Laura Vegas

wanted to share a new jillibean soup layout with you today. have you seen their monster stew collection? it's a super cute halloween collection. but there's no reason it can't be used for something other than halloween, right 😉

i LOVE the fun, bright colors in this collection. the turquoise star paper is one of my favorites. the star paper has some googley eyes here and there on some of the stars. but if you cut it just right, you can't tell.

the photos are from alyssa's 12th birthday party. two years ago. she invited a bunch of her closest friends over, for a sleepover. it was loud and crazy. and my photos of the party? not great. the coloring on these photos was pretty bad. so i created this photo collage, arranging all the photos how i wanted them. and then i changed the entire collage to black and white, with the click of one button. so much easier then doing each photo on it's own.

love the printed journaling sprouts that go with each of the newest collections. i added how old alyssa turned to one of the largest journaling sprouts, using the green corrugated numbers. and i adhered that to my layout, using pop dots, for some extra dimension. then i used a few more journaling sprouts, for the party details and the date.

and i know that i've told you how much i LOVE the corrugated alphas. so glad they come in 5 great colors. and of course, you can paint them or alter them to be any color that you want. but these green alphas were perfect. and some of my favorite doodlebug loopy lou alphabet stickers, to finish off my title. i have been using these on everything lately. love them, and glad i have TONS of them 🙂