I needed to just make a page. I hadn’t done it in a while. I wanted to capture the moment. I wanted to capture my mood. A few incidents have just been circling and sometimes recording it, & getting it out seems to offer clarity in some way. Or maybe validation?
I needed to get some photos printed on my Instax with the black border film that was in there, so that I could change it for some other photos I wanted to print.
So I printed these 2 photos from capturing my crab sweater, which also coincided with a Instagram post a couple weeks ago.
I just wanted to make and not think too much. I used paper from Pinkfresh Studio Dream On collection and elements from their Indigo Hill collection, I received in a warehouse box last year.
I also wanted to incorporate the new Tim Holtz Snarky Small Talk stickers.
I also used some stickers from Simple Stories Carpe Diem Posh line.
The cute little crab is actually from a stationery pad my cousin gifted to me.
If you follow me at all, you may know about my quest to understand my journey more, which deals with a lot of inward soul searching, in true fashion of a Cancer or crab, water sign, guided by the moon.
I let the colors of my sweater guide me. Nautical colors are always a favorite, but I liked that this was not a layout from the nautical season so much. Thinking about these collections in different ways.
I’ve been challenging myself to use older supplies, so pulled out the polaroid border frame and arranged it under the pop-dotted Instax photos.
I knew the most important part was getting some journaling down and left a space at the bottom for some quick notes. These sentence fragments are probably my favorite way to record journaling. Just how my monkey mind thinks sometimes, in bits & pieces.
I used a metallic pencil to quickly sketch some lines as a guide for the journaling. I went to use my Signo white roller ball pen, but it was almost out of ink, so I switched to the Sakura gelly roll. This one also wasn’t flowing, but got it to work. I suspect this incredibly dry air is part of that.
For the date title, I used some older alpha stickers. The white did not show up as well as I wanted with the pattern paper, so I outlined it with black pen to stand out a bit more.
I like how the layout finally came together. Sometimes I’m not sure as I’m going along, but I was determined to not get held up too much. I actually finished it rather quickly in comparison to others.
I always come back to a few tried & true techniques, or rather things I love about scrapbooking:
Candid photos // handwriting // pattern paper mixing // collage (or more modernly known as clustering) // words/phrases // dark backgrounds // a 3-color scheme
the Paper goddess 