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a journaling goldmine!

Hello and happy Monday! I hope you all had a lovely weekend. Today I want to share a resource I came upon quite by accident.

I am the mother that monitors all sorts of media. (With a handsome and technically savvy 15 year old in the house, I feel it my duty and responsibility to help him to learn to manage his social media interactions, and his electronic communications. We have no snapchat (I cannot fathom one itty bitty moral reason why an adult would need this, and think it ruinous that kids have it), no facebook (really, feel free to call, text, or better yet, ride on over to your friend's house if you need to know how he/she is), and monitored use of twitter, and instagram. I also have the right to read texts and imessages at any time, with only one ask. (Feel free to use me as the person who is "much more strict than I am" when you need to with your kids!))

 

As I helped myself to his phone to check out his Instagram messages (seriously, did they really need to add this feature?), I saw a hyperlink for ask.fm just below his name.

I clicked on over and then spent the next hour reading the q+a.

And I laughed.

And laughed.

I know that Nigel is whipsmart and has a delightful sense of humor, but to see it in action was amazing. I had quite a night, reading through all his quirky answers. 

Here are a few of my favorites:

Do you smile at strangers?

No I know about stranger danger

 

What do you look like when you wake up in the morning? 

A narwhal

 

You're extremely hot but I'm pretty sure you hate me

Probably not I don't hate many people but you were right about the first part

 

What question would you like to ask the Somali pirate?

How many times a day he says argh

 

What's the best piece of advice you've ever received?

Always brush your teeth

 

If you could print any phrase on a T-shirt, what would it say? 

It's ok to stare

 

Awesome, no?

 

I copy and pasted them from the site onto 4x6 cards. It is going to take about 45 to record all his answers. The pages are super plain...

 

 but I thought I could intermingle them with selfies and other photos and make a fun little mini-album. They best part for me was seeing his personality shine through. And because he isn't trying to appease me by filling out questionnaires, the answers seem all the more authentic.

 

How about you? Have you found any journaling gems for your teenagers? If so, please share! I'd love to know!

 

Thank you for stopping by! I hope this gave you a bit of inspiration!

Sunday Photo + Words

In Review

Our June gallery is such a treat as we get to see not only new layouts, but also their evolution. As we look through the layouts one last time, let's think of one thing that we could do based upon each layout. One way in which we could be inspired by the inspired.

 

City Kid | Aliza Deutsch

12 x 12 | materials cardstock (Bazzill Basics) + patterned paper (Studio Calico, Cocoa Daisy) + brads (October Afternoon) + letters (Jillibean Soup) + wood veneer (Cocoa Daisy) + stickers (Echo Park, My Mind’s Eye) + stamp (Cocoa Daisy) + fonts (Burst My Bubble)

WRITE about how your children belong in their environment. Good fit? Square peg, round hole? Or how about you. Were you born into your environmental element, or did you have to find it as an adult?

 

Happy Smile | Marnie Flores

12 x 12 | materials patterned papers (Glitz) + elements (Glitz) + fonts (2Peas Graham Cracker)

CLICK your camera at a subject lying down. Stand over top for a fun perspective.

 

Just Add Water | Francine Clouden

12 x 12 | materials cardstock (Bazzill Basics Paper) + stickers (Scenic Route, My Mind's Eye) + canvas diecuts (BasicGrey) + diecut (Glitz Design) + spray ink (Kesi'art) + sequins (craft supply) + sewing machine

SCRAPBOOK using a theme of your page as an element.

 

Playful | Sue Althouse

12 x 12 | materials cardstock (American Crafts) + patterned paper (Echo Park, Jenni Bowlin) + buttons (Queen & Co.) + butterfly punch (Martha Stewart) + title (Silhouette) + floss (We R Memory Keepers) + 12x12 die cut (Jillibean Soup) + foil gold butterfly (Jenni Bowlin) + mini pearls (Doodlebug) + typewriter (Remington)

SCRAPBOOK using a tone on tone silhouette full page graphic.

 

You Make My Heart Smile | Lisa Borbély

8.5 x 11 | materials tags (Cocoa Daisy, Fancy Pants Designs) + flair (Panda Eight) + stamp (Cocoa Daisy) + stickers (My Minds Eye) + heart (Simple Stories) + wood veneer (Studio Calico) 

SCRAPBOOK with a bottom heavy design.

