My first Traveler's Notebook | Embrace the journey | Journals For Life DT

Hello everyone!! So, I was completely nervous about this. I had played with TN’s in the past, but just for my own eyes and no one else’s. But really, I had decided not to even try because I do more traditional 12x12 layouts more. But man, do I love playing in a TN, planner, making mini albums and playing with mixed media and I rarely share much of it. But I got the awesome opportunity to be on this great team, Journals For Life and I thought, well maybe this is a sign lol. Yeah, sometimes I am that person. But I’m glad I did it and that the owner took the chance on me. I wanted to share my progression in my real first TN and I wanted to share it with y’all too. The cover is really basic, not a ton to it. But I wanted to keep it that way for the beginning of 2022. I’m trying to look on the bright side and hope to enjoy whatever journey 2022 takes me and my family on.

I loved the washi that came in the kit and had to use it. I am a coffee-aholic lol. I had to use that, cause there will be a lot of coffee in 2022, just as there has been in the past! I used that pretty heart from the kits ephemera pack and pulled the phrase sticker and the number stickers from my stash and that was that. Cover done.

I moved to the inside. Now before I started, I did my best not to look at anymore TN’s because I didn’t want to be influenced by anyone else’s designs. But I had seen plenty on Instagram, Pinterest and more lol. But I made it a point not to go looking for them. I knew I wanted a little pocket on my inside cover to store extra tags, this way I didn’t have to go looking when I was in the process of playing, and I wanted a place to put some other item I may not want to put on a page. I ran a die through my sizzix and popped my pocket on the inside page, drew a little line on the edges and poured out the ephemera to add something to the pocket. I cut out a circle, popped a little label through the center and then added that pretty little butterfly in the center. On the first page, or title page? IDK, I thought I would try my hand at some lettering and mixing it with some stickers. I also had the bright idea to try and use some of my vellum as a tag, not sure it was the best idea, but it was stuck down, so yeah there it is lol. But I went with heres to a better year, and I so hope it is! I put one of the clear stickers from the kit on a piece of white cardstock, I thought I was going to cut it out, but decided to use a clear epoxy sticker and make a 3D embellishment for this page, yes more coffee lol. I know this really isn’t that much, but I have moved forward and have done some more. I will share more this week and see what y’all think. Do you have any suggestions? Well, I hope you liked what I did and I hope you’ll come back and see what else I come up with! I have to say I think I did a bit better, not to toot my own horn, but I kind of just let go and had some fun and I think the more comfortable I get with it the more I will be happier with it. Make sure to go check out the Journals.For.Life Instagram and blog to see what all the other ladies are going with the kits too!

Hey everyone!

I'm excited to say that I'm a new member of the Fairytale club design team!! I got my first kit the other day and was so happy with it! Everything in it is made so well and the paper is good heavy quality, its all so amazing!

Tonight I shared my first layout on the Fairytale blog and I thought I would share it here too!

Make sure you go the the Fairytale blog and see all the amazing layouts, 6x8 pocket pages, pocket pages and planners that are being made over there!! And keep checking for the sneaks of Junes kit too!!

Today I'm sharing my first layout with the May, Girly and Strong kit! This kit is so beautiful! It was so hard for me to even cut into these papers, but I managed! lol I started going through this kit when I got it and saw all the bows and it made me think of this bow cut-file that I had sitting in my computer and I had never used. I decided to cut that out and started backing some of the bows with the pretty papers.

After I backed the ones I was going to back, I went back through the papers again to find my background papers. Once I chose my background, I adhered the cut-file down, layered a few of the color blocks from the cut apart sheet to my photo and popped it up on some 3D foam.

I added one of the pretty wooden paperclips to the top left of the photo. Then I broke into the ephemera die-cut pack and started on my embellishment clusters

I usually add at least 3 embellishment clusters around my layout. I don't always fallow that rule, the visual triangle rule, but I do find myself doing that quite a bit. I added some pretty sequins for some bling and was done.

I had a blast making this layout and cant wait to break into the next one! 

Lets go explore / Pretty Little Studio DT

Morning everyone!! Sarah here to share another layout made with some awesome Pretty little Studio collections. I've been on a bit of a kick creating boy layouts lately. I love my pretty little girl ones with flowers, pink and all but I enjoy the change up.

With this layout I'm featuring stickers. 

I played with my stickers in a few different ways, well I used them like you would any other sticker, by just sticking them to the page,lol, I made a little epoxy flair with one of the gold camera stickers and I used a whole sheet of the mini Alphas for a layer in my layout. And on top of that I ended up layering part of my title, that was a sticker lol, over the sheet of them.

I started on the left side of my layout with the cute cloud paper, Seattle, I started layering behind my photo, added some tags, labels and it still was missing something so thats when I decided to add the sheet of stickers behind my photo. I loved the way it looked, its a pretty color and I love the little letters as another layer. After that I added a few cut-files from the cut shoppe, a few more stickers and cut out a few of the clouds from the Seattle paper, added some thread behind the lovely flair. 

Pretty Little Studio products used:

Lets go travel collection: Let's Go 8x8 paper pack, Seattle 8x8, Yellowstone 8x8, Cheyenne Shipping tags, Tiny ABC Ocean Blue, Weekend Gold Metallic vellum stickers, Fresno Flair, Anchorage 8x8, Chicago 8x8 , London 8x8, France Frames