Inspiration: Page Maps June 2018
While looking through my papers recently, I spotted the Sasparilla collection from October Afternoon (2011) and thought it would be cool used to scrapbook my Big Thunder Mountain pictures, so I had put it aside. I pulled it back out today and made a page based on a Page Maps sketch.
This all went fairly smoothly. I started by working on my title. I wanted bold letters, so I looked through my Tim Holtz Bigz Alphabet dies and picked Handmade and Wonderland. I cut the letters I needed out of chipboard. I wanted to use my Distress Oxide inks to cover the chipboard but I spotted my ColorBox chalk mini inkpads and decided to test them out. The colours and coverage was perfect so I used Warm Red and Chestnut Roan. I am really impressed by those inkpads. They were purchased well over a decade ago and it never crossed my mind at the time to invest in reinkers, so I keep expecting for the inkpads to go dry at some point, but they are still as inky as the day I got them. Which is lucky, because ColorBox has since gone out of business, so I will not be able to reink those pads. I also used those same ink pads to stamp the stars you see spread throughout the layout, using the Simply Stars stamp set. The result is very crisp and even.
I wanted the first word to be even bigger, so I used the Big Letters dies from Stampin' Up! I layered three layers of thick cardstock and added patterned paper over it. I liked the pattern I had picked but didn't think it stood out enough so I remembered a tip seen in a video recently, where the scrapper edged her letters using the tip of a dark marker. I did that on all of my letters, including the ones colored with ink. This step was pretty time-consuming, but it made a big difference in the end result.
I used the File Folder Edges dies on the left side of the ledger paper. I also found the Mini Fringe die while I was looking for the file folder dies and thought I could make some tassels for the page. I ended up adding them at the very end, to the ends of a piece of twine cord. I wasn't sure where I'd add the tassels, possibly hanging from the side of a patterned paper, but I ended up adding the cord over the top of the page, lasso-style.
I also wanted to use the stickers from the paper collection and discovered that the boy and the girl were quite big, but I liked that the lasso happened to fall right over the title, so I slid some of the letters under the sticker. I used the cacti to add to the scene, as well as some of the matching mini flags I had on hand.
Supplies
Stamps: This and That Date Stamp, Simply Stars (Stampin' Up!)
Patterned Papers, Word Stickers, Little Flyers: Sasparilla (October Afternoon)
Ink: Warm Red, Lime Pastel, Prussian Blue, Olive Pastel, Creamy Brown,
Chestnut Roan ColorBox Fluid Chalk (Clearnsnap)
Dies: Mini Fringe, File Folder Edges (My Favorite Things); Big Letters (Stampin' Up!);
Handmade Alphabet, Wonderland Alphabet (Tim Holtz for Sizzix)
Accessories: Fuzzy Brad, Metal Brad (Making Memories);
Twine Cord (Stampin' Up!)
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