Laura Vegas

Hey everyone! I've got several new projects to share over the next week or so, and I thought I would start with this 6×12" pocket page spread for my personal album. I actually started this spread earlier this year, to document my love of Starbucks, and just never got around to finishing it. I ended up changing just about everything I had planned out originally, only keeping two of the photos and the gift card. Sometimes, after so many months away from a project, you just need to start fresh!

I've mentioned this on a few Instagram photos recently, but I've never actually tried real coffee before. I'm not one for hot drinks to begin with. But I've had a slight obsession with the Java Chip Frappacino for many years. I can still call it my "morning coffee", right? It does have coffee in it 😉

I used a ton of digital elements from Ali Edwards to create my title card, journaling cards, and filler cards. There's one piece of actual patterned paper on this spread, and everything else was done in Photoshop and printed out on cardstock on my photo printer. I actually have some of these 4×6" and 3×4" cards in my physical stash, but I also have the digital files. I decided to print them all, since I was adding some additional digital elements to a few of them, and wanted them to have a consistent look as far as the paper they were printed on. 

The 4×6" card above, along with the little label "ticket" are both from Story Kits, and the title was created using digital brushes. I adhered a piece of washi tape across the top part of the card, and added a few staples to either end of the tape. That little Starbucks frappacino piece? I randomly came across that (and the one you'll see in the photo below) at the Scrapbook Expo last weekend. No clue who they're from, as they were just in little baggies in a huge bin that we had to dig through. But since I was already working on this spread, I knew I had to get them to add in. 

I have many photos taken while waiting in line at the Starbucks drive-thru, but this one is one of my better pics. And the days of the week 3×4" card was fitting, since Starbucks was a daily habit of mine until earlier this year 😉

I actually haven't had many frappacinos over the last year. But I recently decided to try my hand at making a healthier version at home. Not that it's "healthy" by any means. But it's a WHOLE lot healthier, and WAY cheaper, than the real deal. 

I probably should have put the card above, with the recipe for my homemade frappacino, next to the photo of the homemade version. Didn't even dawn on me until I'm seeing it as I type up this post. 

I created my own 4×6" journaling card in Photoshop. I took some ruled lines from a 3×4" journaling card and layered them together a few times to make the lines fill the larger journaling card. And since I wanted the green along the top to match some of my other pieces, I copied a strip of green off of another 3×4" filler card and sized it to fit along the top.

I'm not always great at using the color picker to get the color I want in Photoshop, so it was just an easy way for me to get the right shade of green. 

I have saved quite a few Starbucks gift cards over the years, but this one matched my photos so well that I knew I wanted to include it. I adhered it onto a 3×4" piece of patterned paper (the only patterned paper on this spread). The card on the right came from a Story Kit, and I simply added some digital elements from Ali's kits to complete it.