Step-by-Step: Great

Instead of creating a layout about our trip to the Science Museum, I chose to focus on the extended visit we had with my grandparents, while including photographs from our trip to the museum as well as a focal photograph of my daughter and her great-grandparents reading a book together. The title then was easy... "GREAT." Here's how I created the page, step-by-step:

Supplies:

• Bazzill Basics - Monochromatic Packs 12x12 - Grays
• Bazzill Basics - Monochromatic Packs 12x12 - Yellows
• American Crafts - Thickers - Chipboard Shape Stickers - Accents - Wine
• Heidi Swapp - Journaling Spots - Frills 2 - Black and White
• Clear Scraps - Clear Album Embellishments - Decorative Frame
• Sakura Pen Set - Micron 6-piece Black ink set - Six Different Point Sizes
• Sharpie - Poster-Paint - Water Based - Fine Point - White
• brads
• Pebbles Inc. Alpha Stickers
• Dymo Labeler
• Imagination Project Paper
• American Crafts paper

Instructions:

1. Begin by cropping three supporting photographs to 2" x 3" with a vertical orientation.
2. Cut strips of coordinating patterned papers in random widths and staggering lengths to create a striped background along the bottom third of the layout.
3. Add all four photographs to the layout.
4. Attach the clear frame to the right of the focal photograph using a brad in the top right corner of the frame.
5. Cut and corner-round a piece of patterned paper to 2 ½" x 2" to create a background for the title.
6. Cut strips of yellow cardstock to ¼" wide. Run the strips through a handheld Dymo Labeler to emboss the title letters onto the cardstock. Then lightly dab an ink pad over the letters to ink the embossed letters. Cut the title words into strips (one per word).
7. Add alphabet stickers to spell "GREAT".
8. Add a self-adhesive Thickers embellishment across the left side of the title block, over the clear frame.
9. Handwrite the rest of your title onto white cardstock, cut into a journaling strip, ink the edges, and adhere with three-dimensional adhesive to the title block.
10. Add journaling to a Heidi Swapp notes journaling square and adhere to the left side of the focal photograph, overlapping slightly.
11. Add brads as a decorative embellishment to the edges of the patterned paper background strips.
12. Finally, add the date to the bottom strip with a black pen.
    
    

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