Through Aaron’s lens

Here is another layout that I have had in the works for quite a long time! This layout is based on the Lens Story Stamp from Ali Edwards.

I apologize for the quality of photos. I struggled with the lighting when taking these. Being a 2 page, made it even more difficult.

For this layout I used Shimelle's Box of Crayon's project pad to for the base of this layout. I then added the Tim Holtz metal number clips to label the photos my son took for this project.

I am trying to do some stash busting, especially with my 3x4 cards, so I dove into those to find some for my journaling as well as for an embellishment cluster. 

I stamped from many of my Ali Edwards' stamp sets, not just the Lens set. I know the "what I see" was from a Technique Tuesday set from my stash, and the "stuff I love" is from the Stuff stamp set.

The title cluster uses fussy cut cameras from Box of Crayons, stickers from the sticker folder that match, some enamel dots and a flair from my stash.

Love it when I can get multiple stamps on any given page, to justify my ever growing number of stamps! Thanks for stopping by!

Brave

This layout was inspired by Ali Edwards' Brave story stamp.

I used Shimelle's Glitter Girl project pad and stickers from her AC sticker book to create most of the elements on this page.

Featured many of the stamps in this set to create the page. I created the title as well as the embellishment circle elements. I fussy cut some florals from one of the patterned papers to embellish the page.

This heart stamp was a perfect description of my little girl!

Dove in my stash and found a few odds and ends like the decorative paper clip and yellow tag. Sprinkled some Heart enamel shapes and called this one done!

 Really love when I get stories like this recorded and love how the design turned out too! Thanks for looking!

Hello Adventure

This year I am all about finishing. Still have a pile of layouts that need to be finished, even after tackling it last fall and making great headway on it. I still have around 25 in the pile to finish!

Here is one of those layouts I finally finished. The base paper was part of a really old kit from a Disney class I took. I fit the stamping on the background as part of that class. Essentially this started as a base page. I found it in my Disney stash and paired it with a hilarious photo of my son in front of an Indiana Jones photo spot.

I couldn't figure out how I wanted to embellish or title this layout. I went on Pinterest in search of Indiana Jones quotes for a title. I found one, and it wound up looking like a 3x4 card embellishment, so I went back to the drawing board.

I decided to repeat the metallic look of the ball from the photo and die cut some metallic paper with some Tim Holtz dies and layered with some metal embellishments from him as well.

I then paired it with some matching metallic Thickers, one alpha to spell adventure and the hello came from a baby boy collection.

Stamped the date with a roller date stamp and called this one done!

Thanks for looking! Have a few more pages in the works to share here, so come back soon!

You Don’t Scare Me

Here is another layout that was designed by my friend Tami. Her version of the layout is here.

This layout uses some Quikcutz dies that are the retro shapes. I thought this layout, its' colors, and design worked really well with these photos of Sulley and my mom and me.

I also found some Heidi Swapp acetate words that worked well with the photos and added just enough to the clusters.

I also had some plastic pieces that I had found at Tuesday Morning that were the same colors as the layout and added just the right finishing touch.

Created a bit of pho-zigzag stitching around some of the patterned paper for added detail. Love how this one turned out! Love these photos. He has been one of my favorite characters to meet.

Thanks for looking! Hope to share more here soon!

Wishing Well and Grotto

As I was going through my pile of unfinished layouts, I realized that quite a few were Disney layouts. With my limited time in scrapbooking, I found the Disney ones lower on my priority list. As I go back to finish them, I am finding there is great joy in the making and looking at these pages!

The layout I am sharing today is another page designed by Tami Bastaains.




This layout gave me fits about feeling finished. Adding the ribbon and flowers helped, as well as the block of journaling. I also added &Grotto to the title more recently. Luckily I managed to find the same Sizzix alphabet font to cut as well as scraps of the cardstock I used to create the original.

Today I probably would have created the title differently, but this is good enough and lovely and tells the story. Glad to have another page in progress complete and in my albums!

Thanks for looking! Have a few more Disney pages that were in progress to share soon, so stop back by to check them out!

4-Alarm Kid

Another layout in progress that has finally been completed to share with you today!

The base layout was designed by Tami Bastiaans. Here is her completed layout with the same foundation.

To embellish this layout, I dipped into my stash of wood veneer. Found the asterisks, from Project Life, I believe and the bigger pieces from Elle's Studio.

My son, in helping me limit my choices, selected the Sizzix Font for the title and helped me cut it out. 

Sprinkled some Mickey heads punched from red cardstock to cluster with the wood veneer.

For this layout, I opted to get my Cricut out and create the Pluto and the fire hydrant. This only happens on extremely rare occasions, me feeling the need to use my Cricut. I happened to have that complete in the second phase of this layout, and have no idea how long ago. 

For the journaling, I repeated the shape from the sign on the left hand page by hand cutting the shape and embellishing with eyelets.

Love to have this join the other completed pages in my Disneyland albums. Funny how things I have now and are into using are making it on these older layouts that would not have had the added touches back then.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope to have a few more pages to share soon!

Friends

When taking Stacy Julian's class, Inspired Scrapbooking at Big Picture classes, one month's inspiration was the people in your life that have made an impact. Then when Ali Edward's Story Stamp theme was Bond, I came back to the idea of the story of my friend Tami to create the journaling. 

Most of the products I chose for this were papers and ephemera from an old line from Amy Tangerine. Paired it with her sticker book as well. The friends title is an acrylic piece from a SCT Sampler kit.

Did some stamping using Ali Edwards Story Stamp for Bond. You can see it in use on the US circle on the pull out journaling, the "friends bonding" phrase under the second photo, the phrase in the upper right circle die cut, and just right of the blue strip near the bottom. Love when I can sprinkle the stamps around the page!

Of course, I had too much to say to comfortably fit my journaling on the layout with the ability to play with the design and products, so I opted to create this pull out. I went back and forth if I should create some smaller page using a 4x12 page protector (fuse one) or not. I wasn't sure what would be the next layout in the album and I didn't want to worry about the other side being blank or moving it around in the album as I completed more pages, so I tucked it behind the layout in the page protector.

So glad to have this story written. So glad to have this layout added to my albums! 

Hope to share more layouts with you soon. My priority this January will be to complete (start too!) 2019's December Daily so my focus will not be on layouts. Not sure if I will have much to share with the exception of some pages in progress I have managed to complete. 

Happy New Year!