Five from Luke's Book

Following the lead of some of my friends who had kids before me, I make a family album and an album for Luke. I do more pages in my family album than I do in Luke's book, but some of my favorites are in his album.


I steal a lot of ideas from scrapbook magazines and other scrapbookers. This one is maybe my favorite page I've EVER done, and I adapted it from a layout I found in a magazine. Each little strip of brown paper has a different sentence about Luke. I write to him in 2nd person in his album, as if the whole thing is a letter to him.

Here's another layout I adapted. I love drawing my own letters, but I get pretty lazy a lot of the time and end up using stickers. I have such a large reserve of stickers left over from my CM Consultant days, that I need to use them up. I love these bubble letters, though, and the way the mis-matched paper with circles on it seems to end up going together.

My photography of the pages is not great, so you can't really tell that the background of this page is dark denim paper. I love the green bandanna paper and how it looks with the bluebonnets.

This layout includes several of Luke's favorite friends from Texas. Again, stolen from another layout idea I saw on cre8joy.typepad.com.


I love simple layouts that turn out well. This layout is very dear to me. The little uniform Luke has on belongs to my Daddy. He wore it as the mascot for the Greenville HS football team when he was little. Luke is holding a picture of me in the uniform, holding a picture of Daddy in it. I let the uniform's stripes inspire the stripes on the page. The little scuffed black cleats inspired me to use black paper to back the photos, tear the edges, and use white ink to age the edges.