Stick It Down April DT Layout (Single Page Team)

Hello Lovelies

It's Stick It Down time once again and can I just say how much I really REALLY loved this month's single page sketch!!  

My first thought was to use a cut file.  Pretty sure there are several out there which have flowers already built into a heart.  I decided instead to roughly machine stitch a heart and fussy cut flowers.

 

The sketch reminded me of a wedding or anniversary layout so I opted to scrap our 20th wedding anniversary, which was a case of Murphy's Law at work if ever I saw one!   Read the journaling! 😂

 

Seriously - you just can't make this stuff up!  And I'm often in these situations so I just laugh about them now.

Embellies

I used the Hello Today and Quarantined collections both by Simple Stories.  Great colours and a vintage vibe which reminded me of our wedding and played beautifully with three different papers by October Afternoon which I fussy cut and used to create the cluster along with some stickers of the "Rona" bug, some chipboard shapes and brads.  The plastic bow is an old Dear Lizzy one!

 

 

Can you believe only the mint green mat behind the photo is the only paper that was a single 12 x 12 pattern on both sides?  All the others were either cut apart cards or the B-Side of a cut apart sheet.  I punched the individual "Ronas" from the back of a card I didn't think I was going to use.

 

 

I chopped and re glued the month card and circled the date which is a sort of a nod to our wedding album where I'd try use the numbers 7 and 10 on each page.

 

 

Journaling

I deliberately chose the ledger paper which was the B side to one of the Hello Today cut apart sheets.  Perfect for writing and reminded me of a hospital chart.  The inside of the heart gave me plenty of room for a longer story.

 

 

Title

I used a card from one of the cut apart sheets as the title and a subtitle with small stickers from the sticker book on a clipboard from the chipboard sheet.

This is Real Life! 20 in 2020

Please be sure to check out what all the other Design Team girls did with this sketch and go ahead and submit a layout or card of your own!

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Stick It Down Layout for March

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It's Stick It Down time again and the sketch this month is by Antonia.  Head on over to the Stick It Down Blog to add your own project!

I loved the diagonal details on the sketch, but my style is pretty heavy on paper!  

 

  

Sara Scraps came to my rescue when she shared this layout of her son and I thought I could apply the general idea to the sketch.  She even dared me to keep it clean and simple! 😂😂😂

 

 

Now I'm not a girl to resist a dare, but even I know when something is a lost cause! 🙈🙈🙈

I started by going though my camera roll for a pair of photos and a story.  Facebook memories helped by reminding me it's been 3 years since this even for JDM car enthusiasts and while the story probably is more recent, it doesn't make a huge difference to album chronology.  

Having figured out my story, I had to include black and a very specific shade of blue.  I ended up pulling mostly papers from Shimelle's Sparkle City collection with a background from Glitter Girl.  the black paper with neon signs had me thinking of drifting so the one from the paper pad with the holographic was a great place to start!  The ombre background paper reminded me of the duochrome paint finish on some cars.

 

It was going to be a bit busy so I toned it down with gesso and added paint and mist splatters.  I even had some prehistoric Flutterbies from American Crafts.  Hands up who still has those?  Bunting kind of goes with an even like this and the one I used which was meant to co-ordinate with Dear Lizzy's 5th and Frolic collection is a great colour match for the black neon sign paper!

I also used some Simple Stories Bro and Co for the stamp set, stickers and die cuts.

Title

Chipboard and foam thickers for the title - Micro Glue Dots make the chipboard ones a breeze to adhere! (Thanks Columbus Trading❤️)

 

Embellies

In addition to some stamps for the diagonal embellies, I also used some clear and cardstock stickers and random car themed die cuts and stickers.

 

 

Journaling

Black and Blue

Please see what the other girls on the Design Team have made and also check out Sara's YouTube channel!

 

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