Everyone has a story to tell, here's mine sprinkled with some creative projects along the way. Thank you for stopping by and I hope you come back again.
I was drawn to the sketch because of the three panels in the center. It was the perfect design for my one vertical 4x6 photo and long journaling plus my title. I actually used a 4x6 cut apart paper for my title. The stars already had some glitter to it so I didn't have to do anything more to create the texture on that block.
I rummaged through my scraps stash and found some papers to create my banner. I used the side of a square punch to create the pennant shape on the bottoms of the paper strips.
I also used my circle punch, scallop circle punch, and star punch to create my layered embellishment. I finished it off with some button and twine.
Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you have a great weekend.
This next page was based off of this month's sketch from the Stuck?! sketch blog
I love, love, love these photos of my little guy. He looked so comfortable and adorable at the same time. On this page, I pretty much stuck to the sketch and used a ton of scraps of paper for the layering pieces. I have been finding bits and pieces of "gems" in my scrap stash and I love how I can use them up in my latest pages.
I also went through my pocket letter goodies stash, which is basically the items that have been sent to me by my pocket letter pals like stickers, tags and other small embellishments. I had pulled them out of the plastic inserts and combines them in little containers. They are the perfect little accents to add to my page.
I had three owl stickers and I thought to use them as my visual triangle. The owl reminded me of night and sleep so I added it to this page.
I didn't do so well with my stamping the first time and tried really hard to match it perfectly on the second try but alas I didn't so well so you can see some shadowing. I am really going to invest in one of those stamping tool like precision press or Misti soon so I don't have to have this issue.
That's it. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to leave it in the comment section below.
I liked the block design as it gave me a chance to pull together some smaller papers that I probably would not have enough of if I had to use them for layering. I also liked how each box allowed me to "play" and add stickers over washi over accents and so forth.
I wanted my photos to stand out so I used some photo corners on both of my pictures.
I wanted a large title but since I only have blocks to work with, I laid my title on two lines. It's still readable. I also added a thin washi frame around the words.
I was rummaging through some of my pocket letter goodies and found the butterfly and the stick pin and thought to use it in this page.
This quote was a free printable from Scrapbook Generation that I printed off of a watercolor paper. I didn't do anything to the paper but instead punched out the circle and adhered over the layers of paper and washi strips.
Hi there friends. Today I have the rare opportunity to relax and not do the normal "adult" responsibilities I have to do such as homework. ;) So I am going to take this time (which I will break up in different pots) to share some of my recent scrapbook pages. Are you ready? Here's the first one...
I used two photos instead of the one on the sketch but did the layering similar to the sketch. Instead of adding a circle accent to the top left, I found this cute tent die in my stash and added that to reiterate the "camping" theme.
I stamped on two of the wood square accents. I love that stamping can give me a personalized accent to add to my page.
I stamped the word "family" with one of my fave script font stamps from Echo Park. I also used a hodge podge of letter stickers from Simple Stories. I've been trying to use up my stash lately and it feels good to mix and match some stickers together.
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Oh my goodness! I didn't realize that I haven't shared anything in almost a month. I'm not going to lie, this semester has been rough and tears have been shed, almost on a weekly basis. But scrapbooking is my therapy and although I haven't done it as much, I try to make some pages here and there.
That leads me straight to the jist of this post. If you have been following me, you know how I LOVE me some scrapbook sketches. They provide the perfect starting point for my pages. Well a few weeks ago, I started to think of this one particular sketch....
And then I thought....what if I use this sketch multiple times so that I can utilize it to it's fullest and at the same time crank pages faster than I would normally do. And that is how I was able to create the following three pages in one night. Awesome, right? Well here's a little video sharing my thoughts on each page and how they were inspired by the sketch above....
And here are photos of each page, along with close ups....
So there you have it. Thank you for stopping by. Again, if you were inspired by the sketch, please share it with me here or on my YouTube channel. I would love to see it.
If you would like to "save" the sketch that I made, all you do is right click on the image and save on your computer. You can also "pin" it to Pinterest for easy saving.
