Scraplift

 Hey my friends and followers...  Hope you are having a blessed Sunday!

I had this layout finished and wanted to share it with you.  It's a scraplift from Scrapper's Place, which is a local store lead by Rebecca.  Her work is beautiful and she has a style that everybody loves.  

I usually don't scraplift too perfectly ... I always need to change a bit in most of inspirational layouts to make them "mine"... but this one I tried to be as faithful as possible because it had elements I would definitely use in my own layouts, and techniques I love.  

You can visit Scrapper's Place blog HERE.

Here are some of the elements I loved about this page.

The Flowers

They look beautiful and delicate all placed together framing the photo.  The spirals were pre-cut by Rebecca for the class and I just had to assemble the flowers.  I loved the process and enjoyed it a lot.  One of the things I love is to make my own embellishments or modify the already made ones.

The Banners

I love to use banners and support journalism with these kind of elements that embellish and also communicate or symbolize something.  I pretty much kept with Rebecca's design.  Just added an additional one to show a date.

The use of paper

I love to use papers at their whole capacity... and this means I don't trow away the pieces. This is not necessarily a good thing because I end up with lots of scrap accumulated... and I'm trying to improve that...  But when it comes to papers with designs, texture, messages... I try to use it all.  Rebecca achieved this with these papers in this layout!!!

Inking and Distressing

I love to ink it all.  I sometimes try to not ink my projects and I just end up with so much stress because I feel something is missing... LOL...  So I go with the flow.  With Rebecca's layout this was easy to do because she really rocked with the distressing and inking in this page.

Another change in my layout version is that I added a journaling just below my photo.

The Versatility

I love that this layout can be dedicated to a daughter (as original Rebecca's page), or just to someone else, (probably more suitable for a girl)...   I decided to dedicate it to myself.  I have lots of random photos of me, and thought I had a good one for this layout.  

The Non-Title Inspiration

Rebecca did not titled the original layout for the class.  She did use some phrases around the page that communicated very well but left the opportunity of the title for each one of the scrap-lifters.

I added my title and love the result.

The Whole Look

It's a beautiful layout.  Colors and technique are very inspiring.  It's one of those pages you feel have a lot going on, but they look so uniform that they flow, right?

Hope you liked it.  I'm glad I chose to take this class with Rebecca.

Tks for your comments.

Still in Love

Are you still in love?

Well, this might be understood as if you still in love with your partner... husband... wife... after years..???? Good... answer that question to yourself. I personally believe love is a decision we make and it is also an unbelievable feeling that evolves along with that decision. You decide to love someone no matter the good, the bad, the pretty and the ugly. And there are different stages... through which that love evolves and you express your feelings and emotions... and also the love itself in different ways... Maybe the flowers you received before, now are not as expected as then, but you do receive everyday signs confirming the love is still alive... Right? Well.. I'm not therapist... just my way to define it.. hehehe...

But you know what?... I don't refer to that with my post title... I am talking about that it's still February, so I'm still posting "love" projects... hahahahaha.... what do you think? But I'm also still in love.

This double spread layout was made by a friend called Rebecca. She owns a scrapbooking store in Isabela, Puerto Rico. Her work is beautiful. She has a great ability to use so many different papers in one layout and really get to use most of the materials. You can get more information about the store HERE. She made this layout for a crop a couple of weeks ago.

Papers are from Making Memories' collection, Je t'adore. You'll love it. It's a very romantic design and at the same time not too "romantic" for those who doesn't like it to be over the "sweetness"... if you know what I mean...hehehe..

I'm sorry for not having the best pictures from her work, but I wanted to show you the original pages from which I made the scraplift. This is the left page, where she proposed to place a vertical photo and the text block she cut from one of the papers. The details of her work are amazing. She used different sized strips of patterned papers and placed as background and also used a punched border with little hearts. Each strip is distressed and inked. The detail flower was cut with a Cuttlebug machine (beautiful die and was very fun to do).

The right page continues the game of the patterned papers and has a big half heart, also from one of the dollies paper from the collection. She wisely positioned all these on dark cardstock so the design stands out. Don't you love it?

So, I am not very good scraplifting... Not because I don't have fun doing it, but because there's something about me that make me change it...

I tried to keep as much as possible from the original layout... and I was able to do it. I placed the patterned papers as exactly as I could...

For left page, I used a chipboard flourish I had from Fancy Pants, and the border punch I used was different (I confess I borrowed it from my friend Maribel... and it was new... I used it first... Thank you Maribel. You can see Maribel's out of world work HERE.).

However, I changed the orientation of the photo for a horizontal one (thinking of this photo I had from me and my husband... not only we are hugging but also the colors go very well with these papers). I also added other border in the bottom of the page (Martha Stweart's), and you'll noticed I did not place the text block in this page.

I positioned it in the right page and added another flower of those that I really had fun assembling.
A little heart was also added to the flower.

So with the title added and those other details, I ended up answering the question of the title with the text block that serves as journaling in the layout... What is love?

And, this is how the double page layout looks finished. I hope you liked it... and thank you Rebeca for such inspirational work that you always share with SB Friends group.

I will post another LOVE project next week... Keep loving everyday... don't miss the opportunity to be imperfect... Love is.