As much as I jump around from subject to subject and year to year. I also seem unable to remain within one "style" of scrapping. I can be perfectly enamored with lots of white space and minimal embellishments one week and the next be over the top for sticking on a stack of embellishments. (Which is where we are at today; stuff, lots and lots of stuff.)
When I saw some a couple of packs of very dimensional birthday embellishments at Michaels, I just loved them and snatched them right up. As it turns out, the paper rosettes, title banner, party hat and happy birthday sticker (part of the two different embellishment packs I grabbed) were re-branded Recollections, but are in fact part of the Party Day Maggie Holmes collection (no wonder I loved them). I already had the ephemera pack (snared at Hobby Lobby weeks and weeks earlier) and sometime later I lucked into finding the Party Day paper pad on clearance.
Now, with all this Party Day stuff collected I sat down to make Bella's party page. Used two different background pieces, the diagonal red and pink stripe and the grid paper. Prior to this I had stacked up and stapled together little piles of the flat ephemera, so I just tucked a couple of the piles in and around the photos. I added the rosette and the party hat and then the banner title, which kind of gave me fits. I mean that part should have been easy, peas-y. But the title looked flat, so I cut out an extra sunburst layer for each of the letters and popped every other one up. The sticker letters are from Echo Park, Little Girl sticker sheet and I think the party, play-fun day piece is from Heidi Swapp, but otherwise everything is Party Day.
Where am I going with all this? Well, there is a lotta, lotta of stuff on this page, lots more than I usually use. So just when I think I have myself figured out style-wise, um, not so much. I guess we'll just go with it and see where we end up.
see where you end up, surprise!
Cheryl
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