November Studio AE from Technique Tuesday Blog Hop

Happy Saturday and welcome to another Studio AE Blog Hop!

This month's stamp set is Memories of Home by Ali Edwards.

This month I used several of the stamps from the set to create a "polaroid style" layout featuring some recent favorite memories and stories of my family's home life. 

I took advantage of the Dear Lizzy patterned paper design and simply "filled in" the pre-printed polaroid frames with 1.75" square photos, journaling, stamping and embellishments.

I combined a couple of the greetings on my acrylic block to stamp my page title, "The Story of Home" in one of the frames.

I ended up incorporating lots of little bits and pieces from Studio Calico kits for my embellishments. I actually just went through all my past kits and took all the small embellishments (anything that wasn't a sticker sheet) and placed them in a divided plastic storage box for ease of use. I found that although I enjoy keeping my SC kits together in a single box, I was forgetting about a lot of those fun little bits and pieces that come in the monthly kits. I think I will remember to use them more this way!

The darling little house stamp in this month's Studio AE stamp set is among one of my favorites. I just love the sweet little imperfect heart in the center. It was a perfect "frame" for a Studio Calico wood veneer heart!

I stamped each house using a different color of ink on a seperate piece of paper, cut them out and adhered them inside the polaroid frames using foam adhesive. Then I glued a SC heart in the center of each.

I thought the cute little MME enamel dots made for fun "smoke" coming out of the chimneys of the houses. :)

I numbered each of my photos and arranged the journaling by row so that I could break it down into little bits that coordinated back to the photos in each row and keep with the design and feel of the page.

SUPPLIES (click on photos for links):

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Other Supplies:

• Resin Flowers, vellum word bubble, die cut tabs and sequins (Studio Calico monthly kits)

Be sure to check the blogs of all taking part in the Blog Hop today:

• Kimberly Crawford, our guest for November
• Ashley Harris
• Ali
• Daniela
• Nichol <------- you are here
• Sharyn
• Laura
• Teri

PRIZES

We’ll pick one person from all the comments made during the hop to win a $25 gift certificate to TechniqueTuesday.com.

Tune into the Technique Tuesday blog  on Nov.13th to see if you are one of the lucky winners.

 

Comments

[Hannah Mize]

I love this layout!

[Torm]

I absolutely love what you did with the set/paper. I *had* that paper - ended up cutting mine into pieces. I thought I wanted more of it before - now I KNOW I do!

[Isabel]

Great Layout! I miss your videos...

[Mary Anne Perlmutter]

This layout is so universal. I can see me playing with this for hours. So very cute!

[shannon Stout]

I love how unique your layout is! LOVE that stamp set.

[Ruth G]

Love your idea! What a great way to scrap old pictures that might not be very large and have a faded look! The colors and design are just right as are the sweet houses and sentiments! Thanks so much for sharing!

[Jill]

Absolutely adorable layout and I hope you are ok if I totally scraplift it sometime soon! I miss your videos and hope that you can make a few soon. Your process for picking paper/embellishments/stamps has been a huge inspiration to me and has helped my scrapbooking evolve. Thanks for being so awesome :)

[Marilyn Nimmo]

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this. I love the grid design and all of the cute little elements you added. FAUBLOUS!

[Jamie Greene]

I love your layout Nichol! Your work is always beautiful and inspiring:)

[deb pereira]

Such a great idea for using grid paper. Definately will need to lift that idea! Thanks for sharing.

[Linda Stewart]

Great work. I love all of the details that make the page interesting & unique. Thanks for sharing.

[indy]

What a fabulous layout! I just love it!!!

[maria f.]

What a great LO - and the use of Ali's great sentiment stamp. Perfect.

[Jennifer B.]

awesome page! love it!

[Karly lakesidekb]

I love how you used the enamel dots as chimney smoke! Very cute!

[Lynn M]

Lovely layout. The use of the enamel dots is darling as well as the Dear Lizzy paper.

[teri]

Bowing ...
oh yes I am ....
to your stamping/crafting/scrapping greatness. :)
HOLY moley, my friend.
AMAZING page!!!!!
Makes me just sit at the computer and stare in awe.

[L]

Love how you incorporated past embellishments and added details, you are always very inspiring.

[Anita J.]

What a clever use of that paper. Awesome layout ... every bit of it!

[Gayle P]

Wow! The way you incorporated the stamp set into your layout and into the polaroid designs is awesome, it looks so cohesive!

[Lynn]

I love what you did here, this is super cute! Love how you used the paper.

[Cassie]

Oh My Gosh - I love this! I'm really starting to love that little house stamp.

[Cynthia B.]

I think the enamel dot "smoke" coming out of the stamped houses are the perfect touch! Great layout, as always. :)

[PaperPixie]

Oh my gosh this is amazing! I love the idea of using the paper this way, and all the tiny details are delicious. I neeeeed some enamel dots. :)

[Mendi Yoshikawa]

I love this! Your use of the stamp set is perfect and I love how you used the polaroids for the background. I had plans to do a similar type layout with Simple Stories new Snap papers and it's fun seeing it done. I also love the softness of your layout and the little enamel dots for your chimney smoke! :)