Take Me Up, Dad

This layout story was inspired by Ali Edwards’ Up Story Stamp. The design was inspired by Simple Scrapper’s Square One class. 

I used a Vicki Boutin mixed media background for the base of my layout. Not much of it is showing but love the cutfile layered over it.

I used an Amy Tangerine 6x6 paper pad to cut squares as was in the sketch design in the Simple Scrapper class. 

I was happy to find a way to use many of the stamps in the Up Story Stamp for this story. Can you spot the five I used?

The alphas are from Hip Kit and I was thrilled how well the colors matched! 

I wanted a cutfile background of arrows so I found a free one I had saved and replicated and modified it and make it work for the story I wanted to tell.

Loved how this one turned out and that this story is recorded. 

Moments

The layout I am sharing today was inspired by Ali Edwards Light Story Kit. As I was working through Simple Scrapper’s Square One class, there was a sketch that used quite a few 3x4 cards. I went through my Story Kit stash to see if there were any kits containing multiple cards I could use for the sketch. 

The Light Story Kit had these loving cards so I took the opportunity to come up with things I was loving as well as a few I was not loving. 

Paired with the selfie I took of myself at the time, I had all I needed to make a page!

I matched the colors of the journaling cards to a 49 and Market background paper from 49 and Market Spectrum Gardenia collection as well as the bonus elements on the packaging.  

Shopped my stash for some more 3x4 cards as well as a foam title and elements to match. 

I created my own not loving card using the Light Story Stamp and white heat embossed the loving sentiment .

Finished off with scribbly outlines of the cards and some black enamel dots. 

Super fun, stash busting challenge and happy to have this one in the books!

 

Crafty Time

This layout was inspired by Ali Edwards Time Story Kit and Stamp. 

The design was inspired by a sketch that I had saved on Pinterest here.

This journey at Simple Scrapper, the challenge was to have a layered title. This one used the Story Kit acrylic word and some Thickers.

The sentiment in the wood veneer circle was perfect for this story. I loved the sketch but, per my usual I had to find a creative solution for all of my words. I used vellum to print my journaling into strips and then layered them onto the bright strips of paper.

The paper including the background are from Vicki Boutin’s Color Study collection. 

It was fun to create the border of clocks at the top of the page that was inspired by how Ali Edwards used the clock stamp at the top of her page in the class content. I layered a piece of vellum with stamping at the top of the border. 

Loved how this one turned out! It was a fun one to make!

 

Make Up

This layout was inspired my the Up Story Kit by Ali Edwards. There is a stamp that says make up but I am not entirely sure if  it was intended for this meaning. 

This story felt like a 31 Things prompt and so it is no surprise that I had a lot to say on the topic. 

When I was working through Simple Scrappers’ Square One class and I was presented with a sketch that had space for a 6x12 sized photo, my brain went to the Simple Stories collections that had the 6x12 cut aparts that had journaling space. I then followed the sketch pretty closely. 

Since I started with a Simple Stories paper pad, I tried to find elements in the cut a parts and patterns that I could use to embellish. I leaned into the florals. The title I created using the Up story Stamp word using black ink and clear embossing powder on vellum as well as layering a stamp from the Make Story Stamp in black layered with red embossing powder.  

The labels came from a cut a part and I stamped with other stamps from my stash. To repeat the vellum, I pinched 2 circles and placed them in a visual triangle as a base for clusters.

Love how it turned out and that I was able to easily include all of my words in an aesthetically pleasing manner.  

 

What's in a name? Aaron

This layout was inspired by a bucket list story that I mentioned 3 years ago on the Scrapbook Your Way Podcast I was on with Jennifer Wilson. 

As part of a Stash Bash challenge with Simple Scrapper, I decided to tackle this story. The challenge was to make a page using nothing brand new, including at least one scrap, one item from a partially used pack, and one piece of ephemera. 

I was also working through the Your Layout Loop class with Story being the starting point.

I used Sketch #24 from Elle's Studio Sketch to Finish Vol 3 as the starting point to my layout. With the arrows behind the main elements on the sketch, I opted to use strips of paper scraps. Since I had way too many words to just fit in the 3x4 card used in the sketch, I modified it to also include the 6x6 paper to hold the rest. 

