More Layouts from Trevor

After he made his first scrapbook layout, there was no stopping Trevor. Here are his 2nd and 3rd pages. This is a page about his first time on skis. 

You can see my page about the same thing here. In fact, I used the same photo (and four others) on my layout. For the past year or so, I've been hopping around between photo developers on a quest to find the one with the photo-developing holy trinity of decent quality, acceptable price, and reasonable wait time. When I printed the skiing photos, the developer was very cheap and very fast. But the photos were unacceptably dark, so I printed them again with someone else and scrapped those. Trevor dug this too-dark photo out of my printed-but-didn't-scrap pile. I offered to have it reprinted before he scrapped it, but any wait time is too long for him when he's inspired to create, so he happily used it as is.

Trevor chose two photos from our most recent Bear Valley trip to scrap next.

He specifically looked for pictures of him with his grandparents and titled his page "FUN! With grandma pat and grandpa dave!" My layout about the same trip is here. 

Trevor has asked me to print photos from his Cub Scout overnight at the USS Hornet and from his ice skating recital for him to scrap. He also has a school photo he wants to scrap. Once he realized that he can enter his layouts in the fair, he's even more motivated to finish more pages. I love that.

Trevor's First Layout

Trevor made his first scrapbook as a Tiger Cub requirement in October 2012. Despite how much he loved making it and how proud he is of it, he hadn't expressed an interest in scrapbooking since then... until last Sunday at 6:00 am. 

Trevor had so much fun roller skating on Valentine's Day and really wanted to make a page about it. Urgently. Right that very minute. At 6:00 am. I didn't have those prints yet, so I offered him the stack of printed photos to see if there was something else he wanted to document. He spread them all out on the floor and then started making piles. I handed him a stack of patterned papers, the trimmers, and some adhesive to use while I showered and made breakfast. When I checked on him, this is what I found:

He was so incredibly proud of it. He explained that he chose the two papers because the dots reminded him of Easter eggs. He chose the four pictures because two are of him dyeing eggs and two are of him hunting for eggs. He did his journaling on white so that it would be easy to read and in pencil in case he made a mistake and wanted to erase (which he did not).

He asked if I was going to put it in my album. I said that would be fine, or he could have his own album to put pages in if he's planning to make more. He said an enthusiastic, "YES!", so he now has his own album to house his pages. Hopefully I'll have more of his pages to share in the near future.