The final project in my Solo Crop was another layout.
For inspiration, I looked in my folder of saved screenshots from Shimelle’s Facebook Lives– I have almost never had a chance to watch the live broadcast, but I watch them on replay and if the design or idea from the session is especially inspiring, I take a screenshot.
I really liked the way this design shows off a bunch of patterned papers while still having a lot of whitespace, and it was a great design for a single photo. I knew it would be just right for this photo of my daughter watching the Magic Kingdom fireworks from our room in Wilderness Lodge.
I decided to follow Shimelle’s design pretty closely. Because of the direction my daughter is facing in the photo, I placed the photo on the left side of the page. I used mostly Starshine papers for my layout– and I boldly cut into the “Wish” paper from Never Grow Up! Inspired by the original layout, I pulled out the Starshine chipboard stickers, as well– I haven’t used many yet, and this was the perfect layout to do so!
I decided to stitch around each of my hand-cut rectangles and then pull up the edges a bit for some extra texture.
Emboldened by using my Lawn Fawn wood veneer stars on my previous layout, I pulled out my (unopened!?!) package of Lawn Fawn wood veneer hearts to use on this one. Because there was only one photo and it was not a very busy image, I felt like I could use some larger embellishments effectively on my layout.
The title is where I got stumped, and I actually didn’t finish this layout within the 6.5-ish hours of Adele’s Scrapstream. A few days later, I finally decided on adding “bedtime” above fireworks– and I added another wood veneer heart to fill in some empty space.
I imitated Shimelle’s trail of “sprinkly bits” that runs diagonally down the page– and it leads to a cluster that I added at the bottom for my journaling and a few more chipboard pieces, a die cut, and another wood veneer heart!
Have you spotted the hidden Mickey? 🙂
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