I'm still powering away on the layout challenge! At this rate I'll have filled the girl's 20-page album by the end of the week and I'll have to get some more pockets for it! My layout tally so far is eight layouts (in five days) using twenty-one photos. I'm trying to get at least two photos on each page...
I decided to make a page in matching colours... I've never stapled ribbon before but it came out cute. A few of the title letters are hard to read because they're shiny, but it's 'Lady of Leisure' and I managed to use a different 'font' for every letter.
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Cardstock-only layout. I decided to colour-block this one and it was really fun to make... I didn't specially cut ANY of those squares/triangles etc - I had a baggie of shapes left over from making a rainbow border for a page swap, and I used a lot of them up on this LO...
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Cuddle time (layout with foam stamps) - I don't actually OWN any foam stamps, so I improvised. I stuck two large foamy shapes back to back and used them to stamp the flowers... then I cut myself a little foamy teardrop-shaped leaf shape, and finished off with a round center to the flowers. I almost never crop photos into shapes, but these were a natural - the background was just a boring blank wall and it fitted them onto the page better to crop around our outlines. (besides, that way you can see more of the stamped background I went to all that trouble to make!
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