Blueberries' Layouts

Day 1 - Blind Scrap

Recipe:
1 photo, centered on the page
2 distinct frames
3 ribbon or bows
4 papers, all layered under your photo
5 flowers
6 leaves and/or branches
7 lines of journaling
8 additional elements of your choice



Made with:
Huntington by Paislee Press
October Stuff by Allison Pennington
Great Balls of Fire by Kristen Aagard
Broken Wings Elements by Little Butterfly Wings
Interlude by One Little Bird
Beautiful Dreamer and Believe ForeverJoy Designs
Beetris and Felicity by Rebecca McMeen
ATC First Edition Ephemera and Abundance of Asia by Tangie Baxter
La Folie, May, and Rosie by Lynn Grieveson
Amusing Art Doll Collection by Rebecca McMeen and Tangie Baxter
Once Upon an Imagination by Allison Pennington and Jenn Barrette

Font is Ortisan Signature by Inopatype

Journaling reads:

The lesson was on faith - how to hold on to it when you know for a fact no one is listening. The altar was cold and empty; I had every reason to believe it would stay that way, for at least a year. Maybe even forever. It turned out that faith was easiest when life was hardest, and that was the least surprising lesson of all.

 

Day Two - List

1. A numbered, written list of ten favorite things
2. Title and date



Made with:
Interlude by One Little Bird
So Good Together by Sabrina's Creations
The Sparkly Season by Pink Reptile Designs
For Those About to Rock by Kristen Aagard
Twinkle Twinkle Alphabet by Allison Pennington
Be and Believe by ForeverJoy Designs
Beetris, Callisto, and Watercolor Tape and Nosegays by Rebecca McMeen
Snapshots: Part two {the stories} by The Lilypad Designers

Font is Ink Free

 

Day 3 - Crazy Number of Frames

Requirements:

At least 10 frames
At least 2 photos



Made with:
Believe by ForeverJoy Designs
The Anne by Heather Joyce
Interlude by One Little Bird
Beetris by Rebecca McMeen
Fairytale by Paislee Press and One Little Bird
Hero of the Night by DeCrow Designs and Tangie Baxter

 

Day 4 - Simple Template

Requirements: Use provided template, make sure it's recognizable.



Made with:
Simple Template by Sahin Designs
The Sparkly Season by Pink Reptile Designs
Beetris by Rebecca McMeen

Font is Stoner by Fikryal Studio

 

Day 5 - Grid Photo

Requirements:
Create a color grid photo with at least 3 adjustments.
Grid must be at least 3 across and 3 tall.



Made with:
Beetris by Rebecca McMeen
November Stuff by Allison Pennington
Unconventional Wisdom by Tangie Baxter

Font is Ortisan Signature by Inopatype

Quote is from Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown








Create a color grid photo with at least 3 adjustments. Grid must be at least 3 across and 3 tall.

 

Day 6 - Scrappable Stackable

Requirements: Use the provided template



Made with:
Be by ForeverJoy Designs
Beetris by Rebecca McMeen
Scrappable Stackable Template by Lynn Grieveson and The Nifty Pixel

Font is Ortisan Signature by Inopatype

 

Day 7 - Magazine Inspiration

Requirements:
1. Page must include a combination of both photos and text.
2. Page must include a headline - some portion of text that is larger than the rest and tells something about the subject of the page.
3. Page MAY NOT include shadows.



Made with:
Beetris by Rebecca McMeen
Summer Nights Collection by Bella Gypsy
Music to My Ears by Designed by Soco and ninigoesdigi
Garden Party Alphabets and Good Times Alphabets by Pink Reptile Designs

Font is Times New Roman

Text reads:

The first question is the obvious one: How many?

She looks at her hands, smiling as she holds up her fingers to wiggle them.

"Twenty-one. Not quite one for every year but close. It's hard to find them small enough to knuckle them up on my pinkies."

There are as many questions as rings on her fingers but again, go with the obvious.

"Why so many?"

That chases the smile away. She looks at her hands like she'll find an answer there. "I took off a ring I'd been wearing for half my life. I knew I needed to replace it with something else, but I couldn't decide what." She shrugs as her smile comes back. "A few years ago, I wrote a poem about how to keep loving yourself after catastrophic change; one of the lines is decorate your dry, bruised hands. So I thought, okay. Maybe that will work. And since I'm a firm believer in too much is never enough ..."

