Step-by-Step: Building Castles

I'm a simple scrapbooker. I like to create quick clean layouts that also make big impact. With this layout, I used color and angles to achieve a simple but fun look. Let me show you how easy it is to recreate this layout.

Supplies:

• Doodlebug, Color Coordinates, Obviously Orange
• Doodlebug Buttons, Tropical assortment
• Heidi Swapp Florals, Small Kiwi [ctw1] and Small Orange
• Heidi Swapp Journaling Spots
• American Crafts, Foam Photo Corners, Playhouse
• American Crafts, Precision Pens

Instructions:

I used an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of yellow cardstock as my background and turned it horizontally to create a landscape layout.

To get the orange at an angle that would cover the yellow cardstock, I had to turn it vertically. Once I decided there was enough orange for me, about 4" on the bottom and 7" on the top, I adhered it to the yellow. I flipped the paper over and trimmed the orange all around the yellow so that I was left with an 8-1/2" x 11" piece of cardstock.

I trimmed a ½" strip of striped Doodlebug patterned paper and adhered it where the yellow and orange pieces of cardstock meet.

I lined up the photo flush against the striped paper, adhered my letter stickers right on top for a playful look and finished it off with two big green foam photo corners.

A Heidi Swapp journaling spot provided just enough space for me to journal with my favorite American Crafts pen.

I layered two Heidi Swapp small florals in orange and kiwi and adhered them right above the journaling spot to bring your eye to what I had to say.

Lastly, I haphazardly scattered a few Doodlebug buttons and adhered them with glue dots.