Pop Culture Layout- Elements of being a Hipster

Here is a more recent layout I did for a challenge that Kathryn over at Life on the Scrap Beach is having. It was an amazing challenge about scrapping about things in pop culture. My husband and I and total hipster's, which is trending right now. This is one of the many pictures I've taken of us at Starbucks and knew that this would be a great time to scrap it.

For this layout, I used Studio Calico's Yearbook collection. I used some of the brighter colours in this collection. The border strip in the middle of the page, is a stamp from the Amy Tan Yes, Please collection. I repeated it several times, in order to merge the two different pattern papers together. I finished off the page with some classic elements like heart wood veneers, twine, washi tape and enamel dots. Lastly, the journaling states all the reason why were hipsters, and why we love it so much.

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TFL!

Using scraps to make cards

Late last year, I reorganized and cleaned my scrap room. Ever time I would walk by my room it would overwhelm me. It would literally suck the inspiration out of me. When I first walked into my room, I decided to attack my scrap pile. I originally organized everything by colour and each colour got a different bags. I noticed that this was taking a lot of valuable space. To get this space back, I limited my scraps to a single much smaller bin, which means I had to purge a lot of papers. I learned from this exercise I decided that I needed to stop creating scraps when I create a project. Once I'm done with this project, I started making cards, from the scraps.

Here are the cards I made with the scraps from the previous post. I'm very happy with how cards came out. I'm planning on sending my extra cards to Operation Write Home.



Here is a little closer look, I used some coordinating cardstock and washi to create these cards:






TFL, hope this inspires you.
Angie