Funny Little Story

This layout was inspired by the Fun Story Stamp by Ali Edwards. FUNNY enough though, the laugh story kit came out before I created the layout and so I used some stamps from both sets to tell this story.

I had recorded this story in 2017 the day it happened, knowing I wanted to create a layout about it later. I am definitely a document now create later kind of gal. 

It was conversation that my daughter and husband had and when I saw the speech bubble stamps on the Laugh kit, I thought it would be a perfect way to document the story. 

When putting this layout together, Ally wanted to help, and seeing it was a page about her, I let her help pick the supplies and colors of the layout. She selected a Basic Grey pattern for the back ground and then helped me find coordinating Distress Ink colors to stamp with. 

Created my own pattern paper on the left side of the layout using a mix of stamps from both the fun and laugh story stamp sets as well as some emojis from a Hip Kit stamp, I believe.

I created the journaling in PSE, using the digital stamps of the speech bubbles to help me know how the placement was going to work. Initially I was going to print the speech bubbles separate and layer on the background, but I printed incorrectly and was going to have to restamp them all and decided just to do it as one.

Used a lot of stamps on this layout. Used some for the title, the subtitle, the tag embellishments as well as the scalloped strip!

Loved how this turned out and how many of my stamps I played with and that got used on this layout! Also excited that I got this story told!

 

Lights, Camera, Action

I struggle with some of the Story Class themes from Ali Edwards when it comes to stories I want to tell. I struggled with Bloom and again with Action. I always stretch myself to find at least one story to tell, and love where it leads me. 

The layout that was inspired by the Action Story Stamp was one of those stories. 

I was inspired by "Lights, Camera, Action" as a title and went from there. It sparked the story of Maddie's favorite types of toys and how they are all props essentially to the shows and movies that she likes to watch.

I decided to do a lay flat photo of the toys that she is currently playing with and pair it with small 2x2 photos of her over the years playing with those toys. 

 

With my stash of products to use, I struggled to find a starting place. I even asked my friends at Simple Scrapper for a jumping off place. 

Ultimately the arrow on the stamp set inspired me to look for arrow patterns. I remembered one from a Studio Calico collection I had but I didn't use the one I had thought of because I found this rainbow arrow instead. I thought it pulled all of the bright colors from the toys.

Along the arrow theme, I also found some acetate arrows as well as some chipboard silver foiled arrows that paired nicely with the patterned paper I had found. I attached the acetate arrows with my Tim Holtz tiny attacher.

I don't have a wide format printer to print on 12x12 paper, so I printed on an 8.5x12 page and pieced it with the pattern on the right to stretch it to 12x12.

I am working my way through Ali Edwards' Type class right now as well, and the title work was inspired by the stacked type assignment. I used Kelly Purkey alphabet stickers along with the action stamp from the Action Story Stamp.

To go with the film themed title, I found a Teresa Collins stamp in my stash with the film strip. I stamped it on vellum and cut it out and layered it around the layout. 

In my main 3 areas of embellishment, I also added a stamped sentiment from the Story Stamp in Ali's Pendleton ink as well as some Heidi Swapp's Tinsel Color Shine splatters.

 Love the end result of this! Love what stories I can tell when I am inspired by Ali's Story themes. 

Thanks for checking out this layout!