For the ephemera needed for the Stash Bash challenged, I cut the tickets from the coordinating Amy Tangerine Cut and Paste 6x6 paper pad. The 3x4 cards were from a partially used Project Life mini kit checking another requirement for the Stash Bash challenge.

The floral die cuts came from a Dear Lizzy pack and the iridescence on the florals were lovely to add. 

Used some enamel dots and a few heart puffy stickers that matched on of the title alphas as a finishing touch as well as stamped the date of the photo.

So happy to have this story told. Now I need to do it for the names of my other children. 
 

Grandma’s Wish

The layout I am sharing today is a Bucket List layout that was journaled several years ago. While taking Simple Scrapper's Your Layout Loop class, for the start with design prompt, we were given a sketch #839 and I found the printed photo for this story recently and thought it would be a good fit for it. 

What I found with starting with the sketch was that in doing so, I gave myself a lot more freedom to adapt it to fit. I rotated the sketch right off since my photo was the opposite orientation. There was a grid of circles across the page in the sketch and I had this flower die in my stash for over 15 years and decided this story of wishes would pair nicely. Initially I thought I would place them over circles, but their scale didn't really lend well to that, so I just had them flow down the page.

The title was a stash bash win as I found the blue acrylic word from my SCT Sampler stash. I paired it with the grandmother foam Thicker which was also in a SCT Sampler. I used the "s" from the word sister on the same sheet, because it felt better to use just the s than leave the sticker in my stash.

The color of the acrylic word informed the embellishments on my page. I found a scrap of blue card stock and decided to find some other dies to cut out butterflies.

I also found some 6x6 papers from my SCT Samplers that matched the blue title piece as well as the cloud background paper I found randomly in my paper stash. I felt the light wood grain paper warmed the layout up and used a heart punch to sprinkle the color around the butterflies.

This layout was an example of a page that doesn't require a lot of products to feel complete. Love how it turned out and happy to have this story told!

 

Sharing a layout today that was inspired by many things. For one, the story for this layout came out of the Ali Edwards' Birthday Story Stamp. I was inspired to work on it as part of a class at Simple Scrapper called Layout Loop for a layout that starts with a product, which in this case was the Story Stamp set. 

I also used two starting points to inform the design. The first page was inspired by a layout I had found on one of my Pinterest Boards. I scrap lifted the photo strips from the design. The second page was inspired by a Simple Scrapper sketch (#316) as part of another class, Square One.

 

I haven't been in the habit of creating many event based pages, so I was excited when I had the opportunity to use some birthday themed supplies. I found a Scrapbook Generation kit in my stash that the colors matched and the icons seemed most appropriate for this story. I had to give myself permission to use the supplies my own way rather than how the sketch and design had been originally used for.

The supplies were from Simple Stories and with my son going to an engineering school with robots and all, the icons worked!

I used a Vicki Boutin mixed media background as the base of my layout. 

I managed to squeak a Birthday Story Stamp on the layout by using one in my title. I also used one from the Family and Ampersand Story Stamps to create it as well. I used some lovely Felicity Jane puffy alpha and some Kelly Purkey alpha stickers to finish it off. 

I stuck pretty closely to the sketch for this one. The title is on the first page so I replaced that with some embellishments.

Because of the kit inspiration, I cut many of the icons from the square cut apart paper out and used them as die cuts instead. Great for matching embellishments! 

Finished the page off with some enamel dots and puffy phrase stickers from Elle’s studio.

Happy to have this event documented and loved how many challenges inspired it to become what it is!

Care Bear Love

This layout was inspired by Ali Edwards Care Story Stamp. It was something that came up when brainstorming ideas for this Story theme even though it didn’t match well with the stamps in the set. 

This layout design was influenced by Simple Scrapper sketch #853 in this Journey’s Spark Magazine and challenge. 

Most of the supplies are from Pretty Little Studio’s You Are My Sunshine collection. 

I have to admit that the paper texture threw me a bit when I got it in my hands. It almost has a glossy texture and the print seems to sit on top of the paper. It is not my favorite but I love the designs so used it anyway. The rainbow of bears and the rainbow paper were calling to each other!

