Skinny pic, room shot and an actual Polaroid!

Hey Scrap Fans! So my hubby and daughter bought me the Art + Science of Scrapbooking class at Big Picture Classes for Mother's Day. One of the assignments led to me organizing some of my hard copy photos and I pulled together all the photos I had from my school years. I've been slowly working on an album all about me, so scrapping some of my high school photos was a natural progression.

I identified this photo as one I wanted to scrap when I was visiting Andy in Ohio and I only brought a few Studio Calico kits. I decided I didn't have enough with me to do what I really wanted so I held on to it until I got home. I'm not sure why I wanted to used this paper, maybe because I think that sweater I was wearing in the pic may have had a gold stripe on the sleeve. In any case, it just seemed right. 

I knew I wanted to say a lot in the journaling, so I opted to type it on a 4x6 card from Becky Higgins' Project Life Kraft edition, and I picked the matching 3x4 card to pull in the brown and cream. I grounded it all with a stip of craft and gold washi tape from Maggie Holmes and added some gold accents here and there. I stamped some kraft card stock with Ali Edwards' stamps and sprinkled some gold mist around both areas of embellishment. I used gold Thickers from American Crafts and black on kraft letter stickers from October Afternoon for my title "Blasts from the Past", which introduces the three reasons I wanted to scrap that photo. 

I really liked the look of the gold with the kraft, so I decided to trim a half an inch all around from my pattern paper and mount it on some Kraft card stock from Bazzill. Viola! Another 12x12 page for my race to 100! 

Thanks for stopping by, and Happy Scrappin'!!