Scrapbook Challenge
Seattle Aquarium
Hexagons and Nintendo Characters
Hi scrappers! This week I made a page featuring a photo taken when my sister and I went to visit the Seattle Aquarium. I was lucky enough that our visit happened to coincide with when they were doing a collaboration with Animal Crossing, a very popular game made by Nintendo. Both my sister and I have enjoyed the many installments in the series going back to the IP’s debut on the Game Cube. The event is touring American museums nationwide and features photo ops with standees of game characters, a scavenger hunt for aquatic creatures in the aquarium and more! To see if it’s coming to a city near you, check out their page! Also, can you see the dance team child in me coming out in this picture? It’s too much.
I used some pale blue cardstock from the American Crafts Spring cardstock stack as my background. I cut a piece of tiny square patterned paper to lay along the bottom and then used some paper scraps to double mat my photo. I used a 2 inch hexagon punch and a whole lot of paper scraps to make lots of identical shapes to place throughout my layout.
The big eye-catching embellishments are of course the pictures of Tom Nook and his nephews Tommy and Timmy. I found these online, and when I sent off my latest batch of photos to be printed, I included them so I would have high quality images on photo paper. I carefully cut them out and attached them with foam core mounting tape so they would stand out a little. They are characters from Animal Crossing in case you didn’t know!
The embellishments were pretty minimal since there were so many patters and colors in the hexagons already. I stuck to mostly word stickers by Heidi Swapp and Hazel & Ruby. I also included clusters of enamel dots by Simple Stories and Altenew.
This page was made as part of a scrap lift challenge on A Cherry on Top Crafts. I chose this cute layout by lilkoala3. I happened to have a hexagon punch the same size as the original and followed the placement of the hexagons fairly closely. I moved the title a little and didn’t have a little photo to include the way the original did, but I emulated the word sticker embellishments and the use of enamel dots like the original had.
This page was also made for the August Video Game challenge and this month’s game was absolutely perfect! I was hoping this game would be chosen sooner or later since I knew I had these photos waiting to be scrapped!
That’s all for now. I’m going to try and cram some last minute entries for the month into my free time so hopefully I’ll be back in a few days with another layout!