I blinked and half of August was GONE. Not sure where it went...if you find it, can you please let me know?? My daughter starts 7th grade -- 7th GRADE!!! Yikes! -- and my son begins his adventure in Kindergarten in one short week.
So...it was extra wonderful to find and scrap the photo of me with them over 5 years ago that I'm about to share with you.
I purposely left a lot of white space on this layout...every time I tried adding something, it just cluttered it and didn't work. This layout is based on a sketch by Brenshevia with Let's Get Sketchy:
I started with a base of textured white cardstock and chose the Basic Grey RSVP collection to bring in the purple, pink, and yellow we are wearing in the photo. I love this paper...but I'm super-biased towards purple. It's my happy color!!
I chose the papers that would trim the slanted header first, and then I planned out the papers to mat my photo. I adhered the header papers first (flipped from the sketch) and included a sewn embellishment to top it (the banner is from the RSVP collection and the scalloped one with the 3D heart I made myself):
Once I had the header down, I put the photo mat papers down and double-sewed around the edges with purple thread. I matted my photo with textured white cardstock and adhered my photo over the sewn mat.
I decided to add some banners around my photo to add some dimension. Finally, I created my title using Basic Grey stickers for the "so" and my Cameo for the "loved". I used the Mama Elephant Inline Letters dies for the "VERY". I wanted "VERY" to have dimension as well, so I die cut 4 "VERY"s in white cardstock and glued them together to create a chipboard look. Then I cut the VERY using the dark green paper from RSVP and glued it on top.
And then I added my journaling, a little heart, and a few gems!
I hope you liked this layout and get a chance to create based on this sketch...if you do, I'd love you to share it with me in the comments.
Have a great week! Chocolate hugs,
Majken
I absolutely adore this layout. Super fun title!
ReplyDeleteGreat job with the sketch! Thank you for joining us at LGS!
ReplyDeleteGreat page and lovely detail!!! LOVE the title :-)
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Love your take on the sketch. Great choice of papers and picture. Thank you for joining us at LGS. PS love the title of your blog
ReplyDeleteSweet photo and pretty page! Thanks for joining us at LGS :)
ReplyDeleteLoving your heart embellishment. Thanks for playing along with us at LGS!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful page! Thanks for joining us @ LGS!
ReplyDeleteoh, beautiful photo, color choices too. I like how you flipped the sketch. Thanks for joining our challenge at LGS
ReplyDeleteBeautiful page and picture! Thank you for playing along with us at LGS!
ReplyDeleteSweet LO - Luv all the layers and STITCHING!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for playing along at Let's Get Sketchy
Great Page. Wonderful work. Thanks for playing at LGS. Love the layers! Just Scrumptious.
ReplyDeleteSweet sweet page. Thank you so much for playing along with us at LGS!
ReplyDeleteSweet page! I love finding older photos of my kids that haven't been scrapped yet. Thanks for playing along at LGS!
ReplyDeleteSo many inspiring details! Adore your style!
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