Make It Sunday with Gail Lindner - 01.29.12

I'm Gail Lindner and I'm so excited to be back on the Elle's Studio blog today! I live in Queensland, Australia and am a stay at home mum to two: an almost four-year-old girl and a six-month-old baby boy. I've been scrapbooking for over 12 years now and love it just as much today as the day I started! I'm so passionate about recording stories, moments and thoughts for my children!

Here in the southern hemisphere we are in the midst of our hot summer, so my layout today is celebrating that!

 

Here's how this layout came together:
1. Start by trimming down your patterned paper blocks to create the background. I've used a couple of favourite patterned from Crate Paper.

2. Distress the edges of the patterned paper and use your sewing machine to stitch them on the background, also from Crate Paper. Add a few splatters of brown and white mist to your background now.

3. Run a length of ribbon across your layout and tie a bow to the right, leaving room for your photos on your left.

4. Adhere your photos to the layout. I've given mine a thin mat of white cardstock first.

5. Add your Elle's Studio journaling tags - I've cut tags from Lil' Snippets Beach and Lil' Snippets Explore and layered them above the photos and an Everyday Journaling Large Circle Tag and 2011 Monthly Pennant to the bottom right corner, overlapping a photo. I've lightly sanded the edges of all the tags. Photo -

6. Add your title (a mix of older Basic Grey stickers and chipboard letters) as well as a chevron badge and punched flowers. I've trimmed the tiny flowers from a strip from a border punch and added tiny pearls to the centre.

7. To finish off the cluster near the photo, add another tiny flower, fabric yo-yo and chipboard flourish. I've also typed the location on a Crate Paper label sticker and added it. Photo - The Shore b

8. I realised that I had quite a bit of journaling to add but didn't want to clutter up the layout so I wrote the journaling on a Summer Memories Large Journaling Tag and added a patterned paper tab to the top.

9. I then trimmed an envelope, added double sided tape to the back and adhered it to the back of the layout. It's so easy now to pull out the extra journaling

It's time for a giveaway! We are giving away the Elle's Studio products Rebecca used on this layout:

Lil' Snippets Beach, Lil' Snippets Explore, Everyday Journaling Large Circle Tag, 2011 Monthly Pennant, and Summer Memories Large Journaling Tags.

Just leave a comment to be entered to win - one comment per person, please! Then, check back next Sunday to see if you have won!

Congrats to last Sunday's winner:

Monique Liedtke, please email us the info below to claim your prize to info@shopellesstudio.com

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Prize: January 22nd