Monday, February 12, 2024

This is What I Love Right Now-Maddie@14


 Every year on my kids’ birthdays I document their favorites. I capture the same list of things every year. Fun to see how things change and stay the same. 

For this year’s favorites, I used a stamp set from Studio Calico and Ali Edwards Now Story Stamp, and most pieces come from a SCT Sampler. I used a Vicki Boutin paper for the circle.

Love the butterflies for this since I feel my daughter has grown and changed so much this year! 

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Design a Life I Love


Here is a layout I created using the Story Kit and stamp for the theme of Design.


The border stamping was a technique that Ali Edwards used in creating her layout for the classroom and I mimicked here.


Love how it turned out and I want to do stamping like this again on another layout!

 

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Aaron's Faves



This layout was inspired by Ali Edwards' Hello Story class. The story structure for this one was Opposites.

I decided to use the annual story of my son's favorites this year as well as his least favorites for a twist this year.


The background was created by stamping and heat embossing the background circles. Some of the circles are from Laura Wonsik's collaboration with Ali Edwards and the others are a set from Studio Calico. 
I created the full circle using a stitch stamp set from Elle's Studio that was a good diameter and masked the other half. 



I designed myself in a corner with the black paper, because journaling in white wasn't going to easily happen. I have no luck with the white journaling pens. So instead I printed the journaling and reversed the black on white for the white side. 

This was a lot of work, but love how it turned out and to use so many of the untouched stamps in my stash!


 

Friday, November 24, 2023

When Tiffany Met Tom


This layout was inspired by the Hello Story class by Ali Edwards. The lesson was on Mathematics, and while this layout doesn't overtly look like it works, the journaling was created by subtracting words from a book page. 
 

My supplies were inspired by a challenge over at Simple Scrapper, to do a monochromatic layout with the background being black and white. Since the book paper was cream, I opted for a cream and black pattern. Thought the Maggie Holmes music paper fit the theme for this story well.


I struggled with picking a story to tell with this technique, but when I found the book paper and started finding a story within the words, I knew it had to be used to tell how my husband and I met.

I found some Story Kit pieces of chipboard from the Begin Story Kit and Time Story Kit that worked well as well as the First Story Stamp.


Thursday, November 9, 2023

Seek


Sharing a layout I created that was inspired by Ali Edwards' Story Stamp by the theme of Seek.

I went a completely different direction than the color scheme of the kit for this one because of the red in my daughter's jacket. 

The background paper is one of Vicki Boutin's mixed media papers. The Journaling cards are from Shimelle but only one was used as a card. The others I cut into circles. The polka dot has an embossed treatment, which I love the added texture of.



Used quite a few of the stamps from the Seek set. 8 to be exact! Love that the camera was made up of two; the outline and a stamp to fill it in with color.



The paper ribbon down the center was something that I picked up from my friend Tami and love the texture and dimension that it gives the layout. 

Love how this one turned out. Thanks for looking!






 

Friday, October 6, 2023

Community


This layout was inspired by the Community Story Stamp by Ali Edwards. 

The journaling was something I had written for Simple Scrapper after I was asked to be their first Member Profile within the membership. 

The post card image of the old Simple Scrapper logo was from a kit I got from Everyday Explorers that was a collaboration with Simple Scrapper.


The supplies from this layout are from Felicity Jane. I managed to pick up a handful of their products before they closed up their shop.


I was in a stash bashing mood and got into my button stash to locate a few to embellish this layout instead of my go-to enamel dots. Love the stitching detail it adds. 

The leave die cuts are from an old Sizzix die from my stash. 

 

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Tough


Sharing a layout I created for Shimelle's Use What You Buy- Stamp Edition as well as Ali Edwards Story Stamp for the theme of Tough.

I struggled with this one, selecting appropriate papers and embellishments, but when I saw Shimelle's cloud paper, it seemed perfect for this story. Not too happy, not too sad, perfect for a "tough" story.
 


I had some cloud stamps in my stash that I used for this as well as the Tough Story Stamp. 



Used some stamps from a collaboration between Ali Edwards and Laura Wonsik, the half circles.


Used some Thickers for the title and put my journaling on a tag with some twine from my stash. Love how it turned out!