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):
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.