If you read these posts often, you know that I try to do a "year in the life" album for my kids for every year. As I've worked on my boys' albums, sport seasons have become a huge challenge.
The sports seasons are a huge part of their lives and very important to them. By the time we go to all those games, there are literally hundreds of pictures. And I'm just not able to narrow the photos down to pages for one or two pages. So I always end up with multiple 2 page layouts. And in the various albums, I've tried to make them look alike, I've tried to use a common design element (e.g., stars) to connect them, and I've just ignored the connection. All of the approaches have pluses and minuses.
But lately I've been working on Nicholas's senior year album and I tried something different. I pulled together a kit of papers, cardstock and embellishments that I used for the layouts - there were 7 this year. After that I didn't worry at all about the connection. The end result was cohesive layouts that were still visually interesting.
The papers were mostly Fancy Pants and Simple Stories, but the green was Echo Park and there is a red chevron from Jillibean. I had themed embellishments, wood, stars, sequins, vellum arrow die cuts and enamel dots in my embellishment stack.
Here are the layouts (and some things I learned):
By using the same background paper on all the layouts, I created a feeling of "a mini album inside a larger album.
Washi tape was a great addition to the kit - a quick and easy way to add interest to pages and able to be used in a lot of ways.
The Martha Stewart chalkboard labels were a great way to add consistent journaling throughout the series of layouts. And mixing themed and non themed embellishments created added lots of interest.
Using the same thickers throughout was a great unifying touch. And use thickers from an coordinating set to add the uniform number to sports layouts as an embellishment.
Experiment with different shapes and title treatments for interest. This circle layout ended up being one of my favorites.
Combine a frame with a themed embellishment to create an interesting embellishment.
Think out of the box when your journaling. I printed the bio he wrote for the senior night presentation on vellum here.
Hope this gave you some ideas for your sports season layouts. I'd love to hear your ideas too.
Have a fantastic Friday.
The sports seasons are a huge part of their lives and very important to them. By the time we go to all those games, there are literally hundreds of pictures. And I'm just not able to narrow the photos down to pages for one or two pages. So I always end up with multiple 2 page layouts. And in the various albums, I've tried to make them look alike, I've tried to use a common design element (e.g., stars) to connect them, and I've just ignored the connection. All of the approaches have pluses and minuses.
But lately I've been working on Nicholas's senior year album and I tried something different. I pulled together a kit of papers, cardstock and embellishments that I used for the layouts - there were 7 this year. After that I didn't worry at all about the connection. The end result was cohesive layouts that were still visually interesting.
The papers were mostly Fancy Pants and Simple Stories, but the green was Echo Park and there is a red chevron from Jillibean. I had themed embellishments, wood, stars, sequins, vellum arrow die cuts and enamel dots in my embellishment stack.
Here are the layouts (and some things I learned):
By using the same background paper on all the layouts, I created a feeling of "a mini album inside a larger album.
Washi tape was a great addition to the kit - a quick and easy way to add interest to pages and able to be used in a lot of ways.
The Martha Stewart chalkboard labels were a great way to add consistent journaling throughout the series of layouts. And mixing themed and non themed embellishments created added lots of interest.
Using the same thickers throughout was a great unifying touch. And use thickers from an coordinating set to add the uniform number to sports layouts as an embellishment.
Experiment with different shapes and title treatments for interest. This circle layout ended up being one of my favorites.
Combine a frame with a themed embellishment to create an interesting embellishment.
Think out of the box when your journaling. I printed the bio he wrote for the senior night presentation on vellum here.
Hope this gave you some ideas for your sports season layouts. I'd love to hear your ideas too.
Have a fantastic Friday.
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Great series of pages! Love your use of multiple photos!
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