Scrapbook a Wall ?

Remember that holiday bazaar I told you about from November?  The bazaar was a total bust itself, but I did gain a client from it after the fact so it turned out to be worth it in the long run.  A very nice lady hired me to make her a scrapbook wall.  Yeah, you read that right.  It was for a Christmas gift for her grandparents.  Apparently there is some sort of wall on the side of their fridge.  It sounded like the kitchen and living room were open to each other and you can see this wall on the side of the fridge from the living room.  So she brought me a gigantic piece of thin wood to decorate as a humongous scrapbook page so they could then screw THAT piece of wood onto the wall on the side of the fridge.  This sucker was 83 inches tall and 23 inches wide.  And boy was it a challenge.  She brought me 36 photos I think and 8 quotes to add to this thing.  She was very clever in thinking ahead that there would be new babies coming into the family (she’s expecting one herself) and added the quotes to the wall so that they could be removed later and a photo added.  The photos were all grandchildren and great-grandchildren. 

This project was such a mental thing for me, trying to figure out where to put these photos so they would all FIT on there and would look lovely also.  I would lay them all out on the board with tiny glue dots and try to figure out a way to fit them all in there.  I would start at the top and make my way to the bottom, only to find out there wasn’t enough room at the bottom, or there was too much room, so then I would have to peel them all off and start again.  I can’t tell you how many times in those few weeks I wondered to myself what the hell did I get myself into?  But it was such a unique and cool idea that I was glad to have the challenge.  I’ll share the photos with you here.

This was the before photo.

And here is the finished project.

Here it is broken down into top half and bottom half so you can have a closer look.

TOP HALF:

BOTTOM HALF:

Just here and there on random photos I would tie ribbons around them, sometimes add a little tag with a straight pin.

Every Sunday they go have lunch with their grandparents, and her grandpa always says the same prayer.  I put this on black cardstock and attached it in the middle of all the photos.

See these pretty little flowers?  I cut those with my Pazzles machine.

And this is my favorite part of the whole wall.  I cut this with my Pazzles machine in a beautiful script font.  The letters are 2 inches high.

And that’s it!  What do you think?