porcelain (for the initial "A")

US... Right Here, Right Now

This photo was taken today at Clearlake, on our way home from an overnight camping with friends. It is pretty tough to get us all in one photo together since I am behind the camera most of the time. When we do, however, there's always someone doing something else or looking somewhere else. This photo depicts our current life - a very busy one with two highly strung boys. Despite all the chaos, I wouldn't trade this life for anything else in this world.

Credits: Template - Jessica Sprague; Papers - Jessica Sprague, Jan Crowley, Meredith Fenwick, Katie Pertiet; Font - VT Portable Remington

A couple more...

Here are two more digital layouts from the Beautiful Evidence class:

Journaling: I never thought of myself as creative until I found my niche in photography and scrapbooking and a little baking on the side. I love taking photos, creating paper or digital layouts or momentos. I'm so glad creativity has found me! I sure hope it's here to stay!

Credits: Template - Jessica Sprague; Papers - Jan Crowley, Jessica Sprague, Katie Pertiet; Font - VT Portable Remington

Credits: Template - Jessica Sprague; Papers - Katie Pertiet, Jan Crowley, Jessica Sprague; Font - VT Portable Remington

New Layouts

The Beautiful Evidence class over at Spraground is currently in full swing. I created these two new layouts for Days 1 and 2.

Here is my title page. These are my treasures in life... the moments that make me smile... the moments that make me thank God each day for a blessed and fulfilled life... the beautiful evidence that I live a charmed life:

Credits: Papers - Jessica Sprague and Jan Crowley; Font - VT Portable Remington

Here is my "Me" page. Since I live with 3 boys, I have to infuse my life with pink from time to time to remind me that I'm truly a girlie girl at heart... :)

Credits: Papers - Jessica Sprague, Meredith Fenwick, Jan Crowley; Font - VT Portable Remington; Signature - my handwriting

Here is the niner I created last night for my last project for Frame Ups and Special Effects. The model is C, a friend's daughter. She is currently in college and doing some modeling on the side. She needed to update her portfolio and the mom asked me to take photos of her. She is truly a beautiful girl (inside and out) so I hope that she'll be successful with her modeling.

For more photos of her, please check this out.

Credits: Brushes by House of 3

The Frame Ups and Photo Editing free class wrapped up yesterday at the Spraground. It was a great class! I learned so much about adding interesting visual elements on my photos! Thanks so much Jessica Sprague and team - you guys totally rock!

Here are some of the photos I've enhanced using the techniques from that class (the photos below do not necessarily show the order in which they were presented):

1. Selective coloring technique - I converted the photo to black and white and recolored Kail's shirt with its original color:




2. Clipping Mask, Textures and Type


3. Clipping Mask, Textures, Darken Edges, Word Art, and Type


4. Clipping Mask and Textures

5. Hand tinted look on a photo and I colored Kail's lips with a shade of pink.

6. Photo converted to black and white and enhanced with brushes

7. Here is a photo of me and Calix with a round flourish frame and word art

8. Here is a 3-photo storyboard. Only the photo inside the frame remained in color while the image outside of the frame has that hand tinted look:
9. I burnt the edges of this photo so the background didn't show:

Credits - Brushes by House of 3; Frames House of 3; Textures by Fudge Graphics; Word Art by Jessica Sprague; Clipping Masks by Kimi Kreations and Jessica Sprague

I still owe another project - a niner. Hopefully I'll get to finish that tonight.

There's a ton of information presented in this class! What's great with this site is that the course materials are available forever so I can always go back in case I forget something.

Now that the class is over, I'm having withdrawal symptoms but I'm so happy Jessica is offering two more classes for August. They're no longer free but I'm entitled to a 20% discount. I'm so excited!