I've been meaning to blog this for ages. It's a layout I made for my scrapbook this summer and I was just so please with how it came out. They don't usually look quite this good.

Materials:
- Paper (front and back of the same sheet) and buttons from a Studio Calico kit (June 2010 I think)
- Ribbon and waxed twine from the stash
- Title letters also from the stash (a Basic Gray set)
- Journalling was written on the computer and printed on heavy weight paper.
My layout measures 11" by 8".

The photos are from a heritage class project in my last year at university. One of the pictures was taken at a bit of an angle but I really liked it. I think using the verticals in the pictures to line things up (instead of the sides of the print) gives my layout a more relaxed (slightly silly) feeling.

I love the buttons. They weren't part of my idea at first but they fell into the set of colours I was working with and were near the top when I starting pulling things out of boxes. I love the colour of them. I love the whimsey of them. I love the way they work so well with my paper (which was perfect for this as soon as I saw it).

I had originally put all my journalling onto strips to be coming out of the top photo but there was no way they would all fit. Instead I kept the basic who, where, when lines and put the rest of the story onto a card that hides behind the bottom picture. I made the pull-out tab with two scalloped circles cut with my die cutting tool and glued together.

Now I just need to keep going and I might (someday) have an up to date scrapbook.