road trip layout

Last week I got to take a little work road trip with some colleagues. And so of course I had to create a scrapbook page about it!

I love making pocket pages for trip memorabilia, and this time I decided to turn it on its side and tuck the papers in that way. They won't be as accessible as the pages where you can access the pocket from the top of the page protector, but I was okay with that in this instance

Totally happy with the bits of embellishment. The admit one/flower cluster in the lower left was the favorite one I made in last weekend's embellishment play session and so I'd kept it to use one one of my layouts. In combination with the 'hello my name is' die cut I'm really happy with it.

The red/white arrows were a last minute addition as the text print paper was looking a bit bare but I think they play well with the red 'look here' arrow that just happened to be on a sticker sheet I was using.

The whole layout is loosely based on this sketch from Jen Gallacher's Stretch Your Sketch class.

a saturday scrapbook page

 

Today's scrapbook adventure was inspired by something I read on a blog this week, and this wonderful picture I snapped as I was leaving the library yesterday. I love macro shots for giving a photo focal point and blurring the background a bit!

The other thing I like to do when I'm mixing letter stickers is to make the text that's different into a message that can be read on its own. So if just the green sparkly letters catch someone's eye, "Make Life Big" is a one message. If you take the time to read the whole phrase, then you'll see the whole quote, "It's the little things that make life big." It can help to make longer titles easier to process I think. 

Otherwise a pretty simple page. I'm really trying to do pages that focus the eye on the picture, although in this case the title was probably just as important, so I've been keeping my backgrounds simpler (or trying to anyway).