September is upon us! We are looking forward to apples, changing leaves, blue skies, and schedules. And increased scrapbooking!!!! Hooray!
This month we are introducing a new feature. Each month we will add a monthly theme. It will coordinate with our monthly gallery theme and be a focus for the weekly posts throughout the month. This month our theme is Learning. Which is the perfect tie in for our monthly gallery theme:
We hope that it makes for a fun month to have a theme as well as our gallery. Let's go look at the lovely layouts, shall we? And as a reminder, if you want to read the journaling and see the layouts in a larger format, please click on over to the gallery album, Back To School II.
Goodbye Summer | Aliza Deutsch
12 x 12 | materials cardstock (Bazzill Basics Paper) + patterned paper (Fancy Pants Design) + tag (Evalicious, Jillibean Soup, Fancy Pants Design) + stickers (Evalicious) + fonts (Linenstroke)
A Note from Aliza
This layout is less about the start of school and more about the end of summer, because my kids don’t start until after Labor Day. Turns out I had a lot to say on the matter.
September Fun Fact
I am having fun working on making my planner for this coming school year.
Grade School Years | Sue Althouse
12 x 12 | materials cardstock (Bazzill) + patterned paper (Scenic Route) + thickers (American Crafts) + pen (Micron)
A Note from Sue
Because we are past the going-back-to-school phase of life, this layout documents my own photos from elementary school.
September Fun Fact
My favorite time of year is finally here. It's college football season!
I Remember | Lisa Borbély
8.5 x 11 | materials patterned paper (Crate Paper) + stitch template (Amy Tangerine for We R memory keepers) + wood veneer (Cocoa Daisy) + journaling tag (Becky Higgins)
A Note from Lisa
I love that we drove through the little town where my very first school is this summer. I haven´t been there for like 10 years!
Kindergarten | Jennifer Larson
12 x 24 | materials cardstock (Stampin’ Up!) + patterned paper (October Afternoon) + stickers (October Afternoon) + journaling card (7gypsies) + pen (Copic) + font (Times New Roman)
A Note from Jennifer
I finally got started on my sons’ school scrapbooks. This is the 4-page layout for my younger son’s Kindergarten years. I took inspiration for the scrapbook idea and page design from Cathy Zielske in the book Clean and Simple 2 and Stacy Julian's The Big Picture. One page for thee school photo and details (grade/teacher/school), one page for photos from the year plus journaling, one page for class picture, and one pocket page for various representative school and life papers from the year. I used the same basic layout and line of products for each grade. I have finished 2 grades completely and just have to select and print photos for the other 3 years. By the way, my son helped me pick out the products, photos, and papers for the pocket page—perhaps my favorite part of finally starting this project was getting my son to help me!
September Fun Fact
My younger son is now in 5th grade, so these papers and photos have been sitting around for 5+ years. Since my One Little Word this year was DO, I used that word to motivate me to finally start the albums. So if you have wanted to do a school album but are worried it is too late to start, trust me: it can be done!
First Day Back To School | Jennifer Hignite
12 x 12 | materials digital kit (Study Hall by Jen Allyson) + frames (Stacket Photo Clusters No.3 bu Katie Pertiet
A Note from Jennifer
This layout I wanted to keep the focus on the photos. A simple design and fun frames lead the eye straight to the photos!
September Fun Fact
This is the first year all 3 of my boys will be school full time! I’m not sure what I will do without one of them here with me. Scrapbooking perhaps!?
School Days | Lisa Borbély
8.5 x 11 | materials patterned paper (Studio Calico, Cocoa Daisy, Teresa Collins) + stickers (Simple stories) + embellishment (Shanna Noel) + stamp (Studio Calico)
A Note from Lisa
This layout is a timeline with a photo of my daughters first day of first grade and her first day of ninth grade. I just wanted to have the two photos on the same layout as a comparison, so I just added scraps of paper and labels between them. Sometimes it is fun to make a layout without writing an important story, but just to play with paper!
September Fun Fact
I love summer, but feel ready to light some candles and take chilly walks.
Walking Tall | Amy Sorensen
12 x 12 | materials patterned paper, tall alpha stickers (Pebbles) + script alpha stickers (American Crafts) + ruler stamp (Catslife Press) + polka dot stickers (Heidi Swapp) + gold paint + font (Helvetica)
A Note from Amy
When I bought these tall gold alpha stickers, the lady at the scrapbook store said "I love these but I don't know how anyone will ever use them." Now I'm sort of on a mission to use them up! I'm consistently surprised at how neutral gold is...good for both girl and boy layouts.
