Two blog posts in one week, amazing given the previous drought! There's something about the added time of blogging that kills me, I'm going to be honest. The work that goes into creating the layout then all the editing and voice over of a process video is so time consuming that the extra twenty minutes to write about it is more than I can cope with some days. Let's face it, most days. But I know that y'all wanna see too so I'm trying to make a more concerted effort. Not everybody is into process videos, I get that. Trust me, I get that, I don't watch them myself... Shhhh!
I'm up over on the Elle's Studio layout that is an "Inspired By" layout. Be sure to stop by the Elle's Studio blog to see who inspired me and what her layout looks like. This really is a scraplift in that I used her asymmetrical grid design and placement of things, I just changed up the color scheme and product. It always amazes me how you can scraplift somebody and has it look so completely different. But the same at the same time.
If you don't follow Elle's Studio, you need to head over to the shop and check out the Large Jane Alpha options; there is a solid, striped letter, polka letters AND there are metal dies to accompany them - saves you from having to fussy cut them! A huge time saver! I layered the hot pink stripes over the yellow for the LG part of the title here. LG, in case you were wondering, is short for Lewis Ginter, the name of the botanical gardens we were at. There was no way that was going to fit on the 4x3 card so I opted for the initials.
The original layout had grid patterned paper as the background with one of the large Jane Alpha I's stamped all the way around the edge to create a border. I loved both so had to "go my own way" to make that work for the color scheme I had going on with this kit and layout. I used the Noted Stamp to create my own grid. It's far from perfectly aligned but I wasn't bothered by that. Most of the imperfections are covered and I like the way that the imperfect grid matches the imperfect stamping on our imperfect date. Instead of the “I” from the Large Jane Alpha Stamp that Daniela used for the inner border, I used two of the phrases with arrows from the The Details stamp set with a coordinating yellow ink.
The way the yellow, pink and green pop the blue in the photos really makes me happy! It was such a gorgeous day and so special to see the cherry blossoms in bloom so early! It was/is also a bit of a milestone in the re-building of our marriage. Things went to hell pretty darn quickly and we have been working hard since January to learn to communicate again and reclaim the love lost. It's a work in progress but we're making it. Making the effort to do the small things that stopped happening that really are big things. And so the imperfections of the layout reflect the imperfections of life.
Unfortunately, or fortunately, depends who you ask, I don't have a process video to go with this layout. God definitely had a hand that, I truly believe. There's so much symbolism in this layout, the photo of us, the fact that the video didn't record... I can't explain it to you. It's been a crazy 2 and a half months, that's all I can say. I hope you are well and that you are nurturing your relationships and responding instead of reacting to life. Little lessons I've learned recently!
Take care!
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