My Type of Fun

 

I had these photos of my son next to the letters outside Disneyland California Adventure printed quite a while ago. I wasn't sure if I was going to frame them and hang them in his wall, or create a layout or another crafty project with them. 

When I was going through Ali Edwards' Story Class for the theme of Type, these pictures came to mind, so I wrote the story behind them. 

I struggled selecting products for this layout, because while the photos are somewhat Christmas holiday related, the story wasn't. I decided after finding the "Make the Letter" pattern in my stash, that I would lean into the red and green with a mix of blue to pull out my son's blue shirt in the photos.

I had too many 4x6 photos to make this a one page layout, so I went to my Christmas stash and tried finding two papers to use as a background. There I found two old pieces of Basic Grey patterns that would work well together even though they were not the same pattern. This also happened to work for the first supply for a Simple Scrapper Stash Bash challenge.

The title I created was from a mix of stickers from my stash: puffy's from Felicity Jane, Thickers and a glitter word sticker from a SCT Sampler kit I was happy to use. The word sticker also met the "larger than 2 inches" supply requirement for the Stash Bash challenge. The letters in the photos could also work!

I have been trying to use up my SCT Sampler kits so after selecting the background papers, I found coordinating papers and scraps that worked with my color scheme from some SCT Sampler kits and cut circles and leaves to use as embellishments. 

I ended up using three stamps from the Type Story Stamp set: the happy, "so thankful for this type of day" and oh, yeah, sentiments.

To finish it off I used gold staples from my stash to complete the Stash Bash challenge of using an "attacher" on the layout. I had gold foiled accents on other pieces of my layout, so I went with the gold staples match.

So happy to have these photos documented! Thanks for stopping by!

Seasons

The layout I am sharing today was inspired by many people. The story was Inspired Scrapbooking from Stacy Julian, a class from Big Picture Classes many years ago. I found the journaling when Ali Edwards Story Stamp for the theme of seasons came out in 2018. 

It finally bubbled to the top as a layout to create when I was working through Shimelle’s Use What You Buy class on Stamping. 

Shimelle’s lesson was to use a quadrant foundation with tone on tone stamping for each quadrant. 

I used a worksheet my son had made in school when they were learning about the seasons. I thought it would be fun to have a mat behind the season that coordinated with color and season of stamps from the Season Story Stamp.

It was a challenge to fit the oversized worksheet, the journaling and have the stamping show, but I am happy with it in the end. 

Finally have this story told and it feel great to have in my album!

Thanks for stopping by!
 

Rosie at 10 Months

The layout I am sharing today is another of my youngest’s baby album, for ten months.

The folded circles to squares was a technique I saw Paige Evans use a decided it would be a fun way to create a page. It also satisfied Simple Scrappers challenge this month with paper piecing.

It took a while to figure out how big the circles needed to be and how much to gold each edge to make a square, but one I had created a template, it was easy going after that.

The papers I used are from an old SEI collection I have had in my stash. 

Used the same title work as the other monthly pages in this album using Ali Edwards digitals to cut on my Silhouette machine.

For the accompanying journal pages, I carried the same technique to tie it all together.

I love how this all came together. Glad to have tried this technique for something new and a chance to play with paper in a new way.

Thanks for looking!