These 4 Things

Here is a layout I did of my beautiful son. He is such an amazing little boy - so smart, so caring, so wise beyond his years. Always a curious mind with such an imagination. I tried to incorporate 2 challenges with this layout. One was to use the colour grey. While I did use this colour, I think the layout ended up more orange than anything - oh well - grey is such a boring colour anyhow! The second challenge was from Scrapper's Block? and the challenge was to do a layout with a list.

I often find it difficult to include a title or journaling on my layouts as most of the space (even white space) seems taken up once I finish arranging the papers, photo(s) and embellies. I do want to include sentimental words if the layout calls for such and this is a layout that I did want to incorporate journaling so I simply hid it.

Here is the hidden journal tag with the pull tab closed: and opened: Journaling Reads: Things I Want You to Always Remember:
1. Your FAMILY is the most important thing in the world.
2. ENJOY life - each and every moment.
3. Never lose your sense of WONDER and imagination.
4. Eventhough you will GROW up to be 'big' one day, you will always be my little boy.

Close up of some cut out work and embellishments. I ended up hilighting key words from the journaling and incorporated into the layout: Wonder, Grow, Family, Enjoy.



Materials Used:
Cardstock: Basic cardstock, blond column (The Paper Company)
Patterned Paper: Ambrosia Collection, Winsome (Basic Grey)
Patterned Paper: Ambrosia Collection, grove (Basic Grey)
Patterned Paper: Ambrosia Collection, marmalade (Basic Grey)
Patterned Paper: Write Out collection, Explore - Discovery(We R Memory Keepers)
Adhesive Paper Ribbon: Que Sera Sera (K & Co)
Metal Words: Colorbok
Wood Stickers: Plaid
Ink: Jet Black (StazOn)
Paper Trimmer: 12 inch portable trimmer (Fiskars)