 

The Last Time | Amy Sorensen

12 x 12 | materials patterned paper (American Crafts, Crate Paper, Echo Park, Pebbles) + alpha stickers (BasicGrey) + date stamp (Cocoa Daisy) + fonts (Bario Regular, Arsenale White) 

WRITE about the end of an era.

 

Say Cheese | Amy Coose

12 x 12 | materials patterned paper (Heidi Swapp, My Mind's Eye) + labels (Chic Tags) + stickers (My Mind's Eye) + pen (American Crafts) + cutting machine (Silhouette Cameo) 

WRITE about a time when a dream came true.

 

The Family Pi | Jennifer Larson

12 x 12 | materials patterned paper (Studio Calico, American Crafts) + stickers (Studio Calico, October Afternoon) + brads (American Crafts) + thickers (Studio Calico) + flair (October Afternoon) + die cut (October Afternoon) + rubons (Studio Calico) + wood veneer (Lily Bee) + chipboard letters (BasicGrey) + paint (Jenni Bowlin) + ink (Jenni Bowlin) + pen (Sharpie) + punch (EK Success) + epoxy stickers (Studio Calico) 

WRITE about one topic from multiple perspectives. 

 

Sweet Girl | Jina Jean

12 x 12 | materials patterned paper (Lawn Fawn) + stickers (American Crafts, Heidi Swapp) + diecuts (Elle's Studio, American Crafts) + label (Chic tags) 

SCRAPBOOK with layers. At least four! 

 

Finals | Laura O'Donnell

12 x 12 | materials digital kit (Light Bulb Moment by JustJaimee and Stolen Moments) + font (Remington Noiseless) 

CLICK a picture of your child in their natural element. 

 

Lunch This Week | Carey Bridges

12 x 12 | materials digital kit (Celeste Knight's Honeysuckle) + journal cards (Celeste Knight's Honeysuckle Journal Cards) + digital elements (Pixels & Company's Bermuda Triangle Collab, Gennifer Bursett's Miss Molly Elements) + washi tape (Scotty Girl Design's This Year 2014 Summer Washi Tape) + word strips (Scotty Girl Design's In the Kitchen Word Art) + font (1942 Report) 

CLICK a photo of the menu board at your favorite restaurant.

 

Happy Anniversary | Cristina C. Scrap

12 x 12 | materials paper, flair, sequins, stamps, mist (Studio Calico) + ink (Versamark) + embossing powder (American Crafts) + modeling paste + sewing machine + cut file (Christine Newman - listgirl) 

SCRAPBOOK using modeling paste. It's fun to get dirty!

 

Hello Lovely | Amy Kingsford

8.5 x 11 | materials cardstock (Digital Design Essentials) + patterned paper (Digital Design Essentials) + buttons (Digital Design Essentials) + brads (Digital Design Essentials) + labels (Digital Design Essentials) + stickers (Digital Design Essentials) + wood veneer (Digital Design Essentials) + washi tape (Amy Kingsford, Digital Design Essentials) + fonts (Century Gothic) 

SCRAPBOOK using a color scheme from your favorite decade.

 

Keep Calm | Celeste Smith

12 x 12 | materials digital kit (Shine On by Lauren Grier & Erica Zane) 

CLICK a profile picture.

 

Sweet & Spicy | Kate Christensen

8.5 x 11 | materials digital kits (Adiamo by Scotty Girl Design; Boardwalk: Wood Grain by Laura Passage of Wishing Well Designs; Every Little Bit: Neutral Paper Pack by Deena Rutter) + frame (Summerific Frames by Creashens) + alpha (Endless Summer by Sugarplum Paperie) + mist (Mess it Up V.3 by Dawn by Design) + fonts (Pea Lex Valentine, CK Mama O, Century Gothic)

SCRAPBOOK on the diagonal.

 

Five | Valerie O'Neall

12 x 12 | materials cardstock (American Crafts) + decorative tape (My Mind's Eye) + chipboard frames (Crate Paper) + chipboard numbers (Sassafras) + enamel shapes (My Mind's Eye) + phrase stamps (American Crafts, Crate Paper, Studio Calico) 

SCRAPBOOK with washi tape AND a number. It's a twofer challenge!

 

Sprinkler Dog | Marnie Flores

12 x 12 | materials patterned paper (One Little Bird, Troublemaker) + twine (Splendid Finns) + journaling blocks (Creativity by Crystal) + fonts (Bondoluo, Century Gothic) 

CLICK a photo of your pet doing something seasonal.

