I'm here working on number 26 of my 35 Page Layout Challenge 2019 (and the lessons I learn). I will try to link up to where you can purchase the items I used just in case you see anything you might like to try!
Today I'm working on "IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE". This one I didn't use many embellishments. Some times I use a tone and some times I hardly use any at all. It depends on which way the layout starts going (or the wind is blowing, which ever). I mean I can pull a LOT of stuff from my drawers and only end up using a few things like I did with this one. I wanted the paper to do all of the talking with this layout!
I started out using a pad from the HOT BUYS from Michael's. HOT BUYS are awesome and they have them every quarter it seems. You can get beautiful pads for $5.99, regularly $19.99! I kick myself because this one I L-O-V-E and I only bought one. I find that going back during another HOT BUY, you don't find the same pads 😒. So we will use this as LESSON #1, look through those HOT BUY pads you like and take a good look. Shop around and then re-look. If you really like it...BUY MORE THAN ONE!
Ok, moving on...I started with one of the 12x12 sheets that has this amazing floral print at the bottom. Now, for me to say amazing and floral in the same sentence you have to know it is gorgeous because I'm really not a flowery type of girl. I see all these amazing flowery layouts on IG but I just can't seem to get excited about doing one. Maybe one day I will but not today.
This one was the perfect color, almost a paper bag brown with white flowers and stems at the bottom that was just enough to make it gorgeous! There was another page in the pad that is a blueish grey that I had left over from another layout I did. I did the tear technique (making sure I left it longer at the bottom so it peaked out. I took another piece of scrap paper in yellow, and cut it at an angle and glued it to the top of it.
This pad also had 2 pages of cards (think, project life type cards) in the same hues as the paper. I used one that had gold flakes in it to layer on top of the yellow card stock and then another I trimmed to layer on top of that one and used it as my Title. So here is LESSON #2 for this layout, you don't always have to use alphas as your TITLE. Here I am using a card that already had the saying I wanted. You can use a sticker, project life card, a stamp...get creative!
I decided to do some gold splatters to bring out some of the gold in that first card. I used Shimmerz VIBEZ in GLORIOUS DAY. It really matched up well and who doesn't love a good shimmer!
I cut 3 flags in the blue/grey and one in yellow and adhered them under the 1st layer. I added 2 more smaller flags in a white/grey color for some pop and to bring in the white from those flowers below.
I have this really awesome butterfly bunch so I punched out some butterflies trying to get some of the gold flakes from the paper in order to bring in some more of the gold accent. I placed them where I wanted them and used tacky glue to glue them down. They give a 3 dimensional look to the page that I liked.
I added a wood sticker that says Happy Days Are Here (that's an old piece from my stash) and then added a gold foil flag and stamped TODAY on it and placed it by the photo. On the photo itself, I backed it with the same papers I used on the other side, leaving a little over hang at the bottom using the tear technique again and added the LIFE IS SHORT, LIVE IT chipboard sticker from American Crafts - Thickers line, Escape The Ordinary by Vickie Boutin and added 2 butterflies.Above the photo I added another card from the pad and backed it with a gold foil card and a lighter card on the other side to bring out those lighter colors.
I felt like it needed a little something else so I added stamped dots in different sizes. Lastly, I added a flair from Scrappin Happy Studios that says "US".
Well, there you have it...number 26 of my 365 layout challenge for 2019. Thanks for following along on my journey of 365 scrapbook page challenge that I am doing, and reading about the lessons I'm learning along the way!
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Kimberly
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