Welcome to the January 2012 Studio AE Blog Hop!
This month’s stamp is called Bring On The Love.
A nice love-themed set that can be used for Valentine’s projects or any time you want to express your love for someone in your memory keeping projects. Love is one of my favorite universal themes – always lots of stories to share about expressing love (totally not just for Valentine’s Day).
Here’s a look at the 8.5×11 layout:
Now, let me be the first to say that I wanted to experiment a bit with this layout.
The truth is that I don’t completely love it. I think it’s mainly because I stuck that hand-stitched heart right in the middle of the page and it’s totally bugging me. That said, I’m just going to put it in my album and move on. The process of playing was good.
If I was going to do it again or change it I’d probably keep the bottom portion (up to the scallop ribbon) and then have the rest be just the photo and the couple small hearts. Practice and learn!
Here’s a look at the process:
I’ve had the Pink Paislee Mistables Collection Scallop Ribbons sitting in my stash for awhile and was ready to make something happen with it.
Using both Bring On The Love and Hero Arts Clings Thank You stamps, paired with Ranger Archival Ink, I stamped right onto the Pink Paislee Scallop Ribbons. I stamped “love you so much” twice and used a bit of red line adhesive to initially attach it to the page. I stamped the text stamp a couple times along the larger piece of ribbon and then layered it up underneath the first strip.
In the photo above you can see that I layered a strip of Pinkish-Grey Stripe Tape on top of the bottom edge of the photo. Aligned with the right edge I added a piece of scalloped felt from My Mind’s Eye Everyday Fun Borders set. I stitched a zig-zag line along the edge between the stamped scallop ribbon and the photo.
The heart (yea, that one in the center of the layout) was hand-stitched using embroidery floss. Loved doing that but don’t love the placement (and little stitches are easier for controling your shape – I didn’t draw it on there first I just eye-balled it).
The other two little hearts include a Jenni Bowlin Hearts Plain Mini Chipboard Piece that I embossed with white Zing powder and a small heart cut from the 6×6 Fancy Pants Love Story paper pad and added a bit of Glossy Accents on top.
Along the bottom for the journaling section I stamped the “lots of love for you” design using silver ink from Colorbox Basics Cat’s Eye Classic Pigment Ink Queue. I tried a couple other inks with this stamp and it seemed that the chalk ink turned out the best. I drew the jouranling lines with a Sakura Pen Touch pen in silver and wrote my journaling using a Precision Pen from American Crafts.
Along the very bottom of the page I added another piece of the scalloped felt and a strip of that great heart paper from the 6×6 Fancy Pants Love Story paper pad. I used the Fiskars Scallop Border Punch to created the scallops along the pattern paper.
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Be sure to check the blogs of all taking part in the Blog Hop today:
As a thank you for all the comments received during the hop on all the blogs, as well as those left on the Technique Tuesday blog, we will give away two stamp sets.
One person will win Our Hearts by Ali Edwards stamp set and one other person will win our The Cupcakery stamp set. You don’t need to leave a comment on all the blogs to be eligible to win. All comments must be made by midnight PST on Jan. 13th. Tune into the Technique Tuesday blog on Jan. 14th to see if you are one of the lucky winners.
Love these stamps and your layout. The heart looks cool!!
Thanks for the chance to win the lovely stamps!
Such a fun layout. Loving all the hearts & stitching very sweet memory on this page LOVE it!
Love hearing/seeing your process. Embracing the end result even when it was not entirely what you hoped. Good to hear from someone else.
Fun photo! It’s like a picture within a picture – you could crop just the reflection in the mirror and have a sweet photo of your mom & Anna with the pretty curtain in the background.
Aw, Ali…don’t be hatin’! I love the stitched heart!
I like it just the way it is! Such a cute picture of your mom and Anna!
The whole thing is sorta perfectly messy, and that heart is a great accent. The scallops are balanced nicely on the page, after all the hearts have scallops too. Nice echo of the theme. The mark of a true artist is that their works are never done anyway
That’s my biggest hang-up! Sometimes you just have to say “moving on!”
I love it Ali!
Love the stamps and inspiration on the blog hop!
You can’t go wrong with stamps that convey Love!
Very nice Ali! TFS!
Such an adorable layout. I love the stitched heart and also your attitude to just “move on” even when something just doesn’t work for you. Will that heart bug you next year at this time; probably not.
So fun to see your experimentation! And thanks for the chance to win!
Now I “love these”! Just gorgeous. Your layout is cute and I love that you can move on – even when it is less than the perfect you like. Thanks for the inspiration.
The Stitched Heart is my FAVORITE part of the layout—that’s what got my attention and even before I read what you wrote about your layout–I thought to myself—”i love that big heart’
Love both of those stamp sets. And really really like the layout. I like the fact that you include yourself in the photo. Very nice!
Like how you describe your process — and your evaluation too. And that you can evaluate and move on –
Don’t fret over it. The layout is great and the new stamps are too!
I love it-thanks for the idea of stamping on the trim!
love this set — like both the “solid stamp” and the long strip — very versitile
I love the stamping on the scallop mistables: brilliant.
Loved this layout …perfect timing as I just ordered some mistables! I love the heart…it drew my eye right in to the focal point. I also love the way your in alot of the photos via a mirror. I take all our photos so I’m rarely in them – I’m really interested in taking some photos like that. Take care and as always thanks for the inspiration.
What a great set of stamps! The layout is amazing!!!
I have used the Pink Paislee scallops but never thought to stamp or write on them. How clever Ali!
i love the LO! the picture is great.
I like the “reflective” photo so that you are in the picture. I agree that the stitched heart wasn’t needed this time. But I also agree that you left it. It might seem better later. Thanks, Ali. Love your stamp designs.
Thanks for the chance to win!
When I first saw the layout my initial reaction was how much I love the neutrals (seriously cool) with the pops of colour and the texture..the texture is incredible. I think it looks great. And thanks for sharing your process Ali.
Love this stamp set can’t wait to get it for my own.
Pretty layout! Love the new stamp set.
Great layout, but I agree with you about the stiched heart – cute, but not the best placement… Love the story.
Your layout is great. I don’t think the placement of the heart makes it look bad, I think its perfect. It’s not covering anything important and I think it ties the generations together. FRONT and CENTER.
I’m loving your AE stamp sets! thanks for the chance to win.
Looks great!Thanks for the chance to win
Love ae stamps!
Love the layout and the big heart.
Love this layout, and the stamps! Gotta get my hands on