I've got a photo heavy pocket page to share with you all this week! I often times find myself wanting to embellish overload, but I took a simple approach to this embellishment light layout. As you can see from the overview of the project below, these photos look very, very alike in nature. We're all wearing the same outfits and it is very overwhelming due to so much repetition. When having photos with repetition like this the placement of your photos is very, very important! As you can see, I put two photos sitting in the left column towards the bottom and then two photos in the right hand column towards the top. This help creates movement in the layout and breaks up a huge block of repetition.


As you can identify, there is only one filler card and then the title card. We'll take a look at those beauties in a little bit down below, but I wanted to point out how I separated them on this layout. Again, to help break up the heaviness of the repetition, spacing out the unique things helps out quite a bit.

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It's the last video of this week, but it's another fun one, I promise! I hope you've enjoyed this week of the same event, but scrapping the photos different ways (kinda, sorta). Today is the last pocket page process of this section and it features the dreaded bed of nails! Duh, duh, duh!! If you missed my previous page you can find it here! I hope you enjoy my design, especially since I had no plan from the beginning. Somehow it worked out, but you can see my process video down below!




On this photo I used a wood veneer word that says imagine from Michael's, a white ticket rub-on from American Crafts, a blue chipboard tag from Heidi Grace, and a little star sticker from Pretty Little Studio. This photo shows my boyfriend, Sam, laying on the bed of nails! I was too chicken to do it.


I had a great time dressing up this filler card. The two die-cuts are from Shimelle, the word sticker is from Simple Stories - Carpe Diem, the washi tape is from the dollar store, and the blue enamel dot is from Jolee's Boutique. I absolutely loved the way this one turned out!


Just a simple bit of decoration on this journaling card. This adorable wood veneer light bulb is from Basic Grey and I incorporated the same washi throughout all of the pages. I think it's important to try to keep something similar over pages that go together. It'll really help it flow, even if the color scheme sorta changes!


This other simple filler card featured a die-cut from Elle's Studio and a label (as a layer) from Elle's Studio as well. To lighten up this layout, I used a white doily and some more blue gems.


Lastly, I added a few bits to this bottom photo. All of these products have already been mentioned earlier. If you guys have any questions, please let me know! I hope you enjoyed and thank you so much for stopping by!

 Last, but not least for this blog post is this really fun filler card I created. Although my overall color scheme of the pocket pages for this event changed, I tried to keep similar components the same, like these blue and white dots and the stars. This filler is one of my favorites! The stamp is by Elle's Studio (so cute!), sequins are from Craft Medley, the stars from Heidi Swapp and the rub-on is from American Crafts! I hope you enjoyed this insert that I created! I'll be back one more time this week with my final pocket page! Thanks for stopping by, now tell me what was your favorite part of this page!

I have an exciting week of videos planned for you all! It's a three part video series where I show you how I'm documenting one event! In total there will be three videos two full page pocket pages and then an insert. I hope you enjoy them! Today I am sharing the first pocket page!






I am just so in love with how the first page came out that I had to film the rest of them for you, so be sure to come back and check out the other two pocket pages I created this week! Thank you so much for stopping by and be sure to tell me what some of your plans are for the summer and how you plan to document them! (As a disclaimer, this event took place earlier this year. I am not that fast at printing and scrapbooking!) I hope you enjoyed!

Hello everyone! I hope you're ready because today's layout share will be a big one! Although we're taking a break from the create a kit series, I'll have some process videos up soon! In the meantime, I started this project for a layout for a design team I was applying for, so that was where this all began. Then, I just kept rolling with it and this is what happened!

There are four layouts that all go together, one traditional and then three Project Life layouts. Now, I'll dive into the details of how I made them!



After I got that part situated, I needed something else behind my photo. I proceeded to layer a fun script piece of patterned paper (from the same pad) and some kraft paper to make my photo pop. I then added the kraft letters to spell out Buffalo at the top. I thought the layout looked a little blah, so I jazzed it up with using some white paint.

I'm not sure why, but I love using paints on layouts. I think it provides a fun texture that paper can't. Do you use paint on your layouts? Let me know in the comments!


So, as I said before, The title page was for a design team call, but since I had extra time and more photos from the occasion, I decided to do some pocket pages as well. This one features a snow leopard, two lionesses, a polar bear, and a cute giraffe!


Starting at the top left, that card is a piece of paper from the same paper pad, some teal acrylic paint (watered down), a heart doily from Wilton, and a chipboard bird from Dear Lizzy. Then, the card on the right hand side is from the Becky Higgins Project Life Kraft Foil kit. I added some teal splatters and then a cluster of scraps in the top right corner.


These gold stars are from a Heidi Swapp stickers pack and I also used some Heidi Swapp stickers directly on the photos. My favorite sticker is the one that says "head in the clouds" and I put it next to the giraffe! Ha! I'm hilarious!


Our next page features two adorable baby monkeys (one eating a grape), the cutest otter, and a yawning lion. These are some of my favorite pictures from our trip. In case you are wondering, I used a Canon Rebel T3 for all of these photos. We'll start with the top right card this time which is made from the same paper pack. Then, I used a scrap of the same doily from the last page, some gold sequins, then two letters stickers (I'll go into those in the next photo). Then the card on he left side is made from some kraft cardstock.


On the top right card I also used the watered down teal paint. I realized I didn't have much of this shade of teal in my stash so I made it to keep the story cohesive. I then used my favorite Thickers which are white foam called Rockabye. On a whim I went to my dollar store and had picked up these script words and this "fun" was perfect for the color scheme! The arrow stamped in the bottom right section of this card is from Heidi Swapp and inked in Memento black.


To complete the card on the left of the layout, I used my watered down teal paint and put it along all of the edges. It really makes the card pop out at you! Now to create more layers for this filler card, I pulled out some stamp sets. The main one I used is by Hero Arts called Birds, Trees, Messages & More. I used this large floral branch stamp and the single flower stamp to give some stark contrast beneath the Dear Lizzy floral chipboard piece. I also stamped another Heidi Swapp stamp and added a teal heart.


Are you guys tired yet?! I sure hope not! For the last page I just focused on these wonderful photos I had of the gorillas (yes, I know I wrote "monkey", but they're gorillas! I just didn't have enough letter stickers or room to spell gorilla). We'll skip the top left card for now, as I address it in the next photo, but in the middle row, the first card is from a cut apart from the Dear Lizzy Day Dreamer paper pack. I thought the nice light blue was a nice touch to all of the darker tones. Next, I made the middle filler card from the same Crate Paper pad and some kraft. I used letter stickers from Studio 112 and Sticko. Then, the last filler card in the middle row is from Theresa Collins. Last, but not least (well it might be least in my book, because I don't love the way it turned out...), I used my scraps from the prevous pages to create this filler card. The stamp is from Heidi Swapp again and I once again used the teal paint around the edges.

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My Minds Eye Record it Paper Pad, 6 by 6-Inch, Here is Happy