Whole- Pieces of my day

This layout was featured in Spark Magazine issue #101 when I was a featured designer for Simple Scrapper for the month of October 2023.

This layout was inspired by Ali Edwards Story Stamp for the theme of pieces. I was encouraged by the class material to document a day in the life.

Because I had taken so many photos from the day that I wanted to include, I found a sketch that used photo strips. 

The Story Stamp included a set of pie charted circles that I used to embellish my page with. I struggled with how I wanted to color them and went with more jewel toned colored pencils to match the feel of the pattern papers I used from Jen Hadfield.

The title piece was created using a set of label dies from Stampin' Up!

Love how this layout captures so many little moments of our right now and have them all together to tell the story of our day.

So grateful for the opportunity to be a guest designer and have my layouts shared with so many! 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Aaron's Faves

This layout was inspired by Ali Edwards' Hello Story class. The story structure for this one was Opposites.

I decided to use the annual story of my son's favorites this year as well as his least favorites for a twist this year.

The background was created by stamping and heat embossing the background circles. Some of the circles are from Laura Wonsik's collaboration with Ali Edwards and the others are a set from Studio Calico. 

I created the full circle using a stitch stamp set from Elle's Studio that was a good diameter and masked the other half. 

I designed myself in a corner with the black paper, because journaling in white wasn't going to easily happen. I have no luck with the white journaling pens. So instead I printed the journaling and reversed the black on white for the white side. 

This was a lot of work, but love how it turned out and to use so many of the untouched stamps in my stash!

 

When Tiffany Met Tom

This layout was inspired by the Hello Story class by Ali Edwards. The lesson was on Mathematics, and while this layout doesn't overtly look like it works, the journaling was created by subtracting words from a book page. 

 

My supplies were inspired by a challenge over at Simple Scrapper, to do a monochromatic layout with the background being black and white. Since the book paper was cream, I opted for a cream and black pattern. Thought the Maggie Holmes music paper fit the theme for this story well.

I struggled with picking a story to tell with this technique, but when I found the book paper and started finding a story within the words, I knew it had to be used to tell how my husband and I met.

I found some Story Kit pieces of chipboard from the Begin Story Kit and Time Story Kit that worked well as well as the First Story Stamp.

Seek

Sharing a layout I created that was inspired by Ali Edwards' Story Stamp by the theme of Seek.

I went a completely different direction than the color scheme of the kit for this one because of the red in my daughter's jacket. 

The background paper is one of Vicki Boutin's mixed media papers. The Journaling cards are from Shimelle but only one was used as a card. The others I cut into circles. The polka dot has an embossed treatment, which I love the added texture of.

Used quite a few of the stamps from the Seek set. 8 to be exact! Love that the camera was made up of two; the outline and a stamp to fill it in with color.

The paper ribbon down the center was something that I picked up from my friend Tami and love the texture and dimension that it gives the layout. 

Love how this one turned out. Thanks for looking!

 

Wander

This layout was also featured in Simple Scrapper's Spark magazine. This layout was inspired by Ali Edwards' Story Stamp for the theme of Wander.

Most of the supplies used on this layout are from Elle's Studio. The leave die cuts are from Altenew's Leaf Mix die set.

Managed to fit all of my words for this story on this journaling card. Loved the title and subtitle work with the stamps on this one.

I have quite a collection of Elle's Studio die cuts and labels. Used some of the stamps to give homes to the stamp phrases.

Loved the chance to use some of the little phrase stamps on little bits around the layout like the blue heart here.

Love how everything came together on this layout! Thanks for looking!

 

Ally- Newborn

Sharing a layout I created as the featured artist for October for Simple Scrapper. This layout was featured in Simple Scrapper’s Spark magazine. 

Most of the products I used here are from Echo Park’s Baby Girl collection. 

For the title I cut an Ali Edwards digital stamp. The lace I created using a Tim Holtz / Sizzix die.

The swirl is another Tim Holtz/ Sizzix die paired with embellishments from the collection. Used an Ali Edwards stamp for a tone on tone look. The puffy heat is from an exclusive from scrapbook.com by Pink Fresh.

Repeated similar elements in the upper cluster.

Was honored to be featured in Spark magazine! Thanks for looking!

 

Community

This layout was inspired by the Community Story Stamp by Ali Edwards. 

The journaling was something I had written for Simple Scrapper after I was asked to be their first Member Profile within the membership. 

The post card image of the old Simple Scrapper logo was from a kit I got from Everyday Explorers that was a collaboration with Simple Scrapper.

The supplies from this layout are from Felicity Jane. I managed to pick up a handful of their products before they closed up their shop.

I was in a stash bashing mood and got into my button stash to locate a few to embellish this layout instead of my go-to enamel dots. Love the stitching detail it adds. 

The leave die cuts are from an old Sizzix die from my stash.