Celebrate 6

The layout I am sharing today was inspired by the Ali Edwards Story Stamp for the theme of Celebrate. 

When working through Shimelle’s Use What You Buy Class, Stencil edition, I thought the sketch I originally selected here would work well with her third lesson.

I used Maggie Holmes Confetti paper pad for most of the layout, with exception of the rainbow ledger paper which is from Shimelle’s Main Character Energy paper pad.

I used gesso on the ledger paper to allow the wet media I was putting on top, not to soak through. It is also a little magic in that “mistakes” can be erased with a bit of water and a towel. Makes the process a little more forgiving.

The gesso and mixed media did make the paper curl and warp, which adding the base paper frame helped a bit to flatten out. 

I used Distress Inks with the packaging technique at the top and stenciled the matching color underneath. 

Since this layout started with the Story Stamp set, I managed to use a few in the layers of mixed media and at the end of the journaling block.  Love the touch it added. 

I selected ink colors to match the tickets in the collection I chose and lined them under the photos and title block. 

The sketch I used had banners represented, but since the story award about party hats, I detail cut the hats to embellish instead. 

The title used a banner from the Confetti paper pad, an acetate number from Felicity Jane and celebrate was cut with a SCT Sampler Kit die. 

Love how it came together! Thanks for stopping by!

 

Spring Break Adventures 2024

This layout was inspired by Ali Edwards' Adventure Story Stamp. Once it was in progress, I used a challenge from Simple Scrappers' Refresh Retreat in May to complete it. The challenge was to use 9 photos to tell the story and to use a product based class for a technique or starting point. I decided to use Shimelle's Use What You Buy Stencil Edition for my technique.

 

Shimelle's UWYB lesson that I used was to emboss and ink a panel. I found a stencil and ink blended a white panel with 3 inks that coordinated with the papers I had chosen from a SCT Sampler Kit. I hadn't ink blended over a stencil before so I started there instead of the embossing. I was unaware that the stencil I had chosen was larger than my die cut platform so I wouldn't be able to emboss with my Sizzix machine. Instead I got out a stylus and did the embossing by hand. I do not recommend. I was committed and didn't want to re-ink so I just finished the job. 

I used the Adventure Story stamp set to embellish the tags and used the enamel dots and die cuts from the same SCT Sampler kit to finish it off. 

For the journaling, I used the Daily Story Stamp for the days of the week and printed my journaling on clear sticker paper and placed it after stamping. Use the "adventure memories" from the Adventure Story Stamp. Wood veneer are from my stash.

Created a fun title treatment using 3 different stamps. The "adventures" did not come from the Story Stamp but from an old Technique Tuesday set. The tiles came from a Stamping Up! set that I had a coordinating square punch for. Added the string to bring the string from the tags at the top of the page in a third spot. Thought it also brought more attention to the title.

I created a companion page of sorts to go with this one. I had Spring Break Adventures for my other daughter the week after. Will share that one soon!