Each week I share a scrapbook layout to give you a little sneak peek into what I’m scrapping, and inspire you to play with pretty pixels too.

Today I’m sharing a page from my family album.

This layout was inspired by the Scrap Happy Member Layout a Day challenge:

Show of the Day: The Music Man (1957)

The Music Man was entirely written by Broadway newcomer, Meredith Willson, who based the story on incidents from his childhood in Iowa. The play was old-fashioned in contrast to the snappy, modern West Side Story playing at the same time, but its intricate musical arrangements, fast pacing, and humor without corny sentiment made it an audience favorite that also garnered six Tony Awards.

Though I could write pages of journalling about my beloved city of Perth, Western Australia, I was drawn to the technique challenge today.   Initially, I was planning to have a page of speech bubbles with funny quotes from my toddler, but in the end, I decided to include all 4 of my children.   I started arranging the page, but rather than search for a photo of them together, I remembered the cool portrait pack I’d bought on the Rhonna Designs app I created the 4 portraits including their favourite colours and hairstyles.   I put them on a white background, saved it to dropbox then opened it in Photoshop Elements. I added the journalling, some embellishments, and a title.    If you are a paper scrapper, you could print portraits from the app for a similar look, use a paper doll die or do paper piecing.    This page took less than an hour and is a fun a photoless layout. I want to do more in this style or even use those portraits on other pages as embellishment I had so much fun with them!

How I did it

Today I'll talk you through the process in this video:

Credits

Alexa Zurcher Portrait pack in Rhonna Designs, kits from the Daily Digi and Traci Reed, Dunia, Shauna Clingerman.

Care to Share?

I’d love to see what you are working on this week. Do you have a layout or two to share? You can add a picture to the comments below.

Happy Scrapping!