A One-derful Easter

The layout I am sharing today is another for my youngest daughter's baby album. It is the story of her first Easter. Because of her birthday, her first Easter fell after she had already turned one and I wanted to emphasize this on this layout. 

I participated in Simple Scrapper's Square One class this year and this layout is based on Sketch 613. I took a lot of liberties with this sketch to make it work for me and this layout. It had a band of paper at the left of the 2 page layout. It wasn't a 12x12 two page layout sketch, so I had to modify the sizes of things to make them work. 

The papers I used were from American Crafts Hello Spring paper pad. I only had one piece of the pink dotted paper left to use so I used a half and half design to stretch it across the two pages.

I found the Easter title in a SCT Sampler kit and paired it with tiles from Simple Stories.

To embellish, I had bunny buttons in my stash and figured it was time to use them! The butterflies I cut from a cut apart card from the paper pad and I created the labels using Elle's Studio stamps. Finished the clusters off with star Thickers and some pearls from my stash.

Initially I tried using AI to create a clever title that emphasized the fact that my daughter's first Easter was after she had turned a year old. It came up with nothing good. I outsourced it to the Simple Scrapper members that were at a zoom crop and this was the title they came up with, with the egg on the O and everything!

The title was fun to make mixing a glittered Thicker font, some flat stickers from Kelly Purkey and the puffy alpha from SEI. 

The chipboard circle was from Ali Edwards that I picked up from a local crop's free table. 

Love how this came out, even though I don't know if you looked at the sketch, you would be able to tell I started there! 

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Ally at Bedtime

This layout I am sharing today was inspired by the Square One class at Simple Scrapper. I had this story saved as an Apple Note and thought sketch 568 would be perfect for it!

The background paper was from Dear Lizzy Star Gazer collection. The other paper were from Shimelle’s Little By Little collection. I saw the owl on the cut apart and thought it was on theme for my story.

I used wood veneer from my stash and some Felicity Jane alphas for the title. 

So glad to get this story told! Thanks for taking a look!

 

Rosie’s First St. Patrick’s Day

The layout I am sharing today is for my youngest's baby album to celebrate her first St. Patrick's Day. I used Simple Scrapper sketch 241 to participate in the Square One class. I modified the sketch a bit using 3x4 photos instead of 4x4 and replaced one of the 4x6 with 2 3x4 photos.

The strips of paper on the right of the layout inspired me to use a rainbow of papers. It was a great way to use up some of the 6x6 papers from my stash, some of which were SCT Sampler papers.

The chipboard Thickers were from an Amy Tangerine collection but they were craft. I loved the size and sentiment of them but the color wasn't working for me so I heat embossed it gold. Which was on theme for St. Patty's day! I used the same rainbow papers to run across the top of my journaling card that were on the right page and layered the title over the top. 

The rubber rainbow pieces were an Ali Edwards product that I picked up from a free table at an in-person crop, another perfect embellishment for this page.

I had fun embellishing the rainbow strips with repeating embellishments, trying to go tone on tone. 

Finished it off with some star gems in most of the colors of the rainbow. 

Love how the sketch informed the products and direction of this layout to include the rainbows. Loved getting this story told and using up quite a few things from my stash.

 

Details- Ally and Rosie’s purses

The layout I am sharing today was inspired by Ali Edwards Story Stamp for the theme of Details. After consuming the class content I was inspired to do a flat lay of my girls’ new purses and what were currently in them. 

When selecting a sketch, I remembered seeing on in the Square One classroom that would work perfectly with the number of photos and story, and used Simple Scrapper Sketch number 315.

When going through my old SCT Sampler stash I ran across the perfect collection for this from My Mind’s Eye Cool Vibes that matched mood and color for my story. Used the 6x6 papers to make layers under the photos and used the die cuts to embellish.

I remembered seeing the “details” Vicki Boutin Thickers in my stash and thought it would work for this layout as well. 

Finished it off with a few stamped sentiments from the Story Stamp and used the enamel dots that were in the Sampler Kit. 

Love using up things from my stash and getting another fun story told about right now!
 

You’re Invited

The layout I am sharing today was inspired by the Ali Edwards Story Stamp for the theme of Savor as well as Shimelle’s Use What You Buy Class for Stickers. 
 

The lesson challenge was to use a tuck away border. I used so many stickers! Some from Shimelle’s Box of Crayons sticker folder, some American Craft sticker books and Maggie Holmes gold foil stickers. 

The layers of paper and journal card were from a SCT Sampler in my stash. 

Love sneaking in some of the stamps in with the stickers and in the red pattern as well. 

This was a fun one to make! Thanks for stopping by!

I Hope For You

 

The layout I am sharing today was inspired by Ali Edwards Hope Story Stamp as well as the first session of Square One class at Simple Scrapper. The class challenge was to create space for journaling and I used the rays on this sketch to house my journaling. 

I found a patterned paper that had a radial pattern on it which limited the choices of papers I needed to make to create this layout!   

I used the stamp set to create the title as well as a sentiment for the tab at the bottom. 

The star stickers were from Ali Edwards and matched the colors perfectly!

So happy with how this layout turned out and that some of my hopes have already come to fruition! 

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Family Tree

The layout I am sharing today was inspired by the Family Story Stamp by Ali Edwards. The stamp “sometimes family is just hard” resonated with me to tell the story of my complicated family tree. 
 

The background paper is one from a Jen Hadfield collection. I used a leaf die and manually cut all of the leaves. I inked the leaves based on parentage but not sure how noticeable it was in the end. 

I hand stitched the lines to connect the leaves with embroidery floss. 

I used an acrylic word from a SCT Sampler kit and letter stickers from my stash. 

I was hesitant in adding the cluster at the top and the right side of the journaling, that it would be too much, but I really wanted to use the stamps and I am happy with the result. 

Names were added to the leaves after I took this picture for privacy and I am sure someone would be mad on my choices on who and how to include this information. 

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