It's hard for Nic to comprehend Abby as a school girl and the day Abby put on a school uniform and headed off to school came all too soon. It's such a special moment for both parents and child, as is shown by the sheer delight on Abby's face. It's certainly a moment well worth documenting, as Nic did here with this layout created with Collage Press and Heidi Swapp papers.
Watching your child go to school for the first time brings up a myriad of emotions for a mother. They go from baby to toddler and all of a sudden they are at school. Steph delicately embellished these heartwarming recollections with SEI Poppy Paper and beautiful Heidi Swapp embellishments.
"How can I be old enough to have a girl starting high school when I can still remember my first day in high school so vividly?" In this substance layout Caz has focused on how quickly the years are flying by. From starting high school herself, to having her first child start kindergarten and now that same tiny little girl is off to high school .
Mel's son James is starting high school next year, so this challenge was a great opportunity for Mel to look back and reflect over the last few years (in photos) and also include a note for James on the page. A Junkitz Back To School Additionz notepad provided the perfect accetate quote to add to the layout and a piece of notepad style paper was also torn out of the notepad for Mel's journaling.
Suz created this layout for her son who moves into a new class this year without the safety blanket of any of last years friends in it, and his main go-to friend has even changed schools so he's not even there in the playground. He's a quiet spirit so all she can do is hope and encourage him and believe that some of his new classmates take the time to get to know him.
She has used an eclectic mix of products here including Scenic Route, Jenni Bowlin and BasicGrey as well as creating her own 'random alphabet' patterned paper with Tim Holtz's Alpha Mask. The cute gingham foam alphas are Heidi Swapp because surely nothing says 'school' better than a few checks!
Sometimes we have a lot of information to get down about several aspects of one particular subject and this is where mini-albums come into their own.
Nicole wanted to journal the ways things changed for her son Alexander when he moved from the Junior Primary School Campus to the Senior Primary School Campus. There were so many changes to journal that they simply wouldn't fit on a layout.
Starting with a pack of Paper Loft file folders, Nicole was able to create this little album with ease. She cut the folders in half to create pages and used the small file folders as little pockets to hold extra photos and some of her journalling.
She added blanket stitching and inking to emphasise the homely feel and to create warmth. She cut tags from papers in the Paper Loft Well Worn range and also used word titles from the Well Worn Stamped Words tag sheets.
One of her happiest discoveries while creating this project was that the "Spellbound" patterned paper in this range has words that can easily be cut out and used on projects or even cut into seperate letters and used to create new words like Nic did here on her cover.
