May Everyday Pieces

Stacy Julian challenged us in the 20 in 20 class to create a May Everyday project. Part of her project was to collect the little bits of life to go with the photos and words. I have been using the Day One app to store and print the daily photos and words but I wanted to have a place to put the stuff. I decided to save a 2.5x2.5 inch square of stuff daily in May.

Here is the 2 page layout I created with the stuff I collected.

I don't use card stock backgrounds very often and when I do, they tend to be white. This layout was a far departure from that! I chose the navy background for two reasons. 

First a pattern would have been too busy with all of the "stuff" on this page. There were so many colors and patterns on this page, I didn't want to make it any more visually noisy. 

Second of all, there were quite a few pieces that were on white or near white and I wanted a bit of contrast so the pieces would stand out a bit, so I chose the navy.

I stitched using a zigzag stitch using my sewing machine to quilt the pieces together. I used the black and white puffy number stickers for most of the days that came from the left overs from my December Daily kit from Elle's Studio. 

I embellished with some stickers from Shimelle's sticker book and used some stamps from the "Stuff" Story Stamp from Ali Edwards. The title was created using two styles of Thickers.

So glad to have a snapshot using bits and pieces from our life right now. Think it will be fun to look back on years from now to see how packaging and things changed.

Thanks for stopping by!

Santa Monica

This is a layout from Scrapbook Generations that I tweaked to make my own. I actually had these pictures on another layout that had sat in my Pages in Progress pile for years. It was with the recent URHere layout  that I also redid.

I began this layout in 2008. I know this because one of the first projects I made on my new Circut Expression that I bought when they first made the 12x12 inch version. I was so proud of the title using the photos! 

That layout turned out okay and I was moving on to the last layout in this trip and I couldn't finish it with the supplies I had pulled. When I was going back through the pile, this kit jumped out to me as being able to work, especially since another kit using similar product was going to work for the last few photos I had for this trip.

 

I struggled on how to place the title. Part of me wanted to stack the words, but you would have lost the panoramic element to it, so I had it stretch across the first page.

I had journaling written for this page, which was super helpful in telling this story, but with a bit of time and reflection, I beefed it up a bit more to tie it with the other layouts from this trip so it tells a better over arching story.

I wasn't sure how to add all of the words. Finally decided that word strips would allow me to audition different places on the layout. And finally went with this.

So much happier with how it looks now, and how it interacts with the layout before and after it. 

Thanks for stopping by to check it out!

Exploring Santa Barbara Zoo

Today I am sharing another layout that has been in my Pages in Progress pile. 

One of the projects I have on my 20 in 20 class list to complete for 2020 is to finish 24 layouts from this pile. I figured that I could manage 2 layouts in the pile a month. Most of them need journaling and the date on them, so they shouldn't be that labor intensive. I figured that some of the pages would overlap with my Bucket List Project class that I am also taking this year. Hoping for a productive year!

This layout was inspired by Nichol Magouirk scrapbook layouts. She now is going by Nichol Spohr and almost exclusively creates and shares cards. But back in the Two Peas in a Bucket days, I was a big fan of her layouts. One of the reasons I found Ali Edwards and became obsessed with her stamps.

Here and here are a few examples of layouts Nichol has done to show the influences she had on this layout.

She used Kerri Bradford's photo collage templates a lot. I purchased a set and have used them on many layouts. They are a great way to get a ton of photos on a layout easily and in an ascetically pleasing design.

I used an old SEI scrapbook kit to create most of this page. The animal die cuts were adorable and the brown parts were flocked. 

The title was created using an old set of Thickers and tile letter stickers from Simple Stories.

The date I created from different old Ali Edwards stamp sets from Technique Tuesday.

Check out that Kangaroo die cut. Its baby was separate so you could place in and out of its pouch!

I managed to fit the journaling on two tags on opposite sides of the photos that were part of the kit I used.

I found some rub-ons in my stash that were zoo themed. I found quite a few worked with my photos and figured that if they worked I was going to use up as many I could.

Loved how this page came together! The last bit this layout needed was the date. I added the date circle once the date was located and it didn't take much to finish them. So glad to have this one in my album!

Thanks for stopping by to take a look!