I completed this layout during the (Inter)National Scrapbook Day/Weekend. I followed Janet Madison over at RTS Scrapbooking on Patreon. She did a series during this awesome holiday called Collection Cut-Up where you cut your papers in specific sizes and put them together and create a bunch of layouts but they all look very different. Janet comes up with so much content and she only charges $1. You should really check her out over at Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RTSscrapbooking/posts. She also has a YouTube channel by the same name where you can see some of her older content and get a feel for what kind of content she does.
Since this is paid content, I will not be sharing any details about this round of collection cut-up but there are some older ones on her YouTube channel. I can tell you that I used the Echo Park Capture Life collection by Allison Kreft. This collection was from 2014 and it is a timeless collection that can be used for any subject matter. I decided to do this layout about the Sandhill Cranes that are around my office. It is so fun to watch them hatch their eggs and see the babies grow up. They are quite large but they don't mind us watching them and taking pictures. Just don't get too close or you'll spook them.
I used a solid white cardstock background with some strips of two of the papers from the Echo Park Capture Life collection, some stickers from the sticker sheet from the same collection, a tab and word phrase from the Vicki Boutin Color Study Collection, some really old Making Memories die cut flowers, some flowers from a sticker book from The Paper Studio (Hobby Lobby brand), a puff heart from Elle Studio, a mini camera flair from Shadnee on Etsy, and some tile letter stickers from my stash. I drew a messy border around the layout to give it some definition because I seemed to get a little lost. I backed the pictures on black cardstock so they would pop off the page. The black you see around the border of the page is just the foam core board the layout was sitting on when I took the picture but after seeing it I wish I had matted the layout on black cardstock.
I hope you enjoyed it and happy scrapping!
