I made this page to record something my almost 3-year-old niece that made me smile. Her older sister was looking at family portraits and said, "This one is pretty good, except that Arielle has red eyes on it." Arielle, who apparently doesn't understand yet what "red eyes" are referring to in pictures quickly went on to correct her big sister: "My eyes are not red, they are blue." I picked a picture of her taken previously that shows her pretty blue eyes and some papers in blue hues. I picked an older Echo Park collection (from 2017) called A Perfect Winter.
Since I was only working with one picture and short journaling, I decided to add a page to my planner scrapbook. This also gave me the chance to use some of the most recent Elizabeth Craft Designs Planner Essentials dies that were added to the line. I purchased the Wave Pocket and I was curious to see how it would look. This is a great die to use with double-sided patterned paper. You will need to add it to a full page, unless you want it to just be a stand-alone pocket. Here, I used the full page with no tabs from the Planner Essentials 4 set. I used the larger tag die from the Wave Pocket set to die-cut my picture and slid it into the shortest pocket. Then, I used the tag from the Planner Essentials 7 set for my journaling block. It was too large, though, so I cut a strip off each side to make it narrower (therefore eliminating the holes as well), so it would fit into the top pocket. I added a scalloped rectangle in a lighter colour that I could handwrite my journaling on, and I used the trees from the Planner Essentials 12 set to embellish the tag. I added patterned paper to the bottom and punched the edge with the Snowflake Edger border punch.
I really wanted to use some of the fun embellishments from the #4 set (the photo frame and the camera) so I added the bear sticker from the collection to a patterned paper, backed the words on the frame with wooden-patterned paper and glued the frame over the image, then cut to size. I die-cut the words "[heart] this" (from the Wave Pocket die set) out of white and blue cardstock and red foil sheets) and added everything on top of the polka dot banner.
I was running out of room for a title, so I decided to use the layering tag from the #4 die set to add the title over the page. I'm starting to get the hang of adding layering pieces like this to make mini-albums more interactive and layered. The back was a little too bare, so I filled it with stickers that read Let It Snow. The back of the full page was also lightly embellished with hole reinforcers and a cut-apart that was laying on my desk. This was a fun one to make! You'd think it would be faster with the smaller format, but I ended up doing a lot of die-cutting, so it ended up taking a few hours overall. Still a very big fan of the whole Planner Essentials die collection, as you get so much versatile shapes out of the sets, I keep discovering new ones every time I pull the sets out.
Supplies
Stamps: Type Strips I & II (Papertrey Ink)
Cardstock: Balmy Blue, Whisper White, Night of Navy, Red Foil Sheets,
Silver Glimmer Paper (Stampin' Up!)
Patterned Papers, Stickers: A Perfect Winter (Echo Park)
Ink: Night of Navy (Stampin' Up!)
Dies: Planner Essentials 4, 7, 12, Wave Pocket, Reinforcement Variety Pack (Elizabeth Craft Designs);
Broadway Alphabet Bigz (Tim Holtz for Sizzix); Type Bit Strip (Papertrey Ink);
Stitched So Sweetly (Stampin' Up!)
Accessories: Subtles Enamel Shapes, Stampin' Dimensionals, Cherry Cobbler
Scalloped Tulle, Night of Navy Seam Binding, Pearl Basic Jewels (Stampin' Up!);
Snowflake Edge Punch (EK Success)
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