Admission: I've been feeling like I haven't really hit a stride yet with this project. I'm still stretching; warming up. From the very minimal to what I felt was slightly forced and overdone the next day.
What to do? Yesterday Ali suggested there were some nice layouts this month in the designer garden at Two Peas, so off I went seeking inspiration. Within minutes I found this charming layout by Jennifer Johner. I love her generous use of white space coupled with plenty of fun tactile bits triangulated across the page; the use buttons and thread in particular.
Today I present my verson of Jennifer's design. A knock-off if you will; referred to as "lifting" (as in someone's wallet?) in the scrapbook world. It's the Prad-O (not Prada) bag from a street vendor, but borrowing this design from Jennifer has me feeling invigorated, if slightly disingenuous. I don't think I've ever done that before. Not in such a direct manner at least.
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The blurry photo is the best I got ... that's just the type of night it was. The background is a subtle half-tone vintage ledger printed on Bazzill Basics swiss dot (thought that would work with the financial references in my journaling.) Red patterned paper (left) and green floral swirl from the Holly Jolly Pack, green ribbon (right), is from the Christmas ribbon brushes, Vintage santa postage., Vintage penmanship elements, and assorted tapes. Silver # 3: Paper Valise. The red flower brad is from assortment pack I've had for a while. Abalone buttons from years of collecting garment extras.
I knew I wanted to use some hand-stitching in my DD this year, so these shiny buttons just felt right.
In years to come my family won't look at this page and know it was someone else's design, they'll only know it captures the mood of our outing pretty well. But for now, I'm grateful to Jennifer Johner (whom I'm very happy to discover) for sharing her concept and talent.
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