Welcome to Adventure

Scrapbook Layout for ScrapbookNerd.com - Welcome to Adventure -

The best title for the beginning of a beautiful creative adventure with Scrapbook Nerd

Hello everyone,

I am excited to share my first layout as part of the designing team for Scrapbook Nerd (ScrapbookNerd.com).  I am very thankful -first and above all to God, and then Barb and Joy for taking a chance with me- for this opportunity to express some of the crazy ideas that are always floating in my head...

We all received Crate Paper's "Wonder" collection as our first kit.  This is such a beautiful collection with rich colors and beautiful patterns that can be easily used to document  memories.   This kit and this month's theme, "Welcoming" worked hand in hand to create this layout about my kids' first visit to my native country, Ecuador, last year.

I started by using a simple handwriting font  from the silhouette store to form my title, welcome.  Once I had it perforated by the machine, i hand embroidered the letters with orange thread.  I fussy cut the large title, and set it aside.

Creating a background for the layout

I had chosen papers that were rich in orange and green to mat and layer my black and white picture, and chose to create my background, on watercolor paper,  using Heidi Swapp's Color Shine in Mint and Coral.  I used the packaging method to obtain the watercolor effect and added splatters of the ink as well.

Texture is key in this layout

I wanted to add texture to the page, so I went ahead and used Tim Holtz's collection "Plus" stencil (that is the name) with a bit of Heidi Swapp's white Texture paste.   The dimension and texture this adds to the page is beautiful.

A close up of all the papers used in the layout.

I used at least 4 different papers to layer my picture,  I added tags (I love them), some of the stickers and bundles of thread  in between the layers,   It was all about adding dimension and interest to the page.

I enjoying creating little bundles of ephemera on my layouts

Once the title was placed right below the picture,  I constructed a little banner bundle with stickers and pieces of ephemera (I even cut the Crate Paper logo -shaped as a banner) and attach it to the top left corner of the page.  I chose to add my journal lines at the bottom of the title.  As a final touch I splatter some black ink , and called it done..

The final layout

I had so much fun creating this page, I hope you like it, as much as we do.  If you have any questions, just leave me a comment here, my instagram feed or at Scrapbook Nerd forum.  I will be happy to respond.  I also am attaching a list of all the  materials used (everything is available at ScrapbookNerd.com, but the embroidery thread, and water color paper)

See you soon.  :)

Materials Used:

Water color paper, Canson

Patterned Paper,  Wonder Collection,  Crate Paper

Stickers,  Wonder Collection, Crate Paper

Ephemera, Market Place Collection, Crate Paper

Heidi Swapp Color Shine in Mint and Coral

Plus Stencil, Tim Holtz Collection

White texture paste, Heidi Swapp collection

Black India Ink, Higgins

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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