Make It Sunday with Rebbeca Keppel – 01.22.12

My name is Rebecca Keppel and in the beginning of 2005 I was a corporate attorney in San Francisco, but then my daughter was born and I became a stay at home mom. I started scrapbooking around that time and found the creative outlet, a sanity saver to say the least! We moved to Arizona and my son was born in 2007. They are the main stars of my scrapbooking show. I love practicing new photography skills on them and then creating layouts with those pictures. I also enjoy card making and creating mini albums and gifts for friends and family. Two of my favorite additions to paper projects are machine sewing and typewritten journaling. Journaling, whether by hand, typewriter or computer is very important to me and that is why I thoroughly enjoyed my time as an Elle’s Studio Design Team Member last year! A huge thanks to Elle’s Studio for letting me stop by and share my love for Elle’s Studio tags, cards and pennants!

I have not committed to a photo a day or Project Life, but I do love to take pictures of the everyday moments. And then I like to scrap those everyday moments. I love using Elle’s Studio products because many of the tags and journaling cards have prompts for this everyday type of scrapbooking. So I pulled together some photos of totally random things I was thankful for one morning and got to work!

Here’s how this layout came together:
1. I started with a very simple gray background that happened to feature an image of a doily and added some white mist splatters.

2. When making my photo collage, I left some dead space in order to fit 3 photos next to 2 larger ones. An Elle’s Studio One and Only Strip fit perfectly and covered up the bare spot in my collage.

3. Next I started working on my title. Originally I tried fitting the entire Today tag into my design, but I just couldn’t make it work, so I cut the “Today” part off and included it in my title. The best part is, I save d the bottom half of the tag and now I have some journaling lines to include on another project (or layered on top of another tag that doesn’t have journaling lines!).

4. I really liked the simplicity of the background paper, so rather than include more patterned papers and deal with issues of matching colors, I simply fussy cut out some doilies from the Collected Large Journaling Tags and ran them down the left side.

5. I added a pennant and two One and Only Tidbits under the right side of my title to fill an empty spot, and then I made my own banner using One and Only Strips. I simply folded them over some twine and stapled with my tiny attacher.

6. Finally, I used one more Collected Large Journaling tag to type up my journaling and lined it up right under my photo collage. And to bring in a third pop of yellow to the layout to go along with the title and the number “2” in the Large Journaling Tag, I slipped one more Daily 3×4 Tag under the right side of my photo collage, to draw attention to my favorite photo.