Mamarazzi

Snapshots

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Do you ever use a sketch for inspiration? They are a wonderful tool, especially if you feel you’ve hit a crafting rut. Last month, I participated in the final crop for the VIP group of Creative Scrapbooking Magazine. It was bittersweet to say goodbye to such a fabulous group of creatives. But it was a fabulous crop, hosted by Simply Stated Design, a wonderful Canadian company! One challenge was to create a layout for the crop using the provided sketch.

I immediately recognized that I owned patterned paper from Mintay Papers that would work perfectly with this sketch. This gorgeous camera lens paper is paper number 2 in the Photographer collection. It became the large circle found in the sketch. This paper really provided the heavy lifting for this layout. From there, I added three photos from our trip to Mostar last fall. Mostar, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and its bridge, Stari Most, are popular tourist destinations. It is a rebuilt 16th-century Ottoman-era bridge. The photo of the bridge deserved to take a central place in my layout. It was added to the layout with a piece of fun foam to add dimension and focus.

I used ephemera from the Photographer collection to complement the design. The female photographer and the slide frame were both inked around the edges using Altenew Ink for added dimension. Next, I slid the photographer behind the slide, making sure to keep her hat outside of the frame. I added the ‘captured moments’ phase to the bottom of the slide and sourced it from the paper stickers in the Photographer collection. Next, I added this grouping to the bottom-right portion of the lens.

The cameras and slide cluster of ephemera are a mix of 2 Mintay Papers collections: Photographer and Mamarazzi. The cameras were placed on fun foam to add further dimension.This cluster of elements was placed in the top-left corner of the lens.


The title for the layout, Snapshots, came from the Mamarazzi Die-cuts collection. It was also adhered with small pop dots.

The final elements included adding the location and date to the layout. All of these elements were completed using Doodlebug Designs Puffy Alphabet Stickers in Mint. I adhered all of them in the layout using the curve of the camera lens as a guide.

This layout came together so quickly, thanks to the sketch as my guide. The camera lens really draws your attention to the beautiful pictures from our trip. I’m very pleased with the final result. Thanks for stopping by today. Until next time, stay safe, stay well, and Happy Scrapping!

This Life

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With Spring finally arriving it seemed an appropriate time to share this double-page layout. We have had cool and rainy days in our neck of the woods for weeks. The grass is finally growing again, and so are the dandelions! Every time I look out the window, and see the dandelions growing, I am reminded of this very special day in my life. My sweet grandson Ben, just 2 at the time, rang my doorbell holding a bouquet of dandelions. Imagine my delight, a special bouquet picked just for me! But as life would have it, that isn’t quite how the story ended.

Here’s the story I journaled on this layout: “Ben – today you showed up with some beautiful flowers you had picked in the park. Nana, these are for you!!! But as you began to hand them over, you quickly snatched them back. No, Nana – I’m going to take these home!!!” Well, either way, you made my day! I knew this precious memory needed to be documented for prosperity.

I chose the gorgeous Mamarazzi paper, cardboard stickers and paper die-cuts from Mintay Papers to document this memory. The specific papers used in this collection were numbers 02 and 04. The combination of the yellow florals and cameras made it an instant hit with me. I was attracted to the frames used in these papers and utilized them to highlight my pictures. Several elements from the paper die-cut package were added, some with a layer of fun foam to add dimension and texture.

I kept all the embellishments to a minimum. I did not want to distract from this beautiful background paper. A couple of floral clusters were added to enhance the right-hand page. Phrases from the cardboard stickers were included on both pages of the layout. And the title “This Life” and all remaining embellishments were added using Vicki Boutin’s “Stories of US” Thickers from her Fernwood collection. The date was added using Paige Evan’s “Happy Life” Thickers.

The Mamarazzi paper collection is highly versatile. I have used other papers in the collection to document some of our travel pictures and will share them with you at a future date.

Thanks for stopping in today, I hope my precious memory has provided you with a little laugh and made you smile. Until next time, stay safe, stay well, and Happy Scrapping!