Hi everyone!
Welcome to the last day of Paper Kit Week!
This is Karen and I am here to share with you the layout I've made using the contents of the Find Your Wings and Fly paper kit.
I am still on a 6x12 kick and I just got back from a vacation in Turkey where my kids got to spend a lot of time with their cousins and I, of course, snapped a ton of photos. As I went through the pictures I took, I fell in love with a set where all four kids were present and laughing, so I printed them out, pulled out my kit and got to work. Here's what I ended up with:
The biggest challenge of using only the kit, for me, was figuring out how to make my title. If you've seen my work, you know that I like to use long titles on my pages. When I looked at the sticker sheet, the
circle for "The best" stood out to me right away. And so did the "memories." I'm a big fan of making things work for you, so I cut down both of the stickers to the shapes I wanted them to be and put them on my page.
I then built the rest of my title using one more sticker from the sheet ("thank you") and a few of the word sheets from The Sweetest Thing and alpha stickers from the Find Your Wings line. And my title was complete! It reads: Thank you for the best playful, sweet, and happy memories together.
Once I had all those vertical lines coming down from the top right of my page, I knew I wanted some thing in the bottom, coming up. So I took the Rainbow Harlequin paper and cut off along the white lines to have the diamond shape stick out. I then cut up the yellow strip from Mixed Media and, finally, wanted to have the same black I had on the upper right, so I cut a zigzagged section from back of Quatrefoil and I layered them on top of each other to create the bottom portion. I stuck a little label to put the date in between and one more yellow word on top.
I wanted to share with you one more thing. When I cut out "the best" to use in my title, I had the green circle section left over. As I put the pieces of my layout together, I kept going back to these leftovers. I
loved the colors and really wanted to use them. I decided to cut it in half and use each section on one edge of my page.
I love the feeling of something being cut off on one side and continuing on the other and the little extra bit it adds to my page. I wanted to mention this so that you remember you don't have to waste a thing. Even the parts you didn't intend to use can become an additional element. I cut up this sticker and used some of it on my title and some of it on my page as a standalone element (and I even have some more left over.)
Once I was done with my page, I stitched all over for extra interest and texture. I feel like the stitching ties the whole page together. I also stitched on my photos and some of the elements. If you look carefully, you'll see I stitched right over my son's face because it was off of the edge of the paper, this doesn't bother me but it's one of those things you have to think about before you stitch and make the decision consciously.
There we go, thank you for letting me share my layout and a recent memory that I cherish. I hope you liked it and I would love to see any of your recent layouts so please link me up in the comments!