In today's episode of Saturday Stash Dive, I show you how to make a layout using letters as a mask to create an interesting Title. There is a sketch for this layout and I have the sketch below.
I have used this sketch so many times and I would say that it is my go to sketch. It's very easy to adapt to either a portrait or landscape photo. And it also gives you a lot of options as to where to put your journaling or even your title.
The picture is about how my sister and I had never seen a cactus in the wild (if you call if the wild.) So when we were on our road trip down to the Hoover Dam we stopped off at a lake and we saw one. We just had to get our picture taken. I know it sounds crazy but we have never been any desert type place to see a cactus, so it was very interesting to see one close up. There are very different than what I had pictured.
I used a lot of my older type stash up from stamps to stickers. It was a lot of fun to dive into them to make the layout a fun and playful piece.
Here is the finished layout and the process video is below. Please leave a comment if you have any questions.
In today's video I share with you all of the products I've pulled for the next episode of Saturday Stash Dive. This month's focus has been on letters and for this layout, I plan on making a title using the letters as a mask. Please join me on Saturday July 20, 2013 to see what the final page looks like.
Today is Saturday, you know what that means. Another episode of Saturday Stash Dive where this month's focus is on letters. I must say, I love today's layout. I love how much texture is created by making your own background using up letters.
I used the same color combo as I did for last weeks episode. I love the blue, yellow and black. It's classy, yet energetic. I love it. I must say that I'm not a yellow lover but I could very well turn into one with this combination.
I made fun embellishment clusters, using a stamped image and some photo frame from the Pier collection by Crate Paper. I love those frames and have been dying to get them. A huge thanks to Sandra who sent them to me in a RAK. I also added some black epoxy heart from Close To My Heart and some stickers from On Trend (Crate Paper) and Woodland Park (October Afternoon). With a finishing touch of some star wood vernier and misted butterflies (Studio Calico) I felt that the clusters were finished.
So I realize that I screwed up on the title. It was supposed to say "Friends Forever" but I was tired when I did this layout and ended up putting the title as "Forever Forever." I did make the changes to it after I took the pictures, but I didn't take the pictures after I made the changes. I just thought I would put up the pictures with my error to show you how funny it was.
Here is the finished page. I just love the paper I chose. From the background paper from the DIY Shop (Crate Paper) to the yellow triangle paper from Color and Composition (Webster's Pages). I even dove into my stash really deep and pulled out the blue paper I used for the photo mat. This paper is from Close to My Heart. I have a prep video for all the supplies I used in the video below.
This is the sketch for the layout that I made. Please feel free to use this sketch for your next layout:
Today is Friday. I know I'm late posting the video for the prep video for the next Saturday Stash Dive. But this time it wasn't my fault. I had 3 videos to upload yesterday, and it just seemed to take forever. I'm not sure if it's with the updates that YouTube put in yesterday, or what. But they all were posted early this morning. Below is the products I pulled for the next episode of Saturday Stash Dive. (This month's focus is Letters.)
Please tune in on Saturday July 13, 2013 to see the layout I came up with.
Hi Everyone. It's Saturday, so you know what that means. It's another episode of Saturday Stash Dive. I will be continuing the focus of using 6x6 paper pads on a layout. I did do a prep video for this episode and I was meaning to post it on the blog but somehow I missed doing that. Here is the prep video:
So from the pictures, you can see I definitely went a little out of my comfort zone and tried something completely out of my style. I think it's important to try new things to see if you can incorporate these new techniques into a layout. Although, I'm not too happy with how the page turned out, I love the elements of the page and I think I would try doing this page another way.
I love the colors that I chose for this layout. I just love the soft and light colors and how the pop of Gold Pow Glitter Paper just added some interest to the page. This was my first time trying a Mood Board and I can say, I love it. I love how it can give you a fresh set of eyes to try something new.
