Autumn Leaves Falling Down…

Name That Music Quote!

Hi scrappers! I feel like I just posted, but so many cool challenges on various websites were posted on the first of the month that I couldn’t wait to get started!

It may be September and basically fall, but it’s still over 100 degrees where I live. In fact, we’re in the middle of a record heat wave. I usually love summer and would lament its end every year (maybe that’s because back then I looked better in a bikini and I didn’t live so close to the beach where it gets insanely humid) but now I am really craving some sweater weather and colorful leaves. I decided that if I can’t have fall right now, I’ll live vicariously through this page where I used photos from a trip to Yosemite National Park a few years back.

I started with some brown cardstock from The Paper Studio Affinity stack. I layered over some lichen and wood paper from The Paper Studio’s Dendrology stack that really matched the forest theme. The majority of my embellishments came from the Tim Holtz Field Notes Ephemera Pack but I also used some Heidi Swapp Ephemera, some stickers from an infeelME sticker book, and some vintage frame stickers from an unknown brand. Although I didn’t use as may different embellishments as I do on most of my pages, the few I decided to use I struggled with a little bit as far as finding the perfect placement. You can see in the video that I rearranged things quite a few times before finding a configuration I liked. Sometimes I had to move things after I glued them down (which is never fun) because my oversized title took up more space that I thought. Once this page was finished, I realized I didn't use a single brad or enamel dot, which is truly unusual for me!

I also used a variety of alpha stickers I had in my stash to spell out the Taylor Swift quote that I used as a title (can anyone guess the song it’s from??) Mixing and matching alpha stickers is a great way to create longer titles when you don’t have a ton of vowels left in a particular sticker sheet. I need to find a way to use up a bunch of my excess Z’s, J’s and other leftover letters because once the vowels are gone, I don’t know what to do with the rest but don’t want to throw them all away.

I used the Becky Fleck 292 sketch at A Cherry on Top Crafts for this page, although I went off script pretty quickly. Instead of a circular detail, I used a rectangular frame, and my title ended up taking the entire righthand side of my page so I shifted everything to the left. The photos I used were a little bigger because I didn't;t want to cut them down too much and loose all of the lakeside background.

This page was also made for the More Than Words September challenge which was Ephemera and Playlist. I feel like I use some sort of ephemera on most of my pages. It’s one of my favorite things to shop for! Lately my playlists have always included Taylor Swift tracks, or I just listen to her albums start to finish. The quote “Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place” from All too Well was so perfect for this page because in one of my photos, I am literally throwing autumn leaves into the air and letting them fall down around me.

That’s all for this week. There’s so many cool challenges on so many scrapbook groups/blogs this month. I’ll never be able to do them all but I’m really excited to try! See you all next week (or maybe even sooner!)