We spent the morning at an interactive Clifford exhibit on loan from a MN children's museum. There was lots of opportunities for creative play, and my boys took advantage. But I began noticing them in the library area reading. We were surrounded by chaos with kids everywhere and my boys would wander over, sit in chairs and read book after book. I grabbed my camera and snapped away.
My layout is very similar to the inspiration layout. You have to be enrolled in the class to have access to that, but I can show you how I made mine.
The original layout was one page. I always scrap two so I flipped it for the second page. You can see that I adapted my right page a bit from this sketch by moving the vertical 4x6 down so that the top lined up with the top of the horizontal 4x6.
I was so excited to learn this new tip from Amy. Whenever I want a border around the outside of a page I usually just put a piece of cardstock behind the slightly smaller piece. The paper Amy was using had a solid border, but was decorative inside. She cut out the inside to use elsewhere, and just used the solid part. My paper was just solid red cardstock, but rather than waste a whole page, I used a craft knife to cut out the center. I then attached the white cardstock to the front. Here is a view of the back. I left enough of an edge to put adhesive on. Such a simple idea, but one I'd never thought of before.
I used my SCAL program to cut the squares (what are those pointy squares called anyway?). The inspiration layout had flowers alternating with each square. I didn't have that many flowers so I chose to add in some gems as well. The gems are from Creative Charms (love that place).
To line up my gems and flowers I used my new ruler from Tim Holtz. The ruler has holes every 1/8 in that you can pierce through. I lined the holes up across the points of the squares and found the center between each square. I punched the hole through the ruler. Once I had all the holes punched I added the brads. It worked so well. LOVE THAT RULER! I've got issues, I know. :)
Amy printed her journaling on the bottom corner of her 12x12 page. I do not have a printer that can feed paper that size. I just printed mine onto white cardstock and cut it to match the corner of paper visible at the bottom of the page. It gives the same look without requiring a bigger printer.
Rather than putting the title at the bottom of this page as the original sketch showed I decided to move it to the top. I liked the balance that gave the two pages.
When I cut my title on SCAL some of the letters ran together so much it made it difficult to read. I decided to use red Sharpie to outline the edges of some of the letters to give it more definition. I added one last gem for the dot on the i. I really like how it turned out.
This layout was quick and simple. Used mostly 4x6 photos and very easy embellishing. I love how it turned out. Now I have something to document the love my boys have for reading, and that is something we will all cherish!
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