Game Time

I am sharing a layout that was inspired by Ali Edwards’ Story Kit for the theme of Play. 

During Simple Scrapper’s Refresh Retreat, one of the challenges was to tell a story about something we no longer play. I had had the photos of our game closet printed a while ago, but contrary to how I usually create, the story had not been written yet for these.

I chose to write this story from a different perspective given this challenge.

When selecting products, I chose to find something that was playful to go with the theme. I found this rainbow paper in Vicki Boutin’s Sweet Shop collection and thought it would be perfect.

For my journaling, I used the Story Kit “game time” card. I decided to mat using black to bring it all together.

I thought the acetate “let’s play” piece nestled well in the white space at the top and opted for stitching it on rather than staples or other adhesive.

I struggled to think of embellishments that would work for this story but I remembered I had a game related stamp set from Elle’s Studio. I used it to stamp pawns and dice. 

Spinners are also related to games and I had the vellum specialty paper from VB that I stamped some arrows and turned them into some.

I used some VB foam Thickers from a SCT Sampler kit that had this collection to embellish a bit more as well as some phrase stickers from the Story Kit for each embellishment cluster. 

Happy with how it turned out even if it is nothing like I had thought it would when I printed these photos a few years back. Happy to have this documented!

 

Burst Open

The layout I am sharing was inspired by the Ali Edwards Stork Kit theme of Open. I purchased the add on vellum tags with my Story Stamp set, giving me a taste of the kit without all of the components.

While watching Shimelle’s BOBW lives, she created a clothes line sketch and layout and thought it would be the perfect use of the tags!

I had quite the story to tell so this composition allowed for the space yet giving me room to play with the tags.

 

The background paper is an oldie but goodie Basic Grey background. I modified some of the tags length and even cut an element out of the middle of one that was getting covered by a photo to use elsewhere on the page.

One of the limitations of using sticker paper for the journaling is that it can only go up to 10.5 inches wide, which doesn’t span across the 12x12 canvas. To make this look more intentional I created an embellishment cluster to the right of it.

For a touch of color and the look of bursting open, I tore 2  edge sections of the background and peeled it back, exposing some Story Kit paper I had picked up from a revisited sale. 

Happy with how this one turned out. Thanks for visiting!

Rosie Makes

The layout I am sharing today was inspired by Ali Edwards’ Story Stamp for the theme of Make.

I went on a photo hunt for ways that Rosie was making for a few weeks. I was amazed at how many photos I took and found in my camera roll that worked for this story!

Because the photos had quite a few colors I used Vicki Boutin’s products, especially the rainbow paper to pull it all together. 

I used the “making” stamp to make little labels for each of the photos and embellished with a few others in this set. 

I hand cut the title to be on theme, being handmade. I thought it was also a way for me to bash some of the 6x6Vicki Boutin papers in my stash.

Love how this turned out! Thanks for stopping by!