Countdown to National Scrapbooking Day!

To kick-off  National Scrapbooking Day this Saturday {May 4} the Dream Team, Contributing Writers, & Contributing Editors at CK will be dropping by the Creating Keepsakes blog all week to share some scrap-lifted inspiration. 
The May/June 2013 issue of Creating Keepsakes is full of great scrapbook pages!
 Everybody looked through the issue and designed a new layout using a technique or design principle based off one of the layouts that inspired us.
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I was inspired by Hanna Long's "Love this Life" layout in the Simple Solutions for Fast Pages article on page 23.

{geez I hate how small 2-page layouts look on here! click to see if you can make it bigger!}

I love how much hand-written journaling she was able to get on her 2-page layout. 

I only wanted to make a 1-page layout, but I did want to dedicate a lot of the page to journaling too. 

I grabbed a sheet of lined patterned paper (from Glitz!) to use as the background of my page. 

It made for easy journaling! 

I added a little patterned paper, a few stickers, and some die cuts to the top half of the layout. 

Then I added the title and picture. 

The rest of the layout I saved for all my journaling. 

Supplies:

Patterned paper: Close to my Heart, Fancy Pants, Glitz

Stickers: Bella Blvd, Fancy Pants

Die Cuts: Elle's Studio

Chipboard: Echo Park

Pen: American Crafts

Adhesive: Scrapbook Adhesives (3L Adhesives)

Thanks, Hanna, for the inspiration!

Make sure to stop by the CK blog all week for all kinds of fun scraplifts and inspiration!

Have an awesome day!

:)

gretchen