For our fifth and final day of our Five Days of Love event here on the Elle’s Studio blog, we are so excited to bring you a mini album created by Jill Sprott, completely from the heart. Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to reflect on the things you love the most in your life and what you are grateful for, just like Jill did here.
Any time is a good time to count your blessings, but each year, as Valentine’s Day draws near, I am always reminded of those blessings. I am so grateful to have so much love in my life. In that spirit, I created a mini-album to help me to document my many loves the form of a “Love List.”
Supplies | January 2017 Exclusive Kit, December 2016 Exclusive Kit, All My Heart Stamp, Olivia Alphabet Stamp, Always Acrylic Heart, Acrylic Frosted Hearts, Puffy Heart Stickers, XO Stickers, Valentine Banner Stickers, True Love Wood Veneer, Love Ya Wood Veneer Circles, Love You Journaling Tags, Right Now Journaling Tags, Monthly Journaling Tags
The album came together with help from Elle’s Studio products, in the form of stamps, acrylic shapes, die-cuts, and wood veneer, like the True Love Wood Veneer, which was stitched to my page for extra texture.
I mixed new and old in the pages of the album, working in some vintage dictionary and handwriting papers here and there. The album base is comprised of a series of alphabetized index cards, which have sat untouched until now for over two decades — my hoarding impulses actually paid off!
Throughout the album, I added a few pages with stitched garlands made from Elle’s Studio die-cut shapes as well as some hand-cut and punched shapes. Initially, I was going to trim the excess thread, but the strings brought to mind the idea of “heartstrings,” so I decided to keep them.
The heart of the album is the alphabetized “love list” and journaling that accompanies each item. I inserted embellished journaling cards between pages.
The album doubles as a love letter of sorts to scrapbooking. In the midst of documenting memories and moments, I had fun experimenting and playing with different techniques, some that worked well (like repeated stamping), and some that worked not-so-well (like stitching over puffy hearts). I just went with it.
I even made sure to include a few mushy-gushy, lovey-dovey pages for my husband. No love list would be complete without the love of my life!
Of course my daughter, who stole my heart long ago, deserved a few pages of her own as well, plus lots of extra embellishments.
So who’s on your love list?
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