Hello out there in scrappy land! Today I'm digging in to a new stash of Jillibean Soup Healthy Hello. It's got great colors for girls, but I'm using it for a boy layout following along with Scrap Our Stash's April sketch + 3. I used Jillibean Soup, Kraft paper, and lined paper for my three choices. Isn't my little man handsome? He crinkles his nose up at pink but loved the layout when I showed him! I think the blue really balances it out.
I loved the sketch as soon as I saw it. I took Just Nick's Scribble Circle Background and trimmed the top left circle from the full background, then enlarged it to cut out. Then I machine stitched some wonky circles over the circle in dark blue thread. It's fun to let the sewing machine go fast and crazy!
Speaking of crazy, I decided the small flowers needed to be fussycut so I could include on my layout. I trimmed the flower journal card to pair with my photo. I matted it and then trimmed a smaller piece of the lined paper journal card to stash behind. I loved layering the flowers and stickers like the "awesome you" tab sticker. Isn't the arrow paper fun?!
Here's the embellishment area on the bottom right of the layout. I adore that "Herbed Hola" paper with the confetti circles! I also used an arrow sticker and some word stickers, then added more fussycut flowers and some enamel dots.
Here's a close-up of the journal area:
For the title, I used some brown Thickers to go with the kraft paper as well as the blue alpha stickers from the collection.
One more close up of the fussycut flowers (don't they look pretty with the bluebonnet?) and enamel dots.
Here's a look at the sketch:
Fun sketch and super fun collection! I hope you take a stab at the sketch and that I've inspired you to use your pink on a boy layout.
Have a super week!
Majken
Hi scrappy friends! So glad you are here. I'm popping back this month to share a new layout using a fun paper strip basketweave technique. I actually woke up one morning with the idea in my head - but I'm not sure if I was dreaming about scrapbooking or something else!? In any case, I came up with this layout for the Scrap Our Stash January Book Inspired Stash Challenge #34 and decided to use it.
My inspiration from the book is the overall "sketch" from the book cover layout - you can see the curve of the snow from the book, the photo is placed where the Cat in the Hat stands, the title placement, and the journaling placement where the author is listed. Fun! Plus, this Fancy Pants Happy Place collection makes me smile. :)
I started by choosing two papers from the collection to include as my base. I used my trusty Cameo to cut both papers along the curve I created in the software. I merged them together on a base white cardstock, put some paint spatters on the dark cardstock, and sewed along the seam.
I then focused on the basketweave mat for my photo. I cut many 1/2" strips of multiple papers from the collection and started weaving. It's a bit unwieldy when you first start, but once you have three strips together, it stays nicely. When it got large enough to hold the photo while also leaving a nice border to show the basketweave, I glued the edges over to the back.
After that, the rest came together quickly! For the title, I was inspired by one of the phrases on the My Happy paper "Reach for a smile" - I used the Happy Place letters and found some old My Minds Eye phrase stickers to complete the first part of the title (I had to smile at my luck to find all three words I needed!). I outlined the words with a black pen to help them work with the Happy Place letters.
I put a few of my leftover strips to work as embellishment, and I created a chipboard heart using the My Happy paper and used a yellow Wink of Stella marker to highlight the word "joy".
I sprinkled some puffy stickers from the collection and cut some custom plus signs to pop up using 3D foam tape. And then did a spot of journaling between the plus signs.
I'm digging all the positive signs - goes with optimism and happiness. :)
Have you used the Happy Place collection? I hope you are inspired to grab some and make pretty papercrafts!
Have a great week!
Majken
