Hello there!
My life story is kept in notebooks. Since, I was a little girl we always had pen and pads of paper/notebooks to play with. I think that is how my love for journaling got started. About 10 years ago, I discovered Traveler's Notebooks, and it was love at first sight. Fast forward to 2016, and scrapbooking showed up in my life, and transformed my journal into a more graphic format. So, today, I want to share a bit of my everyday documenting.
Here is one of layouts in my Gratitude Journal (Heidi Swapp Storyline Chapters Insert). Sometimes it is about the story and paper before mixed media!
I started by trimming a piece of the Moonbeams paper to 9x12in. Then I trimmed cut the strip into a 7.5x9" and a 4.5X9". The larger one was glued to the left of the spread, as the background for my picture. I then used a piece of Mosaic paper to mat my picture (4.5x4.5 "). Since I have quite a bit of ephemera still left in my stash, I pulled pieces to create the large cluster at the bottom of the photo. I added a few pieces of the Sticker album to complete this page.
Let's just say that after moderating a few of Vicki's classes, I have picked up an idea or two, such as this pocket idea. I started by folding the right page of the spread in half. Then, I used the left over strip of the Moonbeams paper to right side of the next page. Here, I used double sided red line tape to keep the fold in place, and then create the pocket( I added red line tape around the edge of the folded page, but NOT on the folded edge.
I used the large ephemera florals to create a large cluster at the top right edge of the fold. The large ephemera pieces also worked to help me create the title for the page. I just made sure to the adhesive to the part of the flowers that sit to the left of the fold edge.
Now to hold my journaling, I pulled the peachy paper from the 6x8 paper pad, then trimmed the 3x4 cut apart paper into a 4x6" strip. I glued it b-side up, so that I could use the grid side to add my journal. To embellish the page, I ran a bit of washi tape at the bottom of the strip, then added ephemera to complement my journaling.
I hope this gives you an insight to my most beloved possession, my journals. There is so much you can create with Vicki's collections and products, all you need is to make it your own!
XO
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