My Type of Fun

 

I had these photos of my son next to the letters outside Disneyland California Adventure printed quite a while ago. I wasn't sure if I was going to frame them and hang them in his wall, or create a layout or another crafty project with them. 

When I was going through Ali Edwards' Story Class for the theme of Type, these pictures came to mind, so I wrote the story behind them. 

I struggled selecting products for this layout, because while the photos are somewhat Christmas holiday related, the story wasn't. I decided after finding the "Make the Letter" pattern in my stash, that I would lean into the red and green with a mix of blue to pull out my son's blue shirt in the photos.

I had too many 4x6 photos to make this a one page layout, so I went to my Christmas stash and tried finding two papers to use as a background. There I found two old pieces of Basic Grey patterns that would work well together even though they were not the same pattern. This also happened to work for the first supply for a Simple Scrapper Stash Bash challenge.

The title I created was from a mix of stickers from my stash: puffy's from Felicity Jane, Thickers and a glitter word sticker from a SCT Sampler kit I was happy to use. The word sticker also met the "larger than 2 inches" supply requirement for the Stash Bash challenge. The letters in the photos could also work!

I have been trying to use up my SCT Sampler kits so after selecting the background papers, I found coordinating papers and scraps that worked with my color scheme from some SCT Sampler kits and cut circles and leaves to use as embellishments. 

I ended up using three stamps from the Type Story Stamp set: the happy, "so thankful for this type of day" and oh, yeah, sentiments.

To finish it off I used gold staples from my stash to complete the Stash Bash challenge of using an "attacher" on the layout. I had gold foiled accents on other pieces of my layout, so I went with the gold staples match.

So happy to have these photos documented! Thanks for stopping by!

Seasons

The layout I am sharing today was inspired by many people. The story was Inspired Scrapbooking from Stacy Julian, a class from Big Picture Classes many years ago. I found the journaling when Ali Edwards Story Stamp for the theme of seasons came out in 2018. 

It finally bubbled to the top as a layout to create when I was working through Shimelle’s Use What You Buy class on Stamping. 

Shimelle’s lesson was to use a quadrant foundation with tone on tone stamping for each quadrant. 

I used a worksheet my son had made in school when they were learning about the seasons. I thought it would be fun to have a mat behind the season that coordinated with color and season of stamps from the Season Story Stamp.

It was a challenge to fit the oversized worksheet, the journaling and have the stamping show, but I am happy with it in the end. 

Finally have this story told and it feel great to have in my album!

Thanks for stopping by!
 

Rosie at 10 Months

The layout I am sharing today is another of my youngest’s baby album, for ten months.

The folded circles to squares was a technique I saw Paige Evans use a decided it would be a fun way to create a page. It also satisfied Simple Scrappers challenge this month with paper piecing.

It took a while to figure out how big the circles needed to be and how much to gold each edge to make a square, but one I had created a template, it was easy going after that.

The papers I used are from an old SEI collection I have had in my stash. 

Used the same title work as the other monthly pages in this album using Ali Edwards digitals to cut on my Silhouette machine.

For the accompanying journal pages, I carried the same technique to tie it all together.

I love how this all came together. Glad to have tried this technique for something new and a chance to play with paper in a new way.

Thanks for looking!

 

Best Friends with Dorthy

 

The layout I am sharing today was inspired by Ali Edwards Friend Story Stamp. 

In the Simple Scrapper community we had a challenge to find a video of a technique I wanted to try and use that technique as the starting point for a layout. 

Knowing I wanted to use stamps, I knew a stamping video would be best. I found this YouTube video from Scrap Happy about stamping backgrounds. 

If you look closely at my layout, you will notice that the background paper was stamped. I used a  purple Vicki Boutin, Color Study paper and used the Story Stamps to create a pattern.

This is definitely a technique I will use again!

I wanted to use some new 49 and Market Stamp and die set of butterflies on this layout to make my own embellishments. It was fun to play with layering 2 different inks and adding a bit of water to the process to play with the look of them. Super versatile and fun set to use!

Love that I had the butterfly branding strip from a Vicki paper to use as well!

When collecting supplies for this layout, I realized I had quite a bit of friend themed supplies: thicker phrases, acrylic words, stickers, stamps and more! I thought these Heidi Swapp title stickers were the perfect color and sparkle for this layout!

I enjoyed making this layout, using some neglected things from my stash and telling this story! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Embracing this Home

Today I am sharing a layout I created that was inspired by the Home Story Stamp by Ali Edwards. 

At the time of the photos, I had made some design decisions in furnishing and decorating my home and wanted to document them. 

I used a sketch from a Traci Reed sketch here. I have quite a few SCT Sampler kits in my stash, so when I saw this sketch, I saw the 6x6 paper possibilities!

This layout also works for Simple Scrapper’s maximalist challenge this journey. There are a lot going on with the patterns, photos and words. Love how it turned out, though!

Products were from Jen Hadfield’s Star Dust Collection that came in my SCT Sampler.

The background paper was from a Jen Hadfield  12x12 paper pad. 

I layered white circles under the patterns to provide some contrast from the background. 

Jen Hadfield’s collections usually have house motifs and so that was why I was drawn to using her products. Love how it turned out!

 Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!

Currently Designing a Summer You Love

The layout I am sharing today was part of a Simple Scrapper Stash Bash Challenge. I participated in a Blind Scrap, where a list of “rules” were made and I was to create a layout that met all of them.

The first rule was to use a sketch or layout that was from 2008 or older. I found a sketch in an old Scrapbooks Etc. magazine from 2007.

Next 3 rules have to do with the paper. The back ground had to be black, white or black and white. We had to use a text print and a scrap piece of paper.

I used the Design Story stamp to stamp the text to create one of the required papers. I also used another stamp for the sticker embellishment. 

The scraps were used to back the sun cut file. 

Adding texture to an edge was on the list of rules. I used my distress tool on the edge of the pink mat to add texture.

Another rule was to use two different type faces for the title. I used an acrylic word from a Scrapbook and Cards Today Sampler Kit as well as a chipboard piece from the Design Story Kit from Ali Edwards.

Using at least 3 flat stickers was part of the challenge. I wound up using 6- 3 labels, 3 suns.

More rules were to use a stamp set that had 2 or more circles and use at least one on a layout. The Yay stamp was an Elle’s Studio+Creative Bubble Summer stamp set. 

I used a cut file from Paige Evans on the base layer.

Love how this came together and happy to use some things from my stash I would not have otherwise without the challenge! Thanks for looking!

 

Rosie’s Baby Album- seven months

Created this layout for my youngest daughter’s baby album using a sketch in the Simple Scrapper membership. 

Used a few papers from an old WeRMemory Keepers baby collection.

Die cut the title on my silhouette using a digital stamp from Ali Edwards.

Created coordinating journaling pages that will go back to back in a 8.5 x 11 page protector. 

I always struggle making sure I leave myself enough coordinating supplies (I may have had to gut the blue paper behind the photo to have enough to die cut the title 🤪)  but pulled it together. 

Thanks for looking!