Fortune Keeper

The layout I am sharing here started from a kit from Just Kitting. Just Kitting, owned and run by my mom, recently is no longer, unfortunately, due to concerns with copy right.

Most kits I have in my stash, I rarely keep as they are unmodified. This is another of those kits. I did keep the title as well as the main elements included with the kit, I just used them in different ways.

I never seem to have the right number or orientation of photos to use with these predesigned kits, so for this one, I created a band of photos and used the photo mat papers as a band to embellish the layout.

For reasons I don't really remember, I started collecting fortunes from cookies for Aaron and then my other kids. I found this layout a perfect way to use those collected bits to add to this story. I no longer hold on to them any more.

The dragon is a Cricut cut from one of the Disney cartridges. Below are some close ups of the fortunes. 

Thank you for looking! Hope to share another layout soon!

Moving - CA apt to house

I have a handful of layouts that have been on my "bucket list" for quite a while. Layouts that I have had photos printed, ready for the story for some time, they just haven't been completed.

I am participating in Simple Scrappers' Bucket List Project class and it has been motivating me to get these off my list and into my albums.

The layout I am sharing here is one of those layouts.

This layout design was a kit from Scrapbook Generations. I tend to modify these to fit the photo sizes and the amount of journaling I have to include. These kits tend to be a bit flat, so I tend to add a bit more texture and dimension to their kits.

I used to subscribe to Scrapbook Generations' kits for a few years, but struggled to find a use for all of the themes, especially when I began to start with story. I wasn't creating as quickly as they came in (5 a month at the time) so I quit subscribing. I was happy to find this one in my stash that fit the story I wanted to tell.

As always, I look through my stamp stash, especially my Story Stamp themes looking for stamps to embellish my layouts. For this layout, I was able to use a few from the Move and Home story theme sets.

Added the journaling card to tell more of my story as well as using foam adhesive to add dimension to the stickers and stamped embellishments.

Since these photos were of mostly empty rooms, I really wanted to add the "if these walls could talk" stamp. I found a label from Elle's Studio that fit the sentiment, but it was on white paper. Most of the elements from this collection were cream, so I got out my Distress Ink in Old Paper and distressed it a bit to blend in with the collection better. 

Love how this ended up coming together and love that this story is now off my bucket list and into my album!

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Love you to pieces

This layout was inspired by Ali Edwards' Story Stamp theme of pieces.

As part of the Story Stamp class material, Ali Edwards included a digital template that I was able to use to create the heart photo collage.

I used a similar page design as Ali did as one of her layouts, but instead of two pages smaller than 12x12, I modified it to one 12x12.

I hand wrote my journaling for this one, transcribing it from another source. I tend to write my journaling for these themes well before I am ready to scrapbook them. I was a bit nervous that I would get it all to fit, but I knew I had the other half of this pattern paper to redo it if I didn't get it right the first time.

I used a stamp in the set to create the title on my page using a black glitter embossing powder. I had some rainbow puffy heart stickers from Jillibean Soup that repeated the heart shape from the photo collage.

On the cork patterned paper, I used white embossing powder as well as a few of the other stamps in the stamp set to embellish. I used some decorative tape from Ali Edwards to cover the seam of the two patterns of the layout together.

Love how this one came out and how quickly since I had the framework of the layout designed ahead of time. 

Thanks for looking!