these were a few more layouts in my super, duper old stack of unfinished layouts. check them out. my apologies for the cruddy photos. yesterday it was 80 degrees and sunny out … today it's gloomy and raining. lol! anyways … ignore the black background … i have these on my ikea shelves.
this layout was inspired by my all time favorite scrapper, erin clarkson. actually, it's a total lift of one of her layouts … from 4 years ago. i can prove that … because i had this page torn from a magazine. the issue? march/april 2005 scrapbook etc.
i had the same exact papers … same cardstock … same metal flowers and mesh … and even the same stencil die cut letters. i had cut the papers and brushed the edges with white paint .. and had assembled all the papers. but that was as far as i got. no photos or title. i have seriously had this in a bag for 4 years. any time i clean out that pile of unfinished stuff, i come across this. but i always kept it … because i still love this layout of erin's after all these years. her style is amazing!
i had the layout on my desk and was determined to find some photos to use for it. i also had these photos of alyssa's birthday party from 2 1/2 years ago sitting out. took me a while … but i finally realized that i could use the photos on this page. these are all 2×3 photos … i had them all printed at costco (4 on each 4×6 photo) and then just made my own collage on a piece of white cardstock.
i had my metal flowers painted the orange like erin used … but changed them to green later. so i did have a few things that ended up different … but still all her idea!
so i have this in 2 seperate parts of my shelf … so pretend the black shelf piece isn't in between the two pages. did that even make sense? i had started this layout ages ago … all the papers were there and the diecuts. but i had printed out the photos myself into these small sizes (smaller than what is on here) … and had them randomly all over the 2 pages. kind of resembled a photo sneeze. i didn't like the look anymore .. so i tore them all off. i had all these printed at 2×3 at costco (once again, 4 on each 4×6 photo) and made them into my own collage on white cardstock. i like the look much better like this than i had before.
i just added some chipboard letters for my title … nothing original. and i would love to add another diecut to that top left corner. but i can't find my package of them to match. i'm actually thinking i gave them to someone. oh well.
so nice to get some birthday photos and layouts done. i tend to avoid those types of layouts … birthday and holidays. maybe because there are always so many photos. doing the collages like this is perfect … make the rest of the page pretty easy to finish.
Laura Vegas 
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