What a week it’s been! Virtual distance learning has officially started this week for my kiddos, and I’m spending a LOT of time working through that with them, but somehow I managed to put this page together in a few spare moments.
Part of the reason it was so easy to put this one together was because it was for lesson number one of Shimelle’s free class, “Timeless Layout Techniques” at scrapbook.com. I watched the lesson with my kids at the beginning of last week (more on that later in the post), and I have been mulling over how I’d put together my layout ever since.
One evening, I only had a few minutes to myself, and I pulled out some photos I printed a while ago, and I selected single photos that would work for this design.
In another moment, I got out a few collection kits and kit club kits that I have stashed away…
…and in another moment, I matched up a photo with a kit of supplies…
And with the design already determined by the class lesson, it really went together very quickly after that.
Supplies:
patterned paper: BasicGrey “Highline”
alphas: Echo Park “Head Over Heels,” BasicGrey “Highline,” and some ancient foam American Crafts Thickers
stickers: BasicGrey “Highline,” Bella Blvd Little Bits
washi tape: Bella Blvd “Illustrated Faith,” Michaels
other embellishments: Heidi Swapp Gold ColorShine, Colorbok Metal Dots, tissue paper
Remember how I said that I had my kids watch the lesson, too? Well, I thought this time at home might be a good opportunity to introduce them to design principles, especially as applied to scrapbook layouts. They each have an 8″x8″ album in which to put scrapbook pages they make themselves, and when I submit photo orders, I’ll ask them what photos they’d like to have printed for their own albums. I’m glad we had some on hand so that they could get going on this project!
With my five year old, I was a bit more hands-on, and he and I chose papers and embellishments together, I did some of the cutting, and I helped him compose his journaling.
My eight year old is a more “experienced” scrapbooker, so I let her design her page entirely on her own using her stash of scrapbook supplies. (In fact, making this page got her so excited about scrapbooking that she went on to make two more layouts after she finished this one!)
It was really fun to work on this lesson together, and I’m hoping that we can do the next one, too!