Details- Ally and Rosie’s purses

The layout I am sharing today was inspired by Ali Edwards Story Stamp for the theme of Details. After consuming the class content I was inspired to do a flat lay of my girls’ new purses and what were currently in them. 

When selecting a sketch, I remembered seeing on in the Square One classroom that would work perfectly with the number of photos and story, and used Simple Scrapper Sketch number 315.

When going through my old SCT Sampler stash I ran across the perfect collection for this from My Mind’s Eye Cool Vibes that matched mood and color for my story. Used the 6x6 papers to make layers under the photos and used the die cuts to embellish.

I remembered seeing the “details” Vicki Boutin Thickers in my stash and thought it would work for this layout as well. 

Finished it off with a few stamped sentiments from the Story Stamp and used the enamel dots that were in the Sampler Kit. 

Love using up things from my stash and getting another fun story told about right now!
 

You’re Invited

The layout I am sharing today was inspired by the Ali Edwards Story Stamp for the theme of Savor as well as Shimelle’s Use What You Buy Class for Stickers. 
 

The lesson challenge was to use a tuck away border. I used so many stickers! Some from Shimelle’s Box of Crayons sticker folder, some American Craft sticker books and Maggie Holmes gold foil stickers. 

The layers of paper and journal card were from a SCT Sampler in my stash. 

Love sneaking in some of the stamps in with the stickers and in the red pattern as well. 

This was a fun one to make! Thanks for stopping by!

I Hope For You

 

The layout I am sharing today was inspired by Ali Edwards Hope Story Stamp as well as the first session of Square One class at Simple Scrapper. The class challenge was to create space for journaling and I used the rays on this sketch to house my journaling. 

I found a patterned paper that had a radial pattern on it which limited the choices of papers I needed to make to create this layout!   

I used the stamp set to create the title as well as a sentiment for the tab at the bottom. 

The star stickers were from Ali Edwards and matched the colors perfectly!

So happy with how this layout turned out and that some of my hopes have already come to fruition! 

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Family Tree

The layout I am sharing today was inspired by the Family Story Stamp by Ali Edwards. The stamp “sometimes family is just hard” resonated with me to tell the story of my complicated family tree. 
 

The background paper is one from a Jen Hadfield collection. I used a leaf die and manually cut all of the leaves. I inked the leaves based on parentage but not sure how noticeable it was in the end. 

I hand stitched the lines to connect the leaves with embroidery floss. 

I used an acrylic word from a SCT Sampler kit and letter stickers from my stash. 

I was hesitant in adding the cluster at the top and the right side of the journaling, that it would be too much, but I really wanted to use the stamps and I am happy with the result. 

Names were added to the leaves after I took this picture for privacy and I am sure someone would be mad on my choices on who and how to include this information. 

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Fabric- Flowergirl dress

The layout I am sharing today was inspired by Ali Edwards Fabric Story Stamp. This tells the story of how the flower girl dress for my wedding came about. 

The background for this layout was a piece of card stock with holes that I used to stitch through with ribbon and ended with bows. 

I managed to sneak a few pieces of memorabilia on to this layout. The flowers are made from remnants of the same fabric as used for the dress. I used fabric stabilizer and die cut  using the Tim Holtz tattered flowers dies. 

The other memorabilia on the page were images of the pattern used in making the dress. 

Used a SCT Sampler for the products used on the page. 

Really happy with how this came together!

New Smile

This layout was inspired by the Old/New Story Stamp by Ali Edwards. My daughter got her braces off and I thought it would be cool to see the transformation of her smile throughout the process.

Working my way through the Square One class at Simple Scrapper and this used sketch #310. I used prompt 5 to modify the layout. I modified the background by adding a few more layers in the middle as well as the border strip at the bottom. The layout felt a bit top heavy without the detail at the bottom.

I used Shimelle's Reasons to Smile collection, stickers from her Main Character Energy as well as an old Elle's Studio card that I used for the sentiment at the top of the page. 

I used the Story Stamp to create the half circles on the layouts. Labeled the date on all of the photos.

Layered papers under the feature photo, the “after shot” to give it more prominence on the page. 

The acrylic word was from an SCT Sampler kit from Freckled Fawn that I paired with the stamped word from the stamp set that nestled perfectly on top.

This was fun to make and love the result!

 

Corner of Hope

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

While I am participating in the Square One class at Simple Scrapper, I was challenged to use a Simple Scrapper sketch and modify it to suit my story. I chose sketch 135 and used Prompt 2 to repurpose spaces on my layout. I switched the space for the title with the space for the journaling.

Lately I have been mindful of the sketches I have been selecting to allow me to use some of my SCT Sampler kits in my stash. The sampler kits came with 6x6 papers, so sketches like this one allow for many smaller pieces of patterned paper and get these kits used up. 

I selected sampler pieces from this Simple Stories I am collection because of the "Bloom baby, bloom" die cut sentiment, as it went perfectly with my story. It also contained other sticker sentiments and labels that would allow me places to use the Story stamps.

The sketch does not use a paper stack with the photo, but I thought it would be a fun opportunity to repeat the papers used at the top.

The title was created using some puffy alphas from my stash paired with the stamp.

On the sketch there was a subtle circle pattern on the background. After finishing up Shimelle's Use What You Buy class stencil addition, I was inspired to pull out an old Studio Calico stencil from my stash and with some Picket Fence Distress Ink, create a similar effect. I had never stenciled with the white on patterned paper, so I was unsure how it would turn out, but I was happy with the effect. 

Really enjoyed using this sketch and making it my own. It helped me create a layout I am really happy with. 

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