Hello Time | Michaels Make Every Moment Count Traditional Scrapbook Layout
Last week Katie and I took a little field trip over to Michael's to pick up some products to participate in their Make Every Moment Count Challenge.
This month they are offering a variety of sales and discounts on memory keeping products in celebration of Scrapbook Month. You can grab a coupon packet in the store.
Here's what I came home with:
Of course I found lots of fun things I wanted to play with - it's not hard. I was especially excited about those Brilliance inks. They are awesome little ink pads. I also got pretty excited about those giant MAMBI silver glitter alphabet stickers.
I got stuck for awhile in the specialty paper section - specifically the gold and silver - and ended up using the silver sequin paper on my layout.
Here's a look at the page I put together:
I started with a white 12 inch x 12 inch background piece of cardstock and printed my two photos to 5 inch x 5 inch.
And man, can I tell you that I spent way too much time today trying to get the color right on the photograph of my layout above? No matter what I did it kept turning out with that gray-ish/green-ish tint. Color-correction master I am not but I think you get the idea.
After that I cut some of the specialty paper (cork, burlap, and silver glitter) to 5 inch x 5 inch to start creating my accent blocks. From there I played around with placement.
I trimmed the cork paper after adhering the silver glitter Thickers from American Crafts. I used the Smash label maker to create the "then and now" and "yesterday" and "today" labels. I adhered the burlap with some Scotch rolling adhesive and then ran the whole thing through my sewing machine.
In the center of my page I added a Martha Stewart kraft oval sticker + one of the cork letter stickers from Little Yellow Bicycle + two silver mini brads. That whole piece got popped up with some foam sqaures.
On the bottom left square I hand-cut out the word love from the silver sequin paper (probably my favorite thing here). On top of the "o" I added a red star embellishment. Along the top of the cork paper I added "so much" using the Little Yellow Bicycle letter stickers. I love how it looks like it was cut with a Silhouette.
Around the edge of the layout I added my journaling and use ColorBox Cranberry ink to stamp two of my stamps from Technique Tuesday: Super Fantastic and All My Love.
Big thanks to Michael's for including me in their challenge!
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This is beautiful. Reminds me of your earlier Simon layouts, yet it is totally new.
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You are an amazing and talented woman! Michael's should sponsor you as I am sure everyone will be running to the specialty section now! I know I am just waiting for them to open! :)
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I think I would just die if I walked into my Michael's and found you there!
Love what you did with all those goodies.
Truly inspired, once again.
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awesome layout! i have been making layouts now and again because i miss the creativity of making them while doing PL...i put them in my PL album...there's nothing like a blank piece of 12x12 cardstock to make me smile..
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This layout is absolutely beautiful, Ali. You did a great job with all of those elements. I have some of those papers, but just haven't figured out a good way to use them. Thanks for the inspiration!
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OH man that sequins paper! Makes me want to leave work right now and go get me some! =)
Can't wait for your class! It looks amazing!
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All right Ali. I have been having terrible trouble with my Epsom printer as well. My pictures come out super red and pinkish, almost neon! Can you help me.? I have no idea what to do! And have tried everything I know to do. Thanks.
By the way I LOVE. the layout. The texture is awesome and I am totally into gold and silver too! Love that we can use that on boy layouts!:). Thanks for all the inspiration! Heading to Michael's soon!!:)
In general my photos come out fine - even these look fine in person. It was after I took a picture of the layout that I couldn't get the color right. Go figure.
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Love this!
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I needed this inspiration to get "back to basics" and create some good old fashioned layouts!
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Crazy about the sequin paper too!!!
Your page looks FAB:-)
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Love it! So inspiring :o)
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Love the cork and all the dimension and texture overall on the layout. I just used a piece of cork on a layout over the weekend to simulate a school bulletin board with enamel dots to emulate push pins. It made me happy. :-) Happy Tuesday!
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Love this! Didn't know Michaels carried those specialty papers, great find! I love the simplicity of your process, yet it comes out looking so "designed".
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Awesome! Love the corka and love love love that sequin paper! Hope mine has it
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Wow, that is a fantastic layout!
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So cute! I'm loving the cork!
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So cute, love seeing your layouts! I myself can get stuck in the paper section at Michael's too, such a good selection!!
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Love the layout. Love that Michael's has really upped its game in terms of scrapbooking supplies too!
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This is gorgeous! Did you use the silhouette to cut the sequin paper or did you do that by hand? I would worry about the silhouette getting caught on all the texture so I'm always scared to use very textured papers in it.
By hand. I wouldn't put that paper in the Silhouette.
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I want to go shopping with you... and then you can come over to my house and play! Thanks Ali. I am headed to Michael's.
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I totally thought the cork WAS cut with your silhouette, how funny!!! I saw that and was totally thinking about ways to use the PL 4x6 cards I've gotten off of the silhouette store that have the words on top like that. I don't like using them for journaling, they always look too blah to me, so adding that big sequin word onto it really got me inspired!
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fun to see the sparkles in action - would never pick those up and yet they look so dang cute! Always fun to see what you come up with!
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Looks awesome! So fun to handcut elements for pages like that! Looks like you got an awesome haul from there too, and the papers really are awesome!
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I'm with Alishia, I want to come over and play...just beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you imagine, I would pee my pants if I ran into you at Michaels,,,LOVE Michaels:)
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I'm with Lisa and Alishia above, would love to run into you there. How awesome that you came home with all these goodies and made a COOL layout. Oh man is Simon growing up, no more little boy face. I love Michaels too, could spend hours in there and come home with a cart full.
LOVE LOVE the layout and the photo looks good to me. Thanks for the inspiration!
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