Another shrug. I wait for her to say something else. She waits for another question.

"Which is your favorite?"

This time she laughs as she holds up the middle finger on her right hand. "This baby. I've been obsessed with bees ever since he left, since I took back the nickname he had for me. The ring reminds me that it's all mine now; I don't need him to call me Bee. I can call myself that. The crown just punctuates it. Makes it more obvious when I raise up my middle finger in frustration."

A thoughtful look comes around and she holds up her pinky on the same hand. It's adorned with a small silver band, capped off with two thin black rings. Hope is written on it, the letters stamped black into the worn silver.

"But sometimes I think this one is most important. This is the one that gets me through."

 

Day 8 - Build Your Own Tree

Requirements:
Construct a tree using scrap elements to represent trunk, branches, and leaves. Cannot use any pre-made tree parts. Photo and journaling optional.



Made with:
Beetris and Rootz by Rebecca McMeen

 

Day 9 - QR Code

requirements: Create and include a QR code.



Made with:
Sweet Storytelling and Whispers: Nature by Sahlin Studio
The Typewriter by Heather Joyce

Photo from Pixabay

 

Day 10 - Altered Tags

Requirements: Make a set or collection of 4 or more altered tags using the one provided. The tags must all be the same size and the tag shape must be visible.



Made with:
Hope by Lynne-Marie
Blank Tag by Rachel Jefferies
Hallowed Gothic by Mommyish
October Stuff by Allison Pennington
Summer Nights by Little Butterfly Wings
Summer Nights Collection by Bella Gypsy
artCRUSH No4 {Sprinkles} by NBK Design
Crushed Gold Elements by Paula Kesselring
A Beautiful Mess Elements by Pink Reptile Designs
Be, Sweet Home, and Wild One by ForeverJoy Designs
Garden Mystery, La Folie, and Sharp Eyed by Lynn Grieveson
Beetris, Watercolor Tape and Nosegays, and Yarrow by Rebecca McMeen
Alice's Curiously Spooky Night , A Door Just Opened, and Glacier Sky by Tangie Baxter
Bright Side by The Lilypad Designers
Art & Soul by Sahlin Studio and Holly Designs
Awaiting Dawn by DeCrow Designs, Rebecca McMeen, and Tangie Baxter

Font is The Florest by Black Lotus

 

Day 11 - Vision Board

Requirements:
Create a layout as a visual representation of how you see your year.
Must have exactly 20 goals (individual or in categories).M
Must use scrap products in the form of elements, quotes, visual additions to your LO.



The Goals:

Verb:
1. Grow
2. Dance
3. Learn photography
4. Learn papermaking
5. Paint the walls
6. Paint my nails
7. Bake
8. Believe
9. Write

Happiness:
10. Buy a new bed
11. Get fresh ink
12. Get lost

Honey Bee:
13. Keep buzzing
14. Keep the bat handy
15. Keep it burning
16. Keep calm and cast spells

Today's the Day:
17. Open shop
18. Catch the sun
19. Buy a car
20. Fill it with flowers


Made with:
Hope by Lynne-Marie
Interlude by One Little Bird
Hallowed Gothic by Mommyish
Great Balls of Fire by Kristin Aagard
Broken Wings Elements by Little Butterfly Wings
artCRUSH No4 {Sprinkles} by NBK Design
Dinner Date Elements by Pink Reptile Designs
Garden Mystery and Rosie by Lynn Grieveson
Rise and Shine and Wild One by ForeverJoy Designs
October Stuff and Twinkle Twinkle Alphabet by Allison Pennington
Await No More, Extraordinary Day, and Favorite Things - Baking by Tangie Baxter
Beetris, Betsy Summer Scenes 2, Breccan, Callisto, Essie and Esmerelda, Flynn, Harper, Mac, Remy and Mr. Fox, Rootz, and Street Sketches by Rebecca McMeen
Fairytale by Paislee Press and One Little Bird
Studio Remnants Teal by Tangie Baxter and SherrieJD
Snapshots: Part two {the stories} by The Lilypad Designers

 

Day 12 - Filled Template

Requirements: Use provided template, must be recognizable to original.



