Some Oldies but Favorites (Marshall)

Well, I'm going to start with some older scrapbook pages I've done that I still love looking at even today. I know, it sounds silly-we should love all our creations, right? I do love my work but I still have a few that I look at and feel super proud and think to myself "Wow I really rocked this one!" ;)
The ones in this post are all of my oldest son.

This page was one of my first attempts at paper weaving a few years ago (a technique I love to use even now). This page was done way back when I still cut letters by hand from stencils! (gasp! lol)

 This is a page I did when I was on the DT for Pages Of The Heart back in 2006. Wow it doesn't seem like it was that long ago!
One of the things I like about this page is how the paint swatch pops out the blue patterned paper and the blue on his shirt. The tag with the journaling is actually a wooden tag I covered with the paint swatch.

 This page is from when I really started to get into the distressing side of things more often. I guess that's my "style" now. This one was done back in 2008-ish. I also love to use flowers on boy pages. They may not appreciate it when they grow up, but oh well ;)

This one was my first ever attempt at paper pleating-and I started off with a bang! All four edges of this 12x12 page has pleats. This was also my first attempt at printing on vellum that wasn't confined to text box. And this paper piecing is one of my favorites as well.

 This one was actually a challenge from Paws On Scrapbooking a few years ago. We had to dig into our scraps and choose 3-4 pieces without looking! Talk about out of my comfort zone! lol But I have to say, I really really like how it turned out. It also allowed me to scrap some pics I wasn't sure what to do with (which is a secret of mine for dealing with challenges-use pictures you haven't figured out what to do with, that way there's no re-printing necessary if it doesn't turn out, and a bonus if it does!)

 This one I got the idea from a magazine a while ago (Well almost 6 years since Marshall's almost 11 now). I've actually started doing this for all 3 boys with a picture I take of them around their birthday. It's a great way to showcase what they were like at each age without writing a novel or making a whole album lol.

This is another one I did with supplies from being on the DT for Pages of The Heart. The "6" in 16 Months is actually a thin metal