 

Thank you for the increased number of comments! It is so lovely to hear from you and to better develop our relationships. It's so fun to check as the day goes on and see that our hard work is appreciated! Thank you so much.

 

Before we go, we wanted to take a minute to say goodbye and thank you to Two Peas In a Bucket. We read the sad news this week that they are closing up shop. And we are so sad. So very sad. For years they were an industry leader. Ahead of their time, they created message boards that allowed us, as scrapbookers and people, to connect with one another. Their galleries allowed us all to improve as we could study and learn from those more talented. Their store helped launch companies as their Garden Girls showed what could be done with them. And their Garden Girls have been some of the most incredibly talented. Kristina and Jeffrey had vision and talent and used it to alter the face and the landscape of the scrapbooking world. Thank you, to both of them for creating a community for us and for forging an online scrapbooking home for so very many of us. We will miss you!

Vacation Layouts: Day#3

Welcome back to more tips on vacation layouts. I'm Amy Sorensen and I'm your host for one more day.

 

When I was at work yesterday, three different co-workers stopped to ask me how my trip went. When I answered for the third time that it was lovely and relaxing, with lots of bonding time and plus: I found a beautiful silver necklace which was exactly what I wanted!, I had a burst of inspiration for some scrapbook journaling. So I wrote it down and saved it, which means that whenever I get around to scrapbooking those stories, I already have something written. That's one way to write about your vacations: right at the moment of inspiration, even if it happens when you're not actually scrapbooking. (I confess to having written journaling in the middle of Costco, and while sitting outside of a dressing room waiting for my daughter to show me her outfits, and at the swimming pool while watching my youngest son swim.)

 

Sometimes the vacation stories get told in stages!

 

Here are four last ideas for scrapbooking photos from your vacations.

 

7. Start big, go small. Find an image that represents one of the best moments on your trip. The picture doesn't have to be the most beautiful or evocative or technically perfect one. Just one that manages to capture some part of that best moment. Print it large—5x7 is a useful size. Then, add layers of story with supporting images, printed small, pictures that tell about that good moment from different perspectives. You might not have taken the photo that completely captures the moment, but the composite effect of all of the images will deepen the telling. I think of this as a photo essay.

 

(For a recent tutorial from Carey  on printing 2 3x4 photos on a 4x6, click here.)

 

For example, on a trip we took a few years ago, one of my favorite moments happened when my son Kaleb and I were walking through the parking lot near Old Faithful. We were sharing a can of soda and a poppy seed muffin, and just talking and laughing together. (Even now, two years later, when I buy that kind of muffin, Kaleb will say "remember when we ate one of these at Yellowstone?") Of course no one knew to take a picture of us walking through the parking lot. But I did find a picture of him with the soda can still in his hand, so that is my big photo on the layout. Then I used smaller pictures of Old Faithful to layer extra details.

 

In this layout, the large image is a lucky one:

 

I happened to snap it while we were waiting in line, right before the magical moment happened. The other pictures I included reinforce the "magical" feel of Disneyland (especially for a five-year-old): seeing Disneyland for the first time and meeting some of his favorite characters.

 

8. Compare there with here. How is the place you're visiting different from your home? (Alternatively: how is it the same?) One of my favorite experiences (that I didn't take a picture of because I was experiencing it!) from this Disney trip was standing in front of a bank of hyacinths with all of my kids, each of us entranced by color and scent, something we didn't have back home in Utah in February. The images I used on this layout don't necessarily capture that experience, but the journaling explores just how lovely it was to leave winter and enter spring.
Weather, landscape, customs, languages, architecture (I have a layout that's just about the cobblestones in San Gimgiano, Italy), even scents and the color of the light: all of the differences are potentials for layouts.

 

As you think about this topic, remember that you don't have to have an image that exactly represents the contrast. Your journaling can do that, the supplies you use, even your title.

 

9. Get yourself in the mix. With family vacations, it's easy to focus on other people. But you were on that trip, too! Make a layout or two about your experiences. I confess: I stood in line specifically to get my picture taken with Eeyore, and I'm not sure that the four-year-old waiting to see Tigger was more excited or if I was!