Made with:
Fiddlesticks Number 59 by Fiddle-Dee-Dee Designs
So Good Together by Sabrina's Creations

Font is Ortisan Signature by Inopatype

 

Day 13 - By The Numbers

Requirements: 5 or more numbered data + minimal text details



Made with:
Miscellany by Amy Wolff
Press Lines No. 16 by Paislee Press
Mask Magic - Volume 1 by Little Butterfly Wings
The Guy with the Fast Red Car by Heather Joyce
Brush of the Month Club July 2017 by Tangie Baxter
Beetris, Cinnae, and Harper by Rebecca McMeen
Farmhouse Christmas Papers and Hallowed Gothic by Mommyish
Music to My Ears by Designed by Soco and ninigoesdigi

 

Day 14 - Silhouette Photography

Requirements: Brand new silhouette photo - no stock allowed.



Made with Summer Nights Collection by Bella Gypsy

 

Day 15 - Vellum Over Photo

Requirements: Vellum overlay on a picture, must cover at least 50% of the photo.



Made with:
C-Thru’s 1 and The Sparkly Season by Pink Reptile Designs

Font is Yessy by 7NTypes

 

Day 16 - Inspiration from Quotes

Requirements: Must use one of the provided quote. Must use a photo and quote must be visible.



Made with:
Rise and Shine by ForeverJoy Designs
Stargazer by ForeverJoy Designs and Studio Basic

Photo from Pexels

Font is Breamcatcher by Typodermic Fonts

 

Day 17 - Hindsight is 20/20

Requirements: At least 200 words on an moment of hindsight. Must include "hindsight is 20/20"



Made with:
Blessings by ForeverJoy Designs
Turn the Page Doodles by Little Butterfly Wings
Doodled Borders No. 1 by Pink Reptile Designs
Marion the Librarian by Tangie Baxter
Beetris and Merry by Rebecca McMeen
Snapshots: Part two {the stories} by The Lilypad Designers

Font is Ortisan Signature by Inopatype

Journaling (word count 251):

Hindsight is 20/20 for some, but I’ve had poor eyesight most of my life. More like 20/200 with a healthy side order of astigmatism.


But then again, maybe in this I’m willfully blind.


The thing about hindsight is you have to make a conscious choice to see what you maybe purposely tried to avoid looking at too closely. If I look back, I’m liable to find the answers I’m not ready for, to the questions that make me shake like a pair of glasses clutched in a trembling hand.


Can a list of good deeds really make up for an equally long list of bad?

Where is the line between merely toxic and outright abusive?

Did we cross it when I was too busy finding somewhere else to look?

And the kicker - did I really stay because I thought it was the best choice or because I was too scared to be on my own after so many years?


I don’t want to look back, examine the past to find out if I did, in fact, spend more than half my life in an abusive relationship. I know I’m going to have to at some point, either to heal from it or just find some peace of mind but believe me when I say I don’t want to, for more reasons than just the obvious.


So I’ll simply adjust my glasses and tell myself right now foresight is a little bit more important.


And maybe start looking for a therapist.

 

Day 18 - Create Your Own Cluster

Requirements: Design a cluster of at least 12 elements from provided list. Each item must have a visible drop shadow.



Made with:
Interlude by One Little Bird
Chalklet Coated Printer Box Valorie Wibbens
Farmhouse Christmas Elements by Mommyish
Beetris, Essie and Esmerelda, Harper, Merry, Remy and Mr. Fox, Rootz, Vale, and Violet Ink by Rebecca McMeen
Stargazer by ForeverJoy Designs and Studio Basic
Awaiting Dawn by DeCrow Designs, Rebecca McMeen, and Tangie Baxter
Stargazer by ForeverJoy Designs and Studio Basic

 

Day 19 - Cut Out Background

Requirements:
Cut shapes out of a patterned paper
*Piece the patterned paper back together with cut out shapes
*The cut-out shapes need to be turned, shifted, recolored, and/or resized and then placed back onto the page with a different orientation than how the pattern originally started.
*At least 95% of the page foundation should be the pattern paper (and the cut outs)



Made with:
Madras by Lynn Grieveson

 

Day 20 - Timeline

Requirements: Timeline of at least 5 separate yet related things, in chronological order.



Made with:
The Typewriter by Heather Joyce
Beetris, Betsy Summer Scenes 2, Breccan, Bree, Remy and Mr. Fox, Tatty Reveal, and Tilly by Rebecca McMeen

Font is Ortisan Signature by Inopatype