An Adventurous Layout

Good morning, folks, it's Susie here today and I have a 12" layout to show you.  It's been a wee while since I've done this size of layout, but I decided that I had too many photos to include to make a smaller layout!

So, I started with a 12" piece of green card and gathered all of the green card and journalling bits from Sarah's A Few of My Favourite Things Kits.  (Outdoors and nature seemed to demand green backgrounds!!)  I loved the "Life is a Wonderful Adventure" card and wanted that to be my centre piece.  I cut out the ends of the banner with a craft knife so that I could layer my photos behind the banner, like so:

There is also a strip of the green leaf card and some of the Snip and Stick leaves added to my layout.   Also included in the kit was this fantastic checklist banner:

I decided to secure it with a couple of eyelets as I thought that it suited the theme.  But, if you decide to curl the banner to add dimension, like I did, its best to wait until your ink has actually dried, otherwise you leave smudges, doh!!!!!

I added a little journalling to complete the memories but refrained from adding any other items to my already rather busy page.

Have a lovely day, folks.

Susie x 

The Little Book of #Dogstagram

Hello there, how are you?

Happy Bank Holiday Monday!!

It's Claire S here with a mini book, I don't usually do mini books, I tend to get stuck about half way through, I think I've got about 7 unfinished ones knocking about somewhere, but last year Sarah sent me one of her daybooks and I thought, "oooh", then I thought "aah" an idea had formed, then I thought, "I need photos" so that was that for a while, anyhow, a couple of weeks ago I had all of the photos I needed so I grabbed my big box of Sarah stash and got to work and here it is....

Bailey's #dogstagram Book....

I wanted to keep a similar style throughout the book so that it all went together well, so for each page I used a small amount of Sarah's patterned papers, a selection of journaling cards from Sarah's kits and her Everyday Sayings stamp set...

I also wanted to use my Instagram photos of Bailey so that all the photos would be the same size and shape (I really do have OCD issues lol)

The journaling on each page tells the story from Bailey's point of view, and he thought that "I'm Bailey the Dog & this is my story" was a good place to start.

Bailey was pretty befuddled on his first day in his new home, which is to be expected and he was only 8 weeks old but he was very interested in what was going on, he couldn't work out what the squeaky burger was all about though... "my first day in my new home, my new family have given me a burger that squeaks"

I can't believe how tiny he was in that doggy bed, within weeks he'd outgrown it then chewed it to pieces., He was also the same size as his bear - which has since been chewed to pieces. 

I've used various stickers and Thickers for my titles on all of the pages.

As you can see in the next picture this puppy likes to sleep, he found a spot in the corner by my chair - "I found a quiet corner to curl up and snooze in, I was snoozing in mums knitting bag on the cardigan she was knitting but she moved the bag so I couldn't climb into it anymore" And the the sneaky boy made himself at home on the sofa.

This next page is one of my favourite pages in the album, these are 2 of my top ten Bailey photos and the "For the love of Bacon" stamp is pretty appropriate, although I do know that it wasn't bacon he'd just eaten. The journaling reads " I don't know what that was I just ate, but it sure was tasty"

The naughty pup also has a thing for peoples slippers, these ones belonged to Hubs (please note use of the word belonged - the slippers have since been chewed to pieces - there seems to be a theme here) 

One thing Bailey is good at is posing, but he refuses to look at the camera... "I will sit like a good boy whilst you take my photo but I'm not going to look at the camera"

I hope you've enjoyed browsing through my mini book, I'll be back with the second half of it on 31st August.

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you again soon.

Claire xx