Hey Mom | Scrapbook Layout

"Hey Mom, I want to have a movie club."

The best thing happened here last weekend.

Simon had some friends over for a movie club.

For many of you that might not seem like anything to celebrate. But for him, it's huge. I can count on one hand the number of times he's invited other kids to come over (or that he's been invited to other kids houses or birthday parties).

Out of the blue (actually from an episode of Adventure Time) he announced late last week that he wanted to invite friends over and watch a couple movies. I said, "Sure, that sounds fun." and then figured we'd talk about it again later. He ended up going to school on Friday, writing his phone number of strips of paper and inviting kids from his program at school to come over at 2pm on Saturday.

Three boys ended up here on Saturday afternoon (after some good chats with parents) for a couple movies and popcorn and pizza and hanging out. It was awesome.

And he wants to do it again.

Here's what I created for this story:

A super simple 2-page, 8.5x11 layout with some really big Silhouette cuts to celebrate a really cool day.

For the first page I set up the title and cut it with the Silhouette (font is Sentinel).

I adhered it on top of some white woodgrain cardstock.

Last week in my supply replenishment video I showed a sticker sheet from Teresa Collins - Something Wonderful Stickers - "love this" and the other stickers I used on this layout are from that sheet.

For the second large cut I used some art from my Thank You Friends set.

You can easily trace these PNG files and use them in the Silhouette software. Check out a tutorial here.

After tracing I rotated the "I heart friends" word art and repeated it over and over and then cut it on kraft cardstock.

I adhered that onto a kraft cardstock background. Love the look of the kraft on kraft.

On top of the kraft cut I added the 4x6 photo, two small stickers from the sticker sheet and my journaling printed on colored vellum from Studio Calico.

On top of the photo I added a cut out from one of the Midnight Project Life core kit cards ("this photograph").

Go, Simon go!

SUPPLIES

Designer Digitals Quarterly Sale started yseterday (and runs through next week). Now is a great time to stock up on products that are all 40% off. On Saturday I'll be hosting a chat about the "hybrid life" and giving away a freebie over on Designer Digitals message board. Happy shopping!