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
Happy Sunday evening my scrappy friends. I'm excited to share a layout today that I created using a some of my stash. Now, let me tell you about my stash. I have a problem. I have a **VERY BIG** paper hoarding problem...ahem. And I know I'm not the only one, but when the copyright year on the barcode strip of your paper is from 4 years ago, you know it's bad. I have paper even older than that, but I digress!
Today I'm using a sketch from Let's Get Sketchy February Week 1. In addition, I'm doing the Scrap Our Stash February stash challenge for WASHI -> my layout has: wooden embellishment, alpha stickers, splatter stamp, Hello Fall paper, and ink.
This was such a FUN layout for me - I got to meet my very favorite characters in the whole world last Thanksgiving! But with all the colors in the photo - including my purple shirt - I was having a tough time figuring out what papers to use. Enter Little Yellow Bicycle's "Hello Fall" from 2011!
I only had about 5 sheets of paper from this collection and none of the embellishments. So I decided to pull out my Silhouette PixScan mat to cut the flower/doilies from the middle of one of the papers. If you don't have this mat, I highly recommend you get one! It lets you cut out patterns, stamped images, and more. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind fussycutting sometimes, but this can be a real time saver -- and paper saver, too! (And if you are looking for help calibrating your mat, I have a tutorial that may help.)
To start, I decided to flip the sketch. My base paper has a built-in green strip, but I trimmed a strip from the leaf paper to adhere next to it on the right side of my layout. Then I sewed along the left side of the strip.
I matted my photo with the green side of one of the papers, inked the edge in dark purple, then matted it again with the orange side of one of the papers (also inked). I included a tab to highlight the date. Then I included an embellishment cluster below the photo in line with the sketch.
I wanted to stamp the splatters using the Tim Holtz Spills & Splatters stamp (I trimmed the splatter area next to the cup rings to use separately). So I put the photo area and the flower/doilies where I knew they'd be and stamped near each doily. Then I adhered everything to my page to create my title. I chose Simple Stories Sn@p! Studio Typeset alphas for "acre" and "woods" and stamped "hundred and "#friends" using my oldie-but-goodie Close To My Heart Solo Alpha sets. I cut "me & my" using my cameo, and popped up the ampersand using 3D tape (hence the pesky shadow...one of these days I will learn how to fix this using Photoshop Elements!). The doily on the left is also popped up.
After adding some gems, I finished the layout with a small journaling spot to show how special Pooh Bear and Tigger are to me.
I hope you enjoyed my layout today, and I hope it inspires you to reach into your stash - you just may not know what serendipitous goodies you will find!
In the famous words of Tigger, "T.T.F.N.....ta ta for now!
Majken
