Laura Vegas

This week, I'm quickly sharing all of the projects that I created for Sunny Studio Stamps for National Scrapbook Day, all of which are focusing on their awesome standalone dies. 

For this 6×8" pocket page spread, I picked out two pocket page dividers that have lots of tiny 2"x2" pockets. The smallest die in the Fancy Frame Squares dies fits perfectly in the 2"x2" pocket, which I just love.

I picked out a handful of patterned papers to coordinate with the colors in my 3"x4" title card, and die cut lots of tiny scalloped frames. I used the Lots of Dots embossing folder to emboss square of white cardstock to add behind each frame, and then added random embellishments to the centers of each. 

This is another photo-less layout, which I'm a huge fan of. But it includes lots of journaling and random facts about my life, which I think will be fun to look back on.

(Fancy Frame Square Dies, Heroic Halftones Paper, Dots & Stripes Jewel Tones Paper, Sweater Weather Paper, Lots Of Dots Embossing)

This week, I'm quickly sharing all of the projects that I created for Sunny Studio Stamps for National Scrapbook Day, all of which are focusing on their awesome standalone dies. 

For this 6×8" spread, I used the Staggered Circle dies to create two borders for the top and bottom of the left side of the spread. I adhered those pieces on a sheet of patterned paper, so that the fun teal pattern would show through the cut out circles. 

I used the Ribbon & Lace Border dies to die-cut several border strips – two for the first page of the spread, to go above and below my journaling and title card, and one for the second page of the spread to go alongside my photo. 

I used the Notebook Tab dies to die cut a notebook page from yellow patterned paper, adding my journaling block to the center. I work with 3"x4" filler cards and journaling cards in the majority of my scrapbooking these days, so these notebook page dies fit perfectly into my design process. 

(Ribbon & Lace Border Dies, Notebook Tab Dies, Staggered Circle Dies, Dots & Stripes Jewel Tones Paper)

One more project to share with you this week, and this one is a 6×8" pocket page spread. I recently shared a little story on Instagram about yanking old shelving out of my pantry, as I was in the process of giving it a new look. I shared that bottom photo (with the wood pieces in the box), and somehow ended up sharing this bigger story, and I knew that I wanted to get this into my album. These are the kind of stories that I want to do more of. Basically, the ones that have a little more depth to them.

I pulled out the TOUGH Story Kit from Ali Edwards to use for this project. I first used this kit way back in 2016, for THIS PROJECT, and I recently purchased the digital version, knowing that I wanted to have it handy for other projects. I still have plenty of pieces from the kit left to work with, but that was one of the few kits that I did NOT have the digital kit, so I made sure to add it to my collection. 

The photos for this pocket page spread aren't really pretty by any means. Lol. But they are what inspired my little "story time" share, so I knew I wanted to use them. I printed a "before" photo (showing all of the old shelving I had to rip out), a "after" photo (showing the results of all of those shelves being ripped out – basically, messed up walls and a few holes in the wall as well), and a photo of some of the pieces of wood I managed to pry off the walls (I had been tossing them in a box by the front door). 

One of the nice thing about having the digital kit is that you can print elements to whatever size you need. I had used the "tough and strong" chipboard piece on my other project back in 2016 – it was a small chipboard piece, which I adhered to the corner of a 4×6" photo. I wanted to use it on this project too, and ended up sizing it big enough to fit on the 3×4" filler card. I printed it, trimmed it, and adhered it with pop dots to add a little dimension. 

For my "before" and "after" photos, I dug out a few die cut labels and added alpha stickers to them (labels and stickers both from Bella Blvd) before adhering them to each photo.

I created a full 6×8" journaling page, copying and pasting my journaling directly from my Instagram post. I added a digital stamp, from the TOUGH Story Kit, to the top of the page, and used the digital version of the polka dot filler card to add a strip of coordinating polka dot "paper" along the bottom of the page. The "yes I can" was also the digital version of a chipboard piece, which I sized a little larger to add to the bottom of the page. 

It felt so good to get in there and create these three projects, and I'm really hoping to keep the momentum going and work on more projects in the upcoming weeks!

Hey – to anyone that still checks this little blog of mine 😉 I started this year so well, creating a little project on the first day of the year. It felt like I was kicking things off right, with the intention of creating more projects this year. Sadly, I haven't created a single thing this year. I haven't even worked on my Project Life album yet, other than slipping my photos into pockets. 

I've had good intentions. I've had projects in mind that I wanted to create. I wrote down some ideas. I pulled out some products. But I just couldn't get a single project going past those initial ideas in my head. Until last week, when I finally got some creative juices going and mananged to whip up three projects. 

The first one is this 6×12" pocket page spread, dedicated to work friends. I had pulled out the FRIENDS Story Kit from Ali Edwards earlier this year, and when I realized that I had quite a few funny quotes about work friends saved as screenshots on my phone, I thought they'd make for a fun little project. 

I started with this 3×4" floral filler card from the kit, and turned to my Dear Lizzy collections to find patterned papers that coordinated. The colors matched up so well with the papers I picked out. 

Instead of printing the screenshots, I ended up typing them up myself in Photoshop, so that they would all have the same font and plain white background. For the quotes that were shorter, and didn't take up the full 3×3" square, I added a little piece of patterned paper along the bottom to fill the empty space.

I also have the digital kits for almost all of my Story kits, which I LOVE! I'm a huge fan of working with digital elements, especially the journaling cards. I like to type out my journaling, so the digital versions of those cards are a must-have for me. I added the "friendship" digital stamp to the bottom of the card, and then added a few physical stickers and the little fabric heart patch. 

I'll be back to share another quick and easy project tomorrow.