 

10. Think about the little details. In the overwhelming arc of all the stuff that happens on a trip, it's easy to misplace the smaller details. They are the things, though, that make the vacation special. Consider scrapping about:

• transportation entertainment. How do you keep your kids (or yourself!) entertained while you're traveling?
• the journey, not just the destination. What fun things happened while you were getting to your vacation spot?
• reading material. I don't know about you...but for me, picking the right book(s) is an essential part of any trip. What did you read and how did it influence your thoughts about the trip?
• a dining experience. It doesn't have to be anything extravagant or unique. Just memorable. (For us, it isn't Disneyland if we don't have a churro and a Dole Whip; toss in a turkey leg for my boys, too.) Even snacks sometimes create fun memories—remember that poppy seed muffin?
• a list of pictures you wish you'd taken. This is one of my favorite things to do because imaginary pictures can be taken my anyone and from any perspective. Or sometimes it's just impossible to take photos (I wish I had a picture or two of our white water rafting trip down the Snake River last summer, but I didn't dare bring my camera).
• unexpected "adventures." Maybe you took a wrong turn somewhere. Maybe you ended up stranded on the side of the road. Maybe you took your little kids to a "light show" in Vegas that turned out to mostly be a skin show. (Not that that's happened to me before...) You can't plan everything on a trip, and sometimes the unexpected adventures turn out to be the funnest part!
• the accommodations. Was your hotel much nicer than you expected—or, much ickier? Do you stay at the same resort for every trip or try different places? What about the pool, the gym, the grounds? The pillows???
• things you forgot. What did you have to hunt down at a store somewhere because you left it at home?
• how the trip changed you. Perhaps you learned something about yourself or your traveling companions. Maybe you saw something that changed your perspective on life. Or did something brave you never thought you would. Travel has the enormous potential to bring us personal insights. What are yours?

I hope you've found some ideas to help me with your vacation photos. Happy scrapping!

Vacation Layouts: Day #2

 

Hi friends! Amy here, with four more tips for scrapbooking your vacation photos.

 

I have to tell you something exciting: yesterday I managed to work through the 203 photos I took on my recent trip. I deleted 59 and have thirty-ish I want to print and scrap. But I'm sticking with this Disney 2010 group of photos first!

 

I loved reading yesterday's comments. I love that some of you are not intimidated by the mound of vacation photos—love and am inspired! And I love that some of you, like me, struggle with it a bit. Because...I'm inspired to not struggle. Just do! So with that, here are four more tips for scrapbooking your vacation photos.

 

3.  Tell a funny story. It's not that I don't laugh in my regular, non-vacation life. But I really do laugh more when I'm on a trip. I think it's because all of the everyday worries just can't be worried about, and so the funny stuff stands out more. Some of the funny stories from vacations become family legends even! In this layout, I tell the story of Aladdin and the Chick, which still makes all of us laugh:

 

4. Make two-page layouts. I tend to make a lot of one-page layouts, even though in my deepest scrapbooker heart, I love and adore two-page spreads. There's just so much room for photos and stories! (I think that because single-page layouts look better when you share them online, we gravitate towards making more of them. But that's just my opinion.) Take that layout about Aladdin. I could've easily made it as a single page, with just the photo with Aladdin and Jasmine. But by adding all of the rest of the photos (they are all pictures with characters), I present a bigger story and get a few more photos off of my computer. 

 

Sometimes it feels a little tricky to get it all balanced—this is work that I consider to be play, though! Try starting your two-page layout by building out from the center, like I did in the above layout. I put the two pieces of turquoise cardstock right next to each other so that they felt like one bit canvas, and then I worked out from the middle. This gave me an almost-symmetrical feel. I always tie the two halves of a double-page spread together with repetition: some of the same type (color, shape, technique) of supplies. I also try to include words on both sides (since there are pictures on both as well) for a more balanced feel. (Jenny wrote an entire week's worth of blog posts about two page layouts that starts here; here is an article I wrote with some other ideas for two page layouts.)