September Fun Fact
I've been looking forward to Starbucks getting pumpkin back since January. It's finally time!
First Day | Valerie O'Neall
12 x 12 | materials patterned paper (My Mind's Eye) + chipboard (My Mind's Eye) + die cuts (My Mind's Eye) + alpha stamps (EK Success) + enamel dot (My Mind's Eye) + wood veneer (Studio Calico) + pen (Copic) + other (office supply date stamp)
A Note from Valerie
I love the new Jubilee line from My Mind's Eye. I knew when I spotted the blue striped paper it was perfect for my son's back to school photos. Then it's really just a basic 4 square grid layout with one of the "squares" filled with embellishments instead of a photo.
September Fun Fact
I love that my son is going to the same elementary school that my husband and I went to. Go Vikings!
Year 1 | Cristina C. Scrap
12 x 12 | materials Grids 3 Template (Amy Martin at The Lilypad) + Daily Brads no. 1 and Typeset Alphas no. 3 (Sahlin Studio at The Lilypad) + The Dirty Dame font (Heather Joyce and Valorie Wibbens at The Lilypad)
A Note from Cristina
As I am getting ready to start the second and last year of my degree, it was fun to sit back and look at the pictures I have collected over the past year. I decided to take a picture of me for each week of class, and I love looking back and thinking about all that I have accomplished.
There were a lot of colors in these pictures, so I decided to convert most of them to black and white and only keep a few favorites in color.
September Fun Fact
Back to school it is. I got used to the more relaxed schedule of summer, but I am looking forward to fall weather and colors.
Currently Loving | Amy Kingsford
8.5 x 11 | materials cardstock (Currently by Karla Dudley) + patterned paper (Currently by Karla Dudley) + buttons (Currently by Karla Dudley) + brads (Currently by Karla Dudley) + word art (Currently by Karla Dudley) + stickers (Currently by Karla Dudley) + chipboard (Currently by Karla Dudley) + leaf (Splendid by Creashens) template (Amy Martin) + font (Courier New)
A Note from Amy
This layout is about all of the things that my oldest son is really interested in right now. I find Back to School is a great time to record these types of things as so many of their interests pop up in the clothes and supplies that we buy before school starts.
September Fun Fact
I made a goal at the beginning of this year to read 14 books in 2014. I got off to a good start but my progress stalled a little over the summer. I'm hoping now that my oldest is going to a full day of school, I'll be able to find a little bit more time for reading--I guess we'll see?!
4th | Celeste Smith
12 x 12 | materials kit (September Storyteller by Just Jaimee) + font (The Modern by Heather Joyce)
A Note from Celeste
This layout was more difficult to scrap than if I scrapped it closer to the beginning of school. My son had a phenomenal year and I found it difficult not to start gushing about that! I used very little school themed elements and papers here. I challenged myself to make it look school themed without the
apples and pencils.
September Fun Fact
It’s my 18th wedding anniversary this month. For twenty, my husband has agreed to an Italian getaway. I cannot wait!
Hello Senior Year | Diane Payne
12 x 12 | materials patterned paper (Studio Calico) + buttons (Studio Calico, A Flair for Buttons) + labels (Freckled Fawn) + stickers (Freckled Fawn, BasicGrey) + pen (American Crafts)
A Note from Diane
This layout is the last first day of high school layout for my kids…how time has flown by.
September Fun Fact
I have a goal to do some major closet cleaning and purging this month… wish me luck!
First Day of 5th Grade | Jennifer Hignite
12 x 12 | materials Scholastic Full Collection by Mommyish
A Note from Jennifer
This layout was fun to play with and pull together. I enlarged the clock brush to make it the background of the layout. I added another brush underneath the 5 to highlight the grade number he was starting on that first day!
September Fun Fact
I am so ready for all the things that come along with back to school time! Routine, schedules, homework, soccer games, cooler temperatures & lots of fun!!
Visit the Old Teacher at Meet the Teacher | Marnie Flores
12 x 12 | materials cards (Project Life cards by Liz Tamahama) + font (KG Penmanship)
A Note from Marnie
I found these awesome little cards for free! I was so excited to find school things that looked a little more grownup.
September Fun Fact
We had a really long summer break this year and are all happy that school is back in session!
That's it! Another amazing gallery brought to you by our fabulous team. Please leave some love and we look forward to a month of learning!
