Everyday You and Me

I just realized that I never got this layout posted - and it's one of my favorites!  I made it in the middle of February.  

I think this was the first scrapbooking layout I've made using Stampin' Up! products.  Oh, wow!  So much easier than the HOURS I used to spend looking through papers and cardstock in my stash trying to find things that went together well and worked with my photos!  I had purchased the Everyday You and Me papers with sticker sheet, and the coordinating set of 12 x 12 cardstock (unfortunately no longer available), and it was so easy to pull together what I needed!

I used a sketch from the first volume of the Creative Design Team 12 x 12 Sketchbooks that I bought.  Though I modified it, the sketch was a great place to start.  Everything came from the papers, sticker sheet, and coordinating cardstock EXCEPT my pictures/title/journaling and the floral embellishments. 

The floral embellishments were created using the Extraordinary Flora Washi Tape and matching dies.  I adhered the washi tape to white cardstock and die cut a bunch of them.  There are really two color families of these on the washi tape roll.  The greenery with the purplish colors went really well - but the flowers were pink and purple!  NO PROBLEM.  I simply pulled out my Stampin' Blends markers and changed the colors to more of an orange hue!

Here's a closeup of each page:

Here's the left page.  I love what looks like triple matting on it.  However, the truth is that I printed my photos such that I could cut a white border around them - then just added two more layers of matting.  For this page, I changed the position of the title and embellishing - and did my matting differently, but the the main part of the layout is based on the sketch.  I just pulled together a variety of those die cut floral and colored floral pieces to create clusters in the top left and bottom right corners.  All of the photos, are actually flip flaps.

Here you can see the flip flap open on the focal photo.

 

And here you can see it with all flip flaps open.

 

And here's the right page.  As you can see, I created another floral cluster in the center of this grid, on top of matted pecan pie cardstock.  The words "happiness" and "story of today" came from the sticker sheet, though I cut the trimmed the end of the word "happiness" to come to a point like that.  As you can see, on the right side of the grid pattern, I combined the grid to make one long photo and journaling block.  I like the way that turned out.

Oh yes.  No paper or cardstock was wasted here!  I carefully cut the center of each and inlayed each in the outside piece of the other - carefully taping it in place.  SO - I used ONE page of the patterned paper.  I used a bit more of the Pretty Peacock cardstock because I also matted other photos, but only one sheet was used for the background of the left and the grid mat of the right.  

Before I know it, this album will be completed!