Funny Little Story

This layout was inspired by the Fun Story Stamp by Ali Edwards. FUNNY enough though, the laugh story kit came out before I created the layout and so I used some stamps from both sets to tell this story.

I had recorded this story in 2017 the day it happened, knowing I wanted to create a layout about it later. I am definitely a document now create later kind of gal. 

It was conversation that my daughter and husband had and when I saw the speech bubble stamps on the Laugh kit, I thought it would be a perfect way to document the story. 

When putting this layout together, Ally wanted to help, and seeing it was a page about her, I let her help pick the supplies and colors of the layout. She selected a Basic Grey pattern for the back ground and then helped me find coordinating Distress Ink colors to stamp with. 

Created my own pattern paper on the left side of the layout using a mix of stamps from both the fun and laugh story stamp sets as well as some emojis from a Hip Kit stamp, I believe.

I created the journaling in PSE, using the digital stamps of the speech bubbles to help me know how the placement was going to work. Initially I was going to print the speech bubbles separate and layer on the background, but I printed incorrectly and was going to have to restamp them all and decided just to do it as one.

Used a lot of stamps on this layout. Used some for the title, the subtitle, the tag embellishments as well as the scalloped strip!

Loved how this turned out and how many of my stamps I played with and that got used on this layout! Also excited that I got this story told!

 

Lights, Camera, Action

I struggle with some of the Story Class themes from Ali Edwards when it comes to stories I want to tell. I struggled with Bloom and again with Action. I always stretch myself to find at least one story to tell, and love where it leads me. 

The layout that was inspired by the Action Story Stamp was one of those stories. 

I was inspired by "Lights, Camera, Action" as a title and went from there. It sparked the story of Maddie's favorite types of toys and how they are all props essentially to the shows and movies that she likes to watch.

I decided to do a lay flat photo of the toys that she is currently playing with and pair it with small 2x2 photos of her over the years playing with those toys. 

 

With my stash of products to use, I struggled to find a starting place. I even asked my friends at Simple Scrapper for a jumping off place. 

Ultimately the arrow on the stamp set inspired me to look for arrow patterns. I remembered one from a Studio Calico collection I had but I didn't use the one I had thought of because I found this rainbow arrow instead. I thought it pulled all of the bright colors from the toys.

Along the arrow theme, I also found some acetate arrows as well as some chipboard silver foiled arrows that paired nicely with the patterned paper I had found. I attached the acetate arrows with my Tim Holtz tiny attacher.

I don't have a wide format printer to print on 12x12 paper, so I printed on an 8.5x12 page and pieced it with the pattern on the right to stretch it to 12x12.

I am working my way through Ali Edwards' Type class right now as well, and the title work was inspired by the stacked type assignment. I used Kelly Purkey alphabet stickers along with the action stamp from the Action Story Stamp.

To go with the film themed title, I found a Teresa Collins stamp in my stash with the film strip. I stamped it on vellum and cut it out and layered it around the layout. 

In my main 3 areas of embellishment, I also added a stamped sentiment from the Story Stamp in Ali's Pendleton ink as well as some Heidi Swapp's Tinsel Color Shine splatters.

 Love the end result of this! Love what stories I can tell when I am inspired by Ali's Story themes. 

Thanks for checking out this layout!

 

Love Blooming Together

 Here is a layout that was inspired by the Story Class and Story Stamp for the theme of Bloom from Ali Edwards. 

The story came about from the stamp "Love Blooming Together". This last May my husband and I hit our 25 dating anniversary. We have done a lot of growing together!

I was inspired by this sketch from PageMaps.

The background paper and journaling cards are from Maggie Holmes, her first collection. The tickets are from Tim Holtz. 

The stamps were from the Bloom Story Stamp. I created a patterned with the sentiment on a journaling card. I then stamped again on white yardstick and popped it up for the title.

The flower die cut, I created on my Silhouette Cameo. The digital stamps come with the physical stamps, so I took the flower stamp and removed the center and then added the love from the other stamp and had it cut it from the center. I originally tried cutting the whole stamp sentiment but the letters were so small, it wouldn't cut cleanly on the size flower I wanted to use.

I also used the stamps to create a patterned paper from a piece of green Bazzil card stock and some of Ali Edwards craft inks.

I used a bit of velvet rickrack ribbon to replicate the seam on the sketch, added a few staples with my Tiny Attacher, and added a label to bring in a bit of white to that corner of the layout swell as the date and called this one done. 

Thanks for looking!

Perfect Time for Change

 The layout I am sharing here today was inspired by the Story Stamp from Ali Edwards with the theme Change.  

My oldest daughter got a new room when I was expecting and this layout documents that change.

Shimelle's Sparkle City collection had the perfect color of purple to match the color my daughter chose to paint her room. I used papers from the paper pad.

I used the stamps from Ali Edwards' Story Stamp for the change theme as well as the transition theme, that had come out after that, since some of the stamps also worked well for this layout as well.

I used the sketch from Page Maps found here.

I used Ali Edwards Deschutes ink for the stamping. I had a planner sticker book that I got the astric and banner stickers from.

I am currently taking Ali Edwards’ Type class (self-paced) and used some of the things I learned, contrast, in creating this title.

Thanks for stopping by. Sharing another layout soon!

May 2020 By the Numbers

There hasn’t been much activity here on my blog. I have been primarily focused on my December Daily for 2020, as well as the OLW project and some digital layouts.  I also had a big clean out of the memorabilia in my home, and have been journaling a lot as well.

Realized during a clean up that I never shared this layout I made as part of 20 projects in 2020 class from last year. For May Everyday I kept tally of an assortment of things. I created this layout to share what I kept track of. 

The foundation of this layout is made on a Vicki Boutin mixed media background. I love the look of mixed media but have yet branched out to try making my own. Her paper pads of these designs are a great way to get the look without the mess.

I used two alphabet stamps with the same font from Close to my Heart. The stamping was very therapeutic. I also went through my Thickers and other letter stickers to find numbers that would work. 

I used a stamp from Ali Edwards and another from Kerri Bradford for the title. Love how this turned out.

Getting back to layouts and wrapping up my December Daily so should have more to share soon. Thanks for stopping by. 

Robot Love

This is another layout that was laying around incomplete for quite a while, but because of focusing on these types of layouts for my Finishing Project with Simple Scrapper, I was able to get this one done!

This layout was a very modified version of a page kit designed by Just Kitting. It was originally a two page design, but with the photos I had and didn't have much to say, it didn't make sense to complete it that way.

Once I figured out what I was going to say, I typed it up, printed it out and cut into strips. 

Love how this one turned out and happy to have another layout finished!

 

Having a Blast!

Here is another Page in Progress. It is also another Disneyland layout as well as another kit from Just Kitting.

Love the dark background on this one since the ride is dark with pops of bright neon colors.

That paper piecing is just awesome as well!

Love that I am finally getting the words on these layouts and able to put them into my albums! Thanks for looking!