Friday, May 25, 2012

On Daddy's Shoulders

My daughter sure is one lucky girl.  My husband treats her like a princess.  Heaven help the man that marries her, because he will have some steep standards to live up to!  I love to watch the two of them together because they bring out the silliness in each other!  He just loves to bop around with her riding on his shoulders, and she lets out the loudest squeals of excitement!  So when I captured these photos at the zoo last weekend I knew I had to do them justice and highlight this special bond!



The focal photo is my favorite picture ever (right now!) so I wanted it to be big.  I didn't want to clutter the layout with a bunch of photos from this day, even though I took 319, because they would have taken away from my very specific purpose of highlighting a relationship.  This is unusual for me as I usually like to pack my layouts as full of photos as I can!  But this picture was one I was proud to capture with my newly learned photography skills:


The layout itself is fairly straightforward.  My color choice was obvious based on the focal picture!  I worked to achieve simplicity yet interest herewith the title treatment (2 styles of chipboard letters and letter stickers), the paper strip and rickrack at the top (my"sky"), and the flower border (formerly white and sprayed with pink ink).  I also had my husband write the journaling because I wanted Grace to hear Daddy's voice in her scrapbooks too.  Here are some detail shots (click to enlarge):



Well I thank you for stopping by today.  I am happy I could share two layouts in one week!!!  Now I am off to shoot some more photos downtown.  I will share if any are good :)  Have a great weekend all!






6 comments:

  1. Great post Kristy! Love the layout... you did a great job of keeping it simple to show the father daughter bond. I'm so jealous of all you scrapbooking moms, I have so many pictures but have yet to print and scrap book... I need a class lol Maybe you and Melissa can team up and hold a seminar for scrappy challenged moms like me!

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    1. Thank you Amy! Simple is sometimes hard for me because I always want to try out every technique I have recently read about! I would love to hold some kind of seminar if you or anyone you know would be interested. I have a FB business page that I began to create custom layouts, but I would have lots of fun running a seminar. Please Like my page for updates and such!

      http://www.facebook.com/KristysScrapsOfLife

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  2. I used to scrap book all the time, I miss it-but can never seem to fit it into my busy days. As my children get older, I would love to start scrappin again. Love the layout you did!

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    1. Believe me, it is tough to fit into my days, even with one baby! And I seem to keep taking on more and more! But for me I just love the process and try not to think about the thousands of photos left unscrapped...

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  3. These are beautiful photos! There is something so special about the bond between a father and a daughter. Love the layout, too.

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  4. Thank you Emily! I was so excited that I captured how special the bond was on camera! He is smitten!

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