Aaron's Faves

This layout was inspired by Ali Edwards' Hello Story class. The story structure for this one was Opposites.

I decided to use the annual story of my son's favorites this year as well as his least favorites for a twist this year.

The background was created by stamping and heat embossing the background circles. Some of the circles are from Laura Wonsik's collaboration with Ali Edwards and the others are a set from Studio Calico. 

I created the full circle using a stitch stamp set from Elle's Studio that was a good diameter and masked the other half. 

I designed myself in a corner with the black paper, because journaling in white wasn't going to easily happen. I have no luck with the white journaling pens. So instead I printed the journaling and reversed the black on white for the white side. 

This was a lot of work, but love how it turned out and to use so many of the untouched stamps in my stash!

 

When Tiffany Met Tom

This layout was inspired by the Hello Story class by Ali Edwards. The lesson was on Mathematics, and while this layout doesn't overtly look like it works, the journaling was created by subtracting words from a book page. 

 

My supplies were inspired by a challenge over at Simple Scrapper, to do a monochromatic layout with the background being black and white. Since the book paper was cream, I opted for a cream and black pattern. Thought the Maggie Holmes music paper fit the theme for this story well.

I struggled with picking a story to tell with this technique, but when I found the book paper and started finding a story within the words, I knew it had to be used to tell how my husband and I met.

I found some Story Kit pieces of chipboard from the Begin Story Kit and Time Story Kit that worked well as well as the First Story Stamp.

Seek

Sharing a layout I created that was inspired by Ali Edwards' Story Stamp by the theme of Seek.

I went a completely different direction than the color scheme of the kit for this one because of the red in my daughter's jacket. 

The background paper is one of Vicki Boutin's mixed media papers. The Journaling cards are from Shimelle but only one was used as a card. The others I cut into circles. The polka dot has an embossed treatment, which I love the added texture of.

Used quite a few of the stamps from the Seek set. 8 to be exact! Love that the camera was made up of two; the outline and a stamp to fill it in with color.

The paper ribbon down the center was something that I picked up from my friend Tami and love the texture and dimension that it gives the layout. 

Love how this one turned out. Thanks for looking!