Are you enjoying yourself this month on the blog? I hope so! I love scrapbooking “with” you all! I hope you’re taking the challenge to let yourself make the mess and take the time. Just for a limited time period, go ahead and scrapbook all you want without guilt.
At the end of the month or week or whatever amount of time you think you can manage, clean it all up, stack up those finished pages in a big pile, and be proud of yourself!
Today’s inspiration layout is the second class kit from Scrapbooking Summer School!
This layout has a great burlap background paper and lots of neutrals layered on top for texture. The cool blue-gray color is the new Cloud Cover In Color from Stampin’ Up! It’s gorgeous, but HARD to photograph! I’m still trying to find the best place to photograph in my new studio location, sorry about that.
The photograph below is the best one of the actual colors of this spread.
I had so much fun with the sheet of laser-cut cardstock sticker elements from the Make A Memory kit on this layout. They saved me a TON of work die-cutting! That has always been a problem in the past when I make page kits on this quantity.
A tip I shared on this page is how to bring emphasis to a skinny, light colored headline that might otherwise get lost on a layout. Each word of the headline is on a piece of different color cardstock, with the most important word (celebrate) on the darkest color, the color with more “visual weight.” In this instance, the “this” word will also be layered over a photo, so it may or may not need a little piece under there depending on the depth of that part of the picture.
One last tip! I use this ribbon configuration on pages a lot. It’s a nice change from a knot or a bow, and the folded ribbon with a brad through it gives it more presence on the page. I colored this plain white brad with a Cloud Cover Stampin’ Blends marker to make it match perfectly. Fun!
Thanks for stopping by the blog to see my 31 Pages in 31 Days series! I hope you’re picking up some fun tidbits to enhance your own creative efforts this summer.
I love the little ribbon tip! Thanks for sharing!