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| I promise these double-page layouts line up properly in real life. They really do! |
Just about every year at the Pumpkin Show, some little shop or booth is selling these laser die cut titles for the event, and I can't keep myself from buying them, even if they aren't my style. They're different every time, but something about them always just feels kitschy and somehow reminiscent of the whole experience, so they're sprinkled throughout my Pumpkin Show albums. The green backing on this particular one was an obscenely bright shade of grass green, so to tone it down and help it match better to the page, I used a blending tool to ink it up liberally with Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink.
I also couldn't resist this flocked pumpkin paper from GCD Studios. Obviously, I have no qualms with being literal on my Pumpkin Show pages.
A single vertical photo really throws me off when I'm arranging my pictures, so I turned to this layout sketch from Shimelle Laine's 4x6 Photo Love Series to help out. I still don't like how weighty the vertical print feels on top of the horizontal ones, but the sketch and project examples helped me come to terms with that and move on.
Supplies Used:
Patterned Paper: GCD Studios, My Mind's Eye
Border Punch: Fiskars
Border Sticker: Reminisce
Gems: Colorbok
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plumpdumpling 64p · 709 weeks ago
I never thought about the idea of literal layouts, but I guess I have no qualms with them, either! I'm desperate to use all of those cutesy accessories they sell, like the playing cards I used on the James page in the kissing book.
Tracey · 709 weeks ago
For some reason, being super literal is one of the things I find really fun about scrapping. I'm sure if I was trying to create fine art, I'd actually care about symbolism and making things more meaningful, but scrapbooking somehow seems to lend itself to heavy-handedness.
Actually, that's probably a lie. If I was creating fine art, I'd probably be just as literal, and therefore not interesting.