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!

 

Reads 2023

 

The layout I am sharing today was inspired by a Refresh prompt at Simple Scrapper. We were to tell a story about a passion of ours, collect items and photos to tell the story, and do something out of our comfort zone to create the layout.

I have been purchasing products and stamps to tell stories about my passion for reading for a while and this is one of the first to use these supplies! 

Goodreads luckily allowed me to go back to previous years of what I have read easily with all of the book covers. I was able to screenshot to add to this layout.

I rarely select a solid background because it makes me uncomfortable but it was a perfect match for the Shimelle book paper from an older collection.

I created a “bookmark” to tuck behind the journaling and decorated with stamps from Kerri Bradford. 

Other stamps were from Ali Edwards Read Story Stamp and Heidi Swapp. 

This feels more simple than my typical style, but love that this story is told! 

Thanks for stopping by!

10 Things I Love About You

This layout was inspired by Ali Edwards Story Stamp for the theme of For the Love. 

I journaled for this quite a while ago but when I went to make the layout, I remember I had a pocket from Little Yellow Bicycle that would be perfect to hold the journaling! The banner on the bottom of the pocket had choices to customize and “you” was perfect! I used the other banners around the page since they coordinated, and were great to tuck in the layers. Using pockets is also a challenge this Journey at Simple Scrapper!

The color scheme was then chosen by the colors in the pocket. 

The stamped background was an idea lifted from a layout in the classroom by Ali to layer a few of the stamps together. I chose to have my hearts all say the same thing, so used a “you” stamp from the Type Story Stamp. I filled in with a few other hearts stamps from my stash, the medium was from the Comfort Story Stamp and the small was from the XO Story Stamp.

The background still seemed a bit sparse so I added a few enamel hearts and splattered a bit of ink to give it a bit more texture.

 Love how this layout turned out and to use the pocket that has been languishing in my stash!

Thanks for looking! 

Write a Good Story

Sharing a layout today that was inspired by Shimelle’s Layer on Layer on Layer class as well as Ali Edwards’ Story Stamp for the theme of Write and worked for a challenge at Simple Scrapper to capture another person’s voice.

When I saw the Story Stamp theme of write I knew it would be perfect to capture my oldest daughter’s love of writing books. 

I used Vicki Boutin’s Discover + Create collection using paper and the paperie pack for the journaling spot and labels. I found the pencil die cut in my stash. 

This layout uses inspiration from Shimelle’s lesson on using envelopes and pockets for layering in Layer on Layer on Layer. I used some glassine pockets to hold miniature copies of the books my daughter created. The were full legal sized books and for them to easily be included I copied and reoriented at a quarter of its original size.

Including the books captured her voice on this layout. The book that she wrote all about her captures her favorites and things she finds important about her right now. So fun to read!

She has loved to created books even before she could write words! Now that she does write, they are so fun to read!

Because of her creative spelling in her earlier book, I created labels that translated to be understood.

Love to have her books captured and this story told in this way! Thanks for stopping by!

 

Rosie- 4 Months

 

Sharing the first of many of my daughter’s baby album layouts! So excited to be making progress on this album project! 

The plan for this album is similar to my other baby albums. A  layout, a journaling insert and a collage of monthly photos for each month of her first year. There will be additional layout for first holidays and events as well as birth story and waiting for you type layouts.

For this layout I started with a sketch from this journey’s Spark Magazine in the Simple Scrapper membership. It was also a stash buster which coincided with the Stash Bash event! Loved getting these flowers out of my stash and onto a layout! 

I used supplies from Simple Stories Color xxx collection as well as some old Quick Cutz dies for the foliage. 

I created the title from a digital stamp from Ali Edwards paired with a blocky font I stretched to fit the width of the “months” word, that you will see the same style repeated in the album.

After learning from the last baby album that it was easier to create the journaling insert along side the layout that after the fact so that it could coordinate, I am able to share those as well. 

I used another Ali Digital Stamp to cut the title as well as the same font in a banner for continuity. 

So happy to be at a great start with this album! Thanks for stopping by!

Best Little Surprises

Sharing a layout today that I created for the Surprise Story Stamp by Ali Edwards. 

This tells the story of the “little surprises” that my youngest would bring home in her preschool bag after school. 

I selected a notebook paper from my stash, as well as primary colored papers, to go with the school theme. I had rolls of decorative edged papers that I used around the layout.

As was a creative challenge at Simple Scrapper this journey, I created a pocket out of the bag photo, so the photos of the surprises could tuck in. The surprises come out of her bag just like real life.

I created tags out of the surprise photos and added twine to make easy to pull them out.

Along with the Surprise story stamp that I used the title and sentiments around the page for, I also used arrows from the 49 and Market Arrows Stamp set as well as the stitched circle stamp from Elle's Studio.

Some close ups of the embellishment clusters and stamping.

Thanks for stopping by for a look!