Be Yourself

Scrapbook Layout created for Scrapbook Nerd  - BE YOURSELF -

Hi there!


I am still wondering were October went, and how fast this year is flying!

There are still so many memories of my kids that need to be documented, but there are not enough hours in the day to do it!  But i keep on trying to squeeze time  for my memory keeping, and this time  i used it to create a project for Scrapbook Nerd all about my teenage son.

I fell in love with the new Pinkfresh Studio Boys Fort collection as soon as it was available.   The colors, and embellishments of the collection are ideal to document all those special men in your life.  For this page, I went for a watercolor background that will stand out in the contrast with the black/grey & White in the papers that frame the picture.  I simply layered  the paper strips (cut from the corner pieces of the papers)

The picture placed in the center of the page is nicely framed by the color in the background and all those fun pieces from the collection.   Those fabric banners can easily be transforned into flags by gluing a toothpick to the back of them.

All the fun embellishments come in handy when creating clusters  in the page.  The title for this page comes from the Mix 1 collection ( can never have enough embellishments).  After a few drop of white acrylic and black ink, here is final layout:

Love the look of this page (just wonder if a ruler would have helped to create straight lines for my journal)  and how easy it came together with a bit of watercolor and the entire collection.

Remember to stop by Scrapbook Nerd to check all the materials used in this page.  I am a comment away if you have questions on how this came together.

See you all soon!

Happy

Scrapbook Layout - Happy-

Part of the process for creating this layout

Well hello back!!

I don't like to throw out cut-outs especially when they form such a beautiful pattern, as the one from the Spin wheels cut file from the Cut Shoppe.

the residual from the cut-out of the spinwheel cut file

I had so many ideas as to what i wanted to do with this cut-outs, but first i temporarily glue them to a patterned paper so I can play around with some ideas.    I was inspired by all the spring colors showing around, so I used Heidi Swapp Color Shine to achieve a watercolor look on the spinwheels

I gesso the cut outs before adding the color shine.

Once the ink was dried, I drew a border inside each piece following the edge of the cut.  I fussy cut all the pieces, and started to form the pinwheels using the tiny attacher to held them together.
For the main layout mat I used the back of a Craft Smith patterned paper.  I gesso the page, and once dried used the same colors to create  a water color effect on the page.  I added splashes of the colorshine where i had planned to add the spin wheels.

a few black ink spots were also added to match the colors on the spin wheels

I am starting to document my niece's 8th birthday, so I printed one of the pictures in black and white, and backed/layered it with papers from the same collection.

I staggered the papers to make it look that they were flying along with the spin wheels

I created soft waves with the spin wheels. making sure that they did not end at the corner of the page.

the spin wheels follow the path created by the color shine splatters

To add some interest to the page, I ripped and folded the bottom edges of the page, and added pieces of the layering patterned papers.  The look just completed the page.

i went for simplicity on the page to highlight the picture and the spinwheels.

Finally I added my title and some journal lines.  I love this page (one of my favorites by far).

I hope you like it too, and re-purpose all the parts of a cut-out.

See you soon...

The completed layout

Materials used:

Cut file, Spin Wheels, the Cut Shoppe

Color Shine in rose, butter, mustard and lime green, Heidi Swapp collection

Patterned paper, Sherbet Dream collection, Craft Smith, Michaels

Title,  Becky Higgins Project life kit ephemera