Day 201: "Wild" Scrapbook Page

My son and I attended a Mother-Son Dance at his grade school.  The theme was all wild animals, so I chose to use several animal print and textured papers to create this scrapbook page.  I matted the photo on a golden yellow mat (Making Memories), then on a leather look mat (Marcella by K), and then on a black mat (Stampin' Up!). I cut four different prints into 6" x 6" squares and then attached them to a 12" x 12" piece of card stock [which is a good use for a paper you are not so keen on!].  The two papers on the left side of the page are from the "Safari Kids" collection from DCWV.  The flocked leopard paper is by Anna Griffin, and the brown zebra print is by Moxxie. Once I had all my different animal prints in place, I added my matted photo to the center of the page. I felt like the upper left print and lower right print were not as strong visually, so I used my "wild about you" stamp from Stampin" Up! to add even more texture to the prints. I spelled out my title "wild" using giraffe stickers from Momenta on the same brown leather paper I used as a photo mat. I layered that on top of more black card stock and trimmed the edges with my scalloped scissors from Provo Craft. Since the giraffe print letters were a little pale, I used a yellow Stampin' Write marker to add some yellow to mimic the layers of the photo mats. I punched a scalloped circle from black card stock to use as a background behind a re-purposed lion pencil topper.  Finally, I added black photo corners in each corner of the page to pull it all together.

Day 26: The Cross

Tonight I worked on more notepads and pens for the Walk to Emmaus coming up. I changed to a cross pattern of paper, (The Paper Studio) to change things up a bit. Also, I am finding that the best double-sided tape for attaching the covers to the notepads is Terrifically Tacky Tape by Provo Craft.

Day 17: Make A Wish

I finished my page of my daughter blowing the dandelion flower. I have this pom pom trim that put me in mind of the white dandelions going to seed, so I used that, some lace, a pink ribbon from Stampin' Up!, some pearl daisy buttons (Buttons Galore) with the shanks removed, and some cardstock letters from Provo Craft to make a title of "Make A Wish" on rose red cardstock from Stampin' Up!. The title block was inspired by Trudy Sigurdson's book Embellished Emotions for Scrapbookers. My background paper was designed by Susan Winget for K & Company. While you can't see a lot of the paper, the sandy tan color, and rose and green in the background helps to pull all the elements together.