Write a Good Story

Sharing a layout today that was inspired by Shimelle’s Layer on Layer on Layer class as well as Ali Edwards’ Story Stamp for the theme of Write and worked for a challenge at Simple Scrapper to capture another person’s voice.

When I saw the Story Stamp theme of write I knew it would be perfect to capture my oldest daughter’s love of writing books. 

I used Vicki Boutin’s Discover + Create collection using paper and the paperie pack for the journaling spot and labels. I found the pencil die cut in my stash. 

This layout uses inspiration from Shimelle’s lesson on using envelopes and pockets for layering in Layer on Layer on Layer. I used some glassine pockets to hold miniature copies of the books my daughter created. The were full legal sized books and for them to easily be included I copied and reoriented at a quarter of its original size.

Including the books captured her voice on this layout. The book that she wrote all about her captures her favorites and things she finds important about her right now. So fun to read!

She has loved to created books even before she could write words! Now that she does write, they are so fun to read!

Because of her creative spelling in her earlier book, I created labels that translated to be understood.

Love to have her books captured and this story told in this way! Thanks for stopping by!

 

Rosie- 4 Months

 

Sharing the first of many of my daughter’s baby album layouts! So excited to be making progress on this album project! 

The plan for this album is similar to my other baby albums. A  layout, a journaling insert and a collage of monthly photos for each month of her first year. There will be additional layout for first holidays and events as well as birth story and waiting for you type layouts.

For this layout I started with a sketch from this journey’s Spark Magazine in the Simple Scrapper membership. It was also a stash buster which coincided with the Stash Bash event! Loved getting these flowers out of my stash and onto a layout! 

I used supplies from Simple Stories Color xxx collection as well as some old Quick Cutz dies for the foliage. 

I created the title from a digital stamp from Ali Edwards paired with a blocky font I stretched to fit the width of the “months” word, that you will see the same style repeated in the album.

After learning from the last baby album that it was easier to create the journaling insert along side the layout that after the fact so that it could coordinate, I am able to share those as well. 

I used another Ali Digital Stamp to cut the title as well as the same font in a banner for continuity. 

So happy to be at a great start with this album! Thanks for stopping by!