 

5. Focus on a relationship. Sometimes the story from a trip is about what you did, or saw, or experienced. But if you pay attention, there are so many other little stories, some of them based on relationships. Watch for those connections when you're processing your photos. When I am Photoshopping a whole bunch of pictures, I keep a document open on my computer where I make notes about how I might use the images. That was how I had the ah-ha moment that led to this layout: as I made notes, I realized I had a bunch of pictures of my two youngest together. You get a bit of the story of what we did, but also my thoughts on their relationship:

 

 

6. Scrap the Outfits. This is especially fun if you have teenage girls. Or tween girls. Or, heck, girls of any age who are obsessed with clothes, even when they're on vacation! (I bet there are boys who care about this, too. Mine just don't.) I've made vacation layouts about swimsuits, winter coats, and inappropriate hiking attire. I even have a layout about how my mom always looks put together, even during a windstorm at Lake Powell. 

 

Or, for a different angle, you could scrap about the clothing you bought during a trip. Especially the commemorative t-shirts.

 

Tune in tomorrow for four more tips! But before that, tell me: what is your favorite kind of trip to scrapbook? Mine are trips to southern Utah. If it's got red cliffs and blue sky and desert vistas, I'm a happy girl!

Vacation Layouts: Day #1

Welcome to summer! This is Amy Sorensen, and I'll be your blog host for the next three days.

 

Last week I got home from a vacation where something extraordinary happened: I only took 203 photos. Two hundred and three pictures in an entire week! That is far less than I usually take. Partly this just-a-few-photos thing was because my daughter and I went somewhere we'd already been twice before (San Jose del Cabo, in Mexico), so I didn't feel a compulsion to photograph everything. Partly it happened because of my dawning realization that quantity of photos doesn't really have anything to do with quality. A handful of strong, story-filled images is more useful than a whole bunch of random stuff.

 

Also because I tend to get overwhelmed by vacation photos and then just not do anything with them.

 

It's sort of like laundry after a vacation, don't you think? All those images you bring home that need attention. You get back and you download 528 pictures and then you think, holy cow, now I have to do something with these! Only, unlike laundry, it's pretty easy to just not. Not do anything.

 

I'm hoping I'm not alone in this problem.

 

So! Today, tomorrow, and Friday, I'll be sharing with you ten different approaches that will help you get your vacation photos off of your computer (hopefully you've already got them off of your memory card?) and onto some layouts.

 

The very biggest and most important thing I want to share about scrapping vacation photos is this one: lower your expectations. When we expect ourselves to scrapbook all the photos and all the stories, we're setting ourselves up for frustration (especially when you have 528 photos!) It's easy to be overwhelmed, thinking about all the work you could do. So, instead, decide right now to scrapbook only some of them. Even just one or two. In the vast narrative of your life, a handful of words and images about each vacation will be enough.

 

To start, pick just one vacation to focus on. I think of this as "one topic scrapbooking" and it's a thing I do quite often: focus for a specific length of time on one topic. I do this in January with Christmas photos and in the spring with birthday photos, but summer feels like a good time to focus on vacation pics. I chose a trip we took to Disneyland back in February of 2010. That's right friends: nearly four and a half years later, I'm scrapping these stories.

 

Next, gather any written stories you might have. When I travel, I always take my laptop, and then I spend twenty minutes or so at the end of the day writing down sweet experiences, or funny ones, or even awful ones. So, to get started with this project I found those notes where I had saved them. I also re-read the blog entry I wrote about our trip and I scrolled down on my Facebook page to see the statuses I'd posted.

 

Finally, take a deep breath and confront your folders full of pictures. I give myself several days to sort, delete, process, and print my pictures. I use Adobe Bridge to sort my photos, and here's my process:

 

  1. A rating sort. I start with the first picture and I decide: is this a photo I want to print, want to keep but not print, or want to delete? If it's a print, I rate it with a 5; if it's a keep-but-don't-print, I don't rate it at all, and if I'm going to delete it, I rate it with a 1. I'm pretty severe with what I decide to delete, especially with photos that are almost the same. I delete blurry photos, or those with someone blinking or making a weird face. I try to keep the ones that tell a story, are evocative of the mood of the vacation, or are little pieces of the bigger whole.

 

2. After I've worked through an entire day's worth of pictures, I sort all of the files by their rating. The photos rated with a 1 are on top, so I can quickly select and delete them all. All of the photos I want to print will be at the bottom of the sorted list, so I can start processing them when I'm ready.

 

Once you've got vacation photos and stories, you're ready to make some layouts! Here are two tips to start. Come back tomorrow for four more.

 

1. Make a kit of supplies. While I was thinking about this trip, I realized that the reason I was resisting scrapping my Disney pictures is that I don't love and adore Disney-themed supplies. (In fact, I confess: We've been to Disney three times and I don't even own one Disney-themed supply.) Once I gave myself permission to just scrap with supplies I like (mostly based on color), I was excited to get started. I put together a kit with some of my favorite papers, alphabet stickers, and embellishments. Some are old, some are new, but they all fit together in my head because they feel like the vacation felt (February in Disneyland is nothing like February in Utah!). Then as I start each new layout, I look for supplies in this kit, rather than facing the entirety of my supply collection.

 

2. Go back through your photos one more time. Sometimes an amazing image gets overlooked when you're sifting through so many pictures. If you give yourself a few days and then go back to the pictures, you're likely to find an image you didn't notice the first time. I found this photo when I remembered that, duh, we didn't only go to Disneyland on that trip. We also made a rushed visit to the beach, just before it got too dark. Most of my photos were too blurry, but when I started paying attention I found this silhouette that made me gasp!

 

 

So, tell me: is it hard for you to scrapbook your vacation pictures? Why or why not? 

 

Click | One Vacation, Three Cameras

On our recent family vacation, I took along three of my cameras for documenting (yes I have more than three cameras, it's a sickness). My DSLR of course, my phone camera, and also my Instax Mini 25. I used each one for different purposes.

I'm a confirmed Instagram freak, so of course my phone camera was a must. I really use Instagram the way it was originally intended, sharing moments with family and friends, and so I took photos of things along the way that I knew others would want to see, and moments that struck a cord with me and I wanted to document right there. Here are some examples.

My first photo after we arrived and were having a snack at a sidealk cafe

Kieran collecting shells on the beach

A shot of breakfast one morning

A shot from the flower market, which I took especially for a friend who loves gardening.

I will probably scrap some of these photos in my Project Life album, and even on layouts, but for me sharing photos on Instagram with a caption is also a way of documenting life.

I used my DSLR to get higher quality photos for my main scrapbook albums. And also because I love photography and a vacation is a great time to get some photography practice in.

With my DSLR I am somewhat removed from the action, and I am taking photos more at a distance, and with a wider view. (With my camera phone, I tend to be closer in taking photos of the details.)

I used that last photo on my page for this month's gallery.

I brought along the Instax Mini because I wanted to use the photos to make a mini book. I figured that it would be something I could quickly complete, without having to think about downloading and editing or resizing photos.

I'm so glad I did, because I love how the beach photos look in this format. I'm making a super simple mini-album with them. Just photos + words.

So the next time you're heading off on vacation, or even a day trip, think about how you want to document the trip. You don't have to take multiple cameras like I did, maybe just an Instant camera or a camera phone would do?

 

One Event, Many Layouts

Hello everyone! Happy summer to you all! It's Aliza here today. I have a quick little tip for you today. I often find that after a nice busy day, when lots happened, and many photos were taken, I have way more stories than I can comfortably fit on a page. Or even a two-page spread (and I am way out of practice on those, anyway.) So, I have given myself permission to create several pages, each one with its own little moment to capture.

Mother's day was one of those days this year. 

First, I just loved this photo of me and my boys. I let myself make a layout with no story at all. Just a big photo, and the date:

Then there was how story of how the day came together, what we did, what see saw, and how we felt while we were there:

And then I had another little detail of the day. It's about turtles, of all things. I wanted to include many of those photos too. So that little detail got its own page, as well:

Here's to a summer filled with  big stories and little stories, and may we have time and energy to tell them.

 

Sunday Photo + Words

Sketchbook Saturday

 

Apparently I was wrong last week about thinking that all the schools were out. Now, I think they nearly all are! Let's celebrate with a new sketch. Something to help you get a page done quickly and easily. Something that can be dressed up or scaled down. 

This week, I picked a layout with just one photo. When I saw Laura's layout, I sighed with love.

Maybe it is the lovely square center. Or perhaps the hanging bulbs. Or maybe the transparent title rectangles. Or maybe just the easy simplicity of it all. Or maybe all of the above. :) No matter the reason, it just had to find it's way into a sketch and into a layout for me.

 

Here is how the sketch turned out.

 

And here is how my layout turned out. I am so happy with it!

I can't wait to see the layouts you make with it!

And don't forget, if you would prefer a layered digital template, you may get one for a mere 99 cents for a limited time! Just click below!

I hope that you enjoy the sketch and that it helps you make a layout or two! Happy Saturday!