What an Amazing Adventure

Last week I created a scrapbook layout about the amazing adventure Lara had when she had a flight in a Tiger Month last year. I created a 12" x 12" layout using five small photos.

I started with a sheet of 'cloud' paper from Echo Park's Sweet Summertime collection. The paper was trimmed to approx 11.5" square and matted onto a sheet of yellow paper from BasicGrey's Barista collection.

I die cut the word 'Adventure' from white cardstock using a cut file from the Silhouette Studio and backed this with various papers from the Simple Stories' Say Cheese III collection and matted it with black. My photos were matted on black cardstock and stuck around the edges of the layout and the backed word was then stuck to the centre of the layout on foam to give it some dimension.

I finished my title with some Simple Stories Sn@p letter stickers which were originally blue and I coloured black with a marker pen.

A couple of die cut paper planes were cut from white cardstock, backed with yellow patterned paper and used as embellishments. Wood Veneer planes from Studio Calico were added.

I searched my stash for any die cuts that were the right colour and fitted the theme and found some speech bubbles and a yellow square with a phrase. Stars punched from red paper and a puffy sticker camera were also added.

I finished my layout by machine stitching round the border and also adding journalling strips printed on my computer.

A Prickly Present

My daughter loves cactus plants. She received several as a gift one Christmas and has added to her collection since then. For her birthday last year her oldest brother gave her another cactus and I decided to create a layout of this.

I started with a red 12x12 Bazzill cardstock base and on this I matted a sheet of newsprint patterned paper from the Simple Stories: I Heart Summer collection, which I trimmed to approx 11.5" square. 

I layered various smaller pieces of patterned paper from Simple Stories and Echo Park beneath my photograph and also a piece of Cactus Print paper which I downloaded free form Stephanie Fizer Coleman's blog. It was perfect for my layout. All the layers were outlined in black pen.

I used foam Thickers for my title and scattered Studio Calico wood veneer stars.

In my stash I found a very old die cut from MME which said 'Too cute for words' which I added as a sub-title with a heart punched from the same green spot paper that I had layered my photo on.

*** Ignore that little bit of blue fluff by the star - no idea what it is 😊

My journalling strips were printed on the computer and the date was added with tiny alpha stickers. A round sticker with the word 'smile' (again very old and from my stash) finished the layout.