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Life Right Now


Recently I saw a post on WriteClickScrapbook.com about occasionally doing a layout about your life right now.  I liked that idea, but hadn’t gotten around to scrapping it.  Then today At the Big Idea Festival over at BigPictureScrapbooking.com the challenge by Karen Grunberg was to make a layout about life right now.  Hmmmm, seems like maybe this is something I should do.  🙂 The inspiration layout was one page and used much smaller pics.  Since I was using 2 pages I decided to do 2×3 pics.  There are a lot of them on this layout…can you tell?  🙂 I cut 1 inch strips of patterned paper and punched them with my border punch (I’ve got to get some more of those). I made a list about things that have been going on in our lives over the past few months.  I decided to write my journaling on a scrap of vellum.  I put a piece of notebook paper behind the vellum as I was writing my journaling.  I chose to highlight certain words by changing the font color. I used a butterfly punch and layered two butterflies on top of one another for depth.  I then put a dot of glue to stick them down before stitching them on. I have never stitched on a page before.  I had a lot of fun using different stitches on the layout. Rather than using one color of thread for the whole layout I decided to use tone on tone.  Each of the strips of patterned paper has stitching on it.  I really went all out. It’s hard to see the title in this picture, but I love it in person.  Some of the words are in silver, the us is acrylic, and the now is chipboard.

“This is Us Right Now”

I love the idea of scrapping about everyday things.  And the opportunity to use pics that I like, but probably wouldn’t scrap otherwise is always fun.

Try making your LRN (Life Right Now) layout.  If you do, link it up for me so I can see! This entry was posted in Layouts and tagged challenge, gray, journaling, stitching. Bookmark the permalink. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.