Sisterscrap

I Do!

So with Francine's move into a new apartment and her internet being hooked up a yet I will be posting 3 or 4 layouts this month and then Francine will add her versions in November.

I have always wanted to scrap these photos of my parents on their wedding day.  I love how young and happy they look.  The song I used ("Don's Want to Miss a Thing") is by Aerosmith and is from the movie Armageddon it also happens to be the song that Sheldon and I danced to at our wedding and I just love the words.  I of course have not touched my wedding photos as yet but this has inspired me to want to do them.  How about you?  If you are married have you scrapped your wedding photos?

Odds and Ends

Hello all!!

Check out this great tutorial from Francine on the It Takes All Kinds blog.  It shows a great way to get multiple photos on your layout.  Also check out the rest of the ITAK blog and enter the give-a-way for a great prize.

On another note...my layout is a few days late (sorry) but I will be posting it in a day or two so check back and take a look.

Have a great day!

Back to School Layout Ideas

Seeing that we are still in the month of September and our layouts featured school photos here is a list of back to school layout ideas:

• First day of school
• Waiting/Boarding/Riding the bus
• Your child's hopes and dreams for the school 
• What back to school means for you
• New school supplies/shopping for school supplies
• Back to school style
• Meeting new friends and reuniting with old friends
• Classroom/teacher
• Homework

If you have other back to school layout ideas we would love to hear them.  Leave us a comment with your idea or link us up to your back to school layouts.

Also don't forget to check back later in the week for a new layout from me.

And the Welcome Back Giveaway goes too...

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Timestamp: 2009-09-12 16:08:49 UTC

Congratulations goes to Erika Knight who said: 

I'm just getting started with scrapbooking, using my wedding as a good excuse to get started. My sister-in-law loves to scrapbook too and we are both working on our wedding albums right now. I also have several close friends who like to scrapbook, I'm planning on attending a retreat just for scrapbookers in a couple of weeks - I'm so excited!

Please email your mailing address to me at to me at vernellc at gmail dot com and I'll mail your prize! Thank you!

Thanks to all who posted a comment over the last 2 weeks and don't worry if you did not win this time we will have other opportunities to win goodies as we continue on this journey.

School Bell Ring

Here is my take on those photos of us in our uniforms. (This layout is also part of the Write.Click.Scrapbook September gallery)

 

The title "Ting a ling a ling, school bell ring" is taken from a West Indian nursery rhyme. We actually had that kind of bell at our schools! I paper pieced the bell accent by using clip art as a template.

I have a pretty clear memory of this day, I remember my shoe laces were very dirty because they had gotten untied and had been dragging on the ground all day. Most of all I remember just being generally excited to start secondary school!

Don't forget you have until tonight to enter our giveaway! Vernell will pull the winner and post the name on Saturday morning!

School Days

We thought it was fitting to use these photos of us in our school uniforms for our first September layouts.  These were taken in Grenada in 1979.  Francine (on the left) was 11 and in her first year at secondary school and I was 8 still in primary school.

 

Francine will be adding her version of these photos by the end of next week so don't forget to check back to see her take.

Also remember to leave a comment on any post leading up to Sept 11 and you will be entered in our welcome back give-a-way. 

Welcome Back Give-a-way

We are extending the welcome back give-a-way till next Friday (9/11).  Any comments from August 30 through September 11 will be eligible to win the scrap goodies shown below, plus I am sure I will throw in some more things during the week.

 

Also check back later this evening for the first layout for September.

Cheers!!

Welcome back to Sister Scrap!

We're sisters! We both scrap! We live on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean!

To refresh your minds, we had this idea that since we both have a lot of the same photos from our childhood growing up in Barbados and Grenada, as well as lots of family, holiday and vacation pictures why not scrap them "together" online? And so Sister Scrap was born.

We started off slowly last year and after a long break where we hashed out a better plan for our blog we are back.  The plan is to alternate weeks where we will each post our version of whatever photo or ‘theme” (we use theme here in the very looses of terms as neither of us are theme scrappers) we decide on.  Layouts will be posted by the Friday of that week but during the week we will be posting a few tips and techniques and other random stuff.  We will also have Funky Friday where one Friday a month the layout will also be based around a fun, funky technique.

So sit back, relax and join us as we document our family history, each in our unique style.

Welcome Back Give –a-way:

To start us of right post a comment below saying hi and also let us know if you have any siblings or other relatives or friends that you share your scrapping obsession with.  On Friday we will do a random drawing and one lucky person will win an assortment of scrap goodies.

Back on track

Here, finally, is my layout with these photos.

The journaling reads:
I love these photos of my mom from the 70s. She just looks so groovy in those shades and gypsy looking shirt. Rock on mom! Rock on!

I used paper from the fall specialty paper stack from K&Company designed by Johnny Yanock that Sheldon (dh) actually picked up for me all b himself (brownie points for him). I painted a section with paint from Ranger and Li'l Davis and the embellishments are a mix of flower sequins, American Crafts Thickers and Remarks Journaling Stickers, My Minds Eye overlay, and cut outs from KI Memories patterned paper.

Check back next week for our new layouts.

She's a Groovy Chick

My sister found these very cool photos of our Mum from sometime in the seventies. At least that's my guesstimate. It's always amazing to see a young version of your mum! What's even more interesting is how much I look like her. All my life people have said that I take after my Dad, but when I see pictures of Mummy in her 20s it's like I'm looking in a mirror.

I used a bunch of American Crafts here. Some older papers from my stash, my all time favourite Thickers alpha, journaling stickers, Slick Writer and some Thickers embellishments.  Sequins are Kaiser Crafts.

Vernell will post her version using these photos later this week!