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Hey everyone! This is Shelly with your monthly dose of the makings of a double page layout.
This month, I thought I would share one of my favorite places to go looking when I am in need of a little inspiration. I don’t have to go too far. I actually turn to my own pages. Why re-invent the wheel, when you have something that has worked in the past. Right!?!
So here is my new page.
Supplies: Now & Then: Izzy – “Good Times” Range paper, “Boys” Dapper paper, “Smile” Bloom paper, 6x6 Designer paper pad, “Good Times” 3x4 Cards, “Happenings” Enamel Dots, “Dream Big” Decorative Buttons; Now and Then-Milo – “Little Things” Label Stickers, “Documented” Decorative Buttons; Record it! – Pretty Things Decorative Tape; Other: String, letter stickers, number stickers
And here is my inspiration page.
Last month, I shared a spring summary page for my daughter’s album. While getting those pictures ready for print, I also prepped pictures for a spring summary page for my son’s album too; nothing like hitting two birds with one stone. For my son’s spring page, I was inspired by this older page of mine. I knew these pictures would work perfectly with the same sketch with just a little tweaking to make it work again for me.
Like always, I had my sketch ready and waiting for me when I was ready to get creative. As you can see, I simply replaced one vertical picture for a third photo strip to accommodate all my extra pictures. I kept with a very generic sketch leaving room to get creative once I started cutting up papers. This sketch was solely to remind me how I had planned to lay out my pictures. Sometimes I like to add in more detail if I have ideas flowing, but this go around, I didn’t really have a plan except for my pictures.
Next stop was to lay out my pictures and pull out some pretty patterned papers that had some colors that talked to me. I really wanted to stick with mostly yellow, a little bit of green, and a touch of the blues and orangey reds.
After pushing papers and colors around, I really liked the yellow stripe to be the background of my pictures. With so much green in my pictures, I thought it was a nice contrast. I am not a color expert by any means. I know some of the basics, but I ultimately flow with what calls to me and makes my eyes happy.
Then it was time to have fun and embellish. I filled in some of the open space with some of the 6x6 papers from the Now & Then Izzy Collection. I love that there are “bonus” patterns in those designer paper pads. Both of the patterns I went with are not designs that are 12x12.
I created a little banner cluster from a couple of scraps left over from the same papers I layered behind my focal picture topped with one of the 3x4 cards embellished with a little enamel heart and the year.
I brought the same letters from the title over to the right side of my layout to bring the sides together along with some buttons, enamel dots, and decorative tape.
Not to leave all you single page loving enthusiasts out in the cold, so here is some inspiration for all of you too! I thought both sides of this layout would look great as a stand-alone too. I would probably add two more enamel dot/button clusters for a little more pop, and it would be good to go.
And I can’t forget about the right side! I like that my random words could act as a nice title holder for a single page layout too.
Do any of you turn to your own albums for inspiration? It makes me happy that I can be inspired by my own creations, yet the new pages always seem to meld into their own look. I like that I can tweak my sketches to make them work for the pictures that I have on hand. Just a few little things here and there and it’s a whole new page to me.
Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you have a wonderful week!