I must say the only thing that went terrible wrong with the page was the excessive amount of misting splatters on the left side of the photo. I was trying to do a "Boca" type effect and ended more like a bad paint ball accident. I do love the misting on the right side of the photo. I wish I did that one first, then I would have just left the other side alone.
I have to admit, I am loving this new series. I get so inspired by all of the layouts I see on the 50 Projects Facebook Page. When Tiffany puts of the Motivation Monday, my brain starts spinning as to how I can incorporate that into my Saturday Stash Dive. I love seeing everybody's layouts and cards. It amazes me how everyone's style is so different.
For this weeks SSD, I started by looking for inspiration. I was looking on Printerest and message boards for inspiration but nothing really jumped out and grabbed my attention. It wasn't until I was moving some things around my scrap room where I came upon my binder of Shimelle Lain classes. I just thought for the fun of it I would open the book and just look at the pictures and see if anything spoke to me. Then, there it was. The layout just jumped off of the page and I knew I had to use this design. It was perfect. I loved how you could used several papers so you could get a hint of each pattern. So now I had my plan.
Next came inspiration. It is so true when the say inspiration can happen anywhere and that is exactly what happened. Sandra (ohsnapgonzo on YouTube) and I were having a Skype scrapbook crop one night and I showed her what the modeling paste, that I had made, did. She loved how it got all puffy. Then she said I should do a layout using clouds on the top of a page. So I was keeping this in mind while I was picking my papers.
I chose a paper pad that I purchased from Studio Calico for March, called Neverland. I loved how their was some cloud paper and city skyline paper. Now that I had the paper, I knew what photo I wanted to use. I kept that in the back of my mind while I was pulling the rest of my embellishments. I placed everything down on my desk and then put the picture on top. GENIUS!!!! It looked brilliant!
I couldn't wait to get started, so I got to it right away. The farther into the layout I got, the more awesomer it got. (Awesomer, is that even a word.) I just loved how it turned out.
The process video is below:
Please make sure you leave a comment below for your suggestion for future episodes.
This weeks Saturday Stash Dive was totally inspired by a friend of mine, Sandra who is Ohsnapgonzo on YouTube. We were talking one night on Skype and I was showing here the modeling paste that I had made for my Silhouette Challenge with her. She asked me if I could tint it, so I tried and it looked AMAZING!!! So when I showed her, she said "Lisa, you have to do a layout using that. You need to make clouds." So that's where the whole inspiration for this page came up.....THANK YOU SANDRA!!!! That just goes to prove our late night Skype talks are totally worth it.
Yesterday I started preparing my supplies for my next episode of "Saturday Stash Dive". I pulled one collection 6x6 pad this time. I chose the Studio Calico Neverland pad that was from March. I wanted to make sure all of the papers matched and this was the easiest because Studio Calico has done all of the work for you.
After I chose the 6x6 pad I wanted to pull in some 12x12 papers to coordinate. I knew I was going to use white cardstock as my base so I pulled that out as well. For the 12x12 patterned paper, I pulled a few from Studio Calico and one from Pebbles. I also made sure I pulled a couple of 12x12 papers that have journaling cards on them.
Now for the extras. I knew I wanted to use one of my Las Vegas pictures, so I pulled the Amy Tan Yes Please stamp set. I really love the city skyline stamp and wanted to use it. I then pulled some coordinating inks from Hero Arts in charcoal, tide pool and pale tomato. I then pulled some Washi tape in some coordinating colors. I then went to my stickers and pulled some from October Afternoon and Amy Tan. I have a dish in from of the scrapping area that has a whole bunch of different embellishments like wood vernier, flair, and sequins. I pulled some of these out that I thought would work well. So to tint my clouds, I wasn't sure what color I wanted to use. I pulled Tumbled Glass, Peacock Feathers, and Evergreen Bough Distress Reinkers.
I hope you join me on Saturday, June 15th for the next edition of Saturday Stash Dive.
