Working from a page kit does not necessarily mean everything I package together makes it onto the page. It does mean making good use of what you have, though. Sometimes not a lot makes it onto the page!!
In this case, the only pieces and parts that wound up on the page, were just that,,,pieces and parts. I had envisioned a watercolor background---um no, didn't like that so much. So I snatched a piece from a pad of paper that I was not likely to use and turned it over to use the clean white side.
The bits and pieces that I did use? See that tiny bit of gold thin stripe..yep that's one piece. Then right under that is a small blue patterned paper, and there is the multi-patterned vertical strip. That's pretty much it. The green map paper with "Top Ten" imprinted on it was a 4x6 cut apart in the No Limits paper pad I brought along. The grid at the top and bottom of the page was from the piece that I cut the arrows out of (on yesterday's posted page). And since I liked the "Top Ten" map cut apart, I used a similar paper at the top of the layout--also from the Heidi Swapp No Limits pad.
You see, what I did after packing up page kits...was to also pack a couple of paper pads and packs. One with a definite travel feel (also very masculine), one that is very birthday, party feeling, and another that is very general--but it has a variety of types of patterns--grids, small florals, vintage. All the paper pads had several cut apart sheets in them---the Heidi Swapp on in particular has great words---making it very usable for titles -- like on this page!
The thinking was that even if I did not use the page kit as packed...I could dip into the paper pads and I did! Used the backside of a paper that I thought I would not likely use--just for the clean white unprinted side. And that grid paper; it came from the pad. The repeated the use of the green-ish map paper? From the pad.
Other layering pieces were a leftover piece of another map paper and then vellum and acetate embellishments from one of the few packs I brought along (Boys Rule - Crate Paper).
The alpha stickers are Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type and Basic Grey (I think it was the Printery? or something like that). The alphas I chose to bring along also had to serve multiple themes--masculine, travel and a couple of feminine... Again, the rule being, a select few that are specific and several that are very general (the Tiny Type for example).
So, look for more about how you can pack up your stuff--not bring along the kitchen sink, and still make pages you are happy with.
scrappin' on,
Cheryl
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