Monday, July 10, 2017

College Tour

After Kevin's last exam in May, we hit the road again, in search of that perfect university. It was a whirlwind tour, four colleges in three days. Sooner or later, he'll have to choose between all the schools he's visited. Hoping for robust scholarship offers to sweeten the pot, and make the choice an easier one. Meanwhile he's started to amass a nice collection of T-shirts from his favorite SEC schools!


This page was created with the June main kit from My Creative Scrapbooks.

Sunday, July 9, 2017

Epic Success Step-by-Step

The following tutorial was recently shared on My Creative's Scrapbook blog. It's an easy step-by-step for my page, Epic Success, created with My Creative Scrapbooks' Main kit for June.


As you can see, I drew inspiration for my page from the patterned paper below, one of the kit papers from the Fancy Pants' Family And Co. collection:


I loved those color-blocked stars and decided to make a similar star the focal point of my design. Using a piece of 12x12 paper, I sketched a five-pointed star to use as my template. Then, to make assembling the star easier, I numbered each segment and the corresponding side of the center section. 


After cutting apart the star, I traced each section on various patterned papers from the kit.


Here are my colorful star pieces, placed upon a grid-design background paper from my stash.


Next, I have a photo and a frame but, uh-oh, my picture was cropped too small!


That wasn't a problem for long...as I backed the frame with patterned paper, 


and placed my photo askew on top! It actually sets off the photo better than if it fit perfectly. ;)


Did you notice what has changed?! Before adhering the papers, I switched around two of the star's rays, so that a more solid pattern was on top. This strategic move was intended help my title stand out better when it is added to the upper portion of the layout.


Meanwhile, I added a few die-cuts around the photo frame and at the bottom of the star,


and placed several puffy banner stickers along a hand-drawn "clothesline" of sorts:


Finally, a long title was added using a Fancy Pants chipboard sticker, Jillibean Soup tiny letter stickers, and Fancy Pants chipboard alphabet, all three a part of the June Main kit. Pretty epic!


A bit of journaling, and a couple more stickers, finishes it off. Sweet!


I love when patterned papers and/or kit accessories spark an idea for me! What inspires your page designs?