Scrapbook layouts: Harmony’s school album
The only traditional scrapbooks that I have to work on these days besides our Christmas album are the kids’ School and Birthday album. The school one is fairly challenging to me because I started each one out using Creative Memories’ “set” of school pages. So each school year has a pre-created page with really old-school (no pun intended) decorations, and then every last page in their year (flipside of the first page) has some decorations in the bottom corner. I’ve tried to incorporate these existing elements while still being able to create new-style layouts and I’m not always pleased with the results.
These layouts are the last pages in Harmony’s “Grade Five” section of her school album.
So I ended up being really pleased with how the soccer one turned out, but not so much with the Track & Field Layout. I think I’m starting to clue in to the fact that having a good patterned paper as a base really helps me along. And sticking with a few select colours in my palette instead of being all over the place. Funny how after well over a decade of scrapbooking, I’m still refining my techniques!
I’m glad that I created the books to only go until the end of middle school years… so grade 8. Harmony is already in the habit of avoiding pictures and not smiling for them so my ability to capture good photos is becoming more and more limited! I wish you could somehow get the message across to kids how precious these memories will become once many years (and then decades!) have gone by and they don’t remember them anymore or need visceral clues as a trigger of those memories!
There are a couple other new-ish layouts in there that I can’t remember whether or not I’ve shared here. But in any case, you can access the whole album here: Harmony’s School Album. Just please ignore any spam comments you may see! I just noticed the first ones now and have no idea how many there might be. Would hate to turn the comments off but that may be what I need to do. 
One of the downsides of having a blog, I guess!
Thanks for looking! 
Stay tuned for more, because I’m working on both kids’ albums these days and have finished some of Avery’s first layouts in his Senior Kindergarten section!
June 04 2010 12:37 pm | EZ-blog Oven and scrappy / stampy
June 7th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
These are really great! Way to personalize the pre-made layouts. I always have a challenge with too. These came our really well!
June 9th, 2010 at 10:25 am
@Stacy ~ thx very much! yes it’s a challenge for sure!