Practical Scrappers Challenge this week was Stickers- use them up in an unusual way. Well, I have had this vision in my head for a long time so I decided to play along. Now this turned out completely different then I had expected- BUT I am very pleased!! This layout used up a lot of the alphabet stickers I have collected (and I have a lot) and captured my son’s first day of school outfit perfectly!!My journaling describes how he wanted a puffy vest while we were in the mall looking at school clothes. I had no idea what he meant and kept showing him sweater vests and insisting that he must mean one of them. Finally we walked into one store that had what he wanted- he marched up to the rack and said in such a grown up voice- “Now this is what I came to the mall for!”
Here are the details on how I created the background- I collected some stickers (I ended up using almost four sheets of CTMH alpha stickease) that were different fonts and colours. I then stuck them on the background paper working from the bottom corner up and out. I made sure to mix up sizes, styles and direction for a fun look.
Once I completed that I picked my ink colour (Grey Wool) and got out my rubber brayer- then I inked up and got braying!!
This is a close up of the main focal area- and my title “Vest is Best”- I worked it into the sticker background and highlighted it with liquid glass so that it sticks out but does not compete too much with my busy page!
Until we craft again, The Brae-er
This is such a creative use of the stickers!
What a great layout love that you showed how you did the background.
What a great way to use alpha stickers – TFS!
Great job on using up your extra stickers!
Love this!
Cute!
This was such an AWESOME layout! Wow! All the time that went into it really paid off – I will definitely have to be borrowing this in the future! Thanks for joining the challenge at Practical Scrappers!