As I was planning for my August Scrapbook class I decided I wanted to do a sports themed page. But I wanted it to be generic enough that it could be for a variety of sports or even not a sport at all. For me the star is a shape that covers so many things including sports so I wanted to use the star element and then I wanted a paper that was flexible enough that it could be used for most any sport or other event – I decided on the Well Worn Designer Series paper. I found a sketch in a magazine and took some ideas from a few other layouts that I have seen and put it all together to create this scrapbook layout for my class.
You can change the title to suit your needs – use it for a sports layout, a bbq layout, 4th of July, Labor Day, Memorial day, an outdoor camping layout, playing ball with the dogs, any number of things would work here. That’s the flexibility of using stars!
The stars are the Big Shot die and I cut them out of chipboard and then out of the Well Worn DSP. I mixed up the patterns, sanded all the edges and even stamped on some of them. I personally like to use the Anywhere Glue Stick to attach the Designer Paper to Chipboard – it has enough wiggle room that you can slide your paper into the exact spot that you want it and then it drys and hold tight.
The strips of Designer Paper are torn on the ends and curled back just a little. The background stamping is from Extreme Elements stamp set. I used various images from the set including the stars.
I also used the Top Note Die (love that one) and cut two – one from Not Quite Navy card stock and one from River Rock card stock (it gets trimmed inside the perforated lines). These are layered together and stamped with the Notes & Details stamp set for the journaling.
The title letters are cut using the Big Shot and the Simple Letters dies. The ones that over lap the photo mat are not glue to it – that way I can slip my picture up under the letters if needed. I plan to put a focal picture on the Cajun Craze mat and then a collage of photos on the River Rock mat across the two pages.
The Notes & Details stamp set even has a date stamp which I added at the bottom of the photo mat on the left page.
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