LOAD is here! I love love love doing LOAD layouts.
So I intend on uploading my latest batch of LOAD layouts here every Sunday evening. Since it started on Friday I only have 3 to share.
First prompt was to do one with no words. That made me think of numbers. My immediate thought after that was the number 1 which reminded me of J's first birthday.
Section page for J's birthday book
Since my love and I went on a weekend getaway, I decided to do a little LOAD on the ROAD. It was pretty easy since I was using a kit. I didn't get to do my second prompt for my version of the perfect day (I think I'll do this one soon). Instead I finished J's second page of her first birthday.
Third prompt was to do a layout on something you appreciate that you often overlook.
I did the sky - because I find the sky so beautiful.
I want to explain this layout process.
First, I chose the photo. I had four to choose from, and I debating whether to use all four or showcase one. I chose the best one from Halloween night 2012. I remember being out there ready to go trick or treating and I looked up and saw this beautiful layers of color.
I considered a neutral background either white or kraft. Yet when I saw purple I decided to do a complementary color - light green. This cardstock was perfect - except it was a 12x12. It had some water damage on one side, so I went ahead and cut it down to 8 1/2 x11.
I knew I wanted a little orange to pull out the orange in the picture. So when I went about choosing pattern papers I had orange in mind.
I found this pretty set of pattern papers in my scraps pile. I was drawn to the stripes one first, and it was a left over piece. It was a little bit bigger than my picture so I trimmed that down. The flowers pp coordinated. It was in one piece.
I moved the pieces around a bit, knowing that I was going to put the striped one down next to my photo. After a while I decided I should cut the flower pp so that it would look like one huge piece. So it went PP - photo- PP. At the last moment I added the orange cardstock down the middle so it would complete the framed look.
I went through my themed stash to find a title. This chipboard title "outdoors" was perfect. I looked in my color bins for more ideas. I found this set of tabs that went with another project. I thought explore would be good. Instead of using both pieces of the tab I cut off one side. That way if I need it for another project I have it. Plus, it wouldn't been able to been seen anyways.
A quick look at my ensemble I knew I was missing something -ribbon. I feel as though I use ribbon in most of my work. I thought it would be good to pull out a bit of red since there was dark red in the flower PP. I foudn this circles ribbon that was dark red with circles of pink and green. It sort of pulled together the looks because there was green in the background and the PPs, and pinks in the photo.
I arranged the embellishments in a triangle - to give it a balanced look.
I journalled right at the bottom, with the date written on the orange paper.
Journalling reads
The sky...
always a part of our lives that we forget to see how beautiful it can be
until we look up.
From sunrise to sunset to moonlit - always beautiful.
And that's my first Sunday installment of my layouts. I think I'll go over my process on the LO with the least comments. This one only has 2. I have a need to explain my choices for some reason.
I'm currently in the Pretty paper party with Shimelle as well as the Curious Scrapbooker Field Guide BPC class with another one of my faves May Flaum.
I just signed up for the 30 days of Lists starting in March. Yea I'm a busy busy gal!