For the journaling, because it contained a conversation I had with my girls, I found these speech bubble stickers and tried to color code them with who was speaking. The long form journaling I then added to the background using clear sticker paper, same for the speech bubbles. 

The title was made using the Story Stamp word, some alpha tiles from Shimelle’s Box of crayons sticker folder and Thicker phrases. 

Finished the layout off with some enamel dots from my stash.

Love how it all came together and glad to have this story documented!

Swim Progress

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

Simple Scrapper’s challenge this journey is to use a grid in the layout design. I had started with the cut apart piece of swim paper and found a grid the best way to house them and my photos.

The wave strip was from a scrap I had left over I found in my stash. Love that the colors coordinated so well and love the touch of sparkle. The background was from my stash. I liked the idea of arrows and progress and thought the paper was a good color match. 

I used the Story Stamp set on the title card and then sentiments on the photos. 

 I used another stamp to create a border at the bottom of my grid and separated them with enamel dots. 

Used a cluster of enamel dots around my layout in a triangle. 

Used a summer  Ali Edwards stamp plus a number stamp to add the date. 

Happy with how this turned out! Thanks for stopping by!

Summer Adjectives

 

This layout was inspired by a journaling prompt to describe the summer in 5 adjectives. It also works for Simple Scrapper’s Member Challenge to use text as design. 

I started with the alpha stickers in my stash in creating a kit to create this layout. From there, in working toward using more of the SCT kits in my stash, I found one that matched the color and theme to put in my kit. 

I wanted a fairly neutral background so I found a Vicki Boutin mixed media background in a grey that made the letters pop.  

The title was made from a 4x6 pocket card that I fussy cut out and the smaller letters are Thickers from Paige Evans. 

Pulled some summer themed stamps from my stash and used to make word strips and on the paper clip. 

Finished off with enamel dots and some iridescent zigzag trim from my stash.

Best Birthday Ever

The layout I am sharing today was inspired by Ali Edwards' Best Story kit and stamp. I thought the story of the "best birthday ever" was perfect for this theme. Who can beat a free day at Disney plus an evening with scrapbooking with friends!

I used Simple Stories Magical Birthday Collection Kit to create the layout and finished it off with the acrylic word from the Best Story Kit and some enamel dots. 

Was able to use a stamp to finish this one off. 

So happy to have this story captured from so many years ago!

 

Quirks

This layout was inspired by Ali Edwards Story Stamp for the theme of Habits. 

This was a fun one to look back on! My kids got a kick of the journaling. It was a reminder that sometimes documenting these little things in the moment are the best stories to look back on!

The supplies for this were from Felicity Jane. The tags were perfect homes for each child’s journaling and matched the papers from the same collection. 

 I love the look and feel of the Felicity Jane puffy alphas! Put many to use on this layout. 

Love how this came together and having these quirks 

captured.

First Days of School-Aaron

This layout was inspired by a Refresh Retreat challenge from May of last year. The challenge was to combine 9 or more versions of a similar style of photo to help visually tell a story. My son resent my graduated high school and I thought it would cool to get all of his first day of school photos on a layout!

I used Simple Scrapper sketch 717 and decided to put these plastic slide frames that have been in my stash a long time to good use. 

I struggled with using the sketch a bit, since all of my photos were vertical. But with some friends at an in person crop and moving things around quite a few times (which also meant reframing many photos) I finally came up with a composition that worked for me.

 

Used Jillibean Soup’s Alphabet Soup II collection for paper and die cuts that matched well with the stickers.

I had some stickers in my stash that had labels that fit on the slide frames perfectly and had the title piece to match. 

Love seeing these photos all together to see the growth year after year. 

Who What Where When Why

The layout I am sharing today was inspired by Ali Edwards’ Hello Story class for the lesson on Who What When Where and How. I used the digitals from the class to cut the circles to house my photos.

I used some diamonds from the pattern paper to create embellishments on the page.

Finished off the clusters with some enamel shapes.

 Despite having a ton more photos for this trip, I love this snapshot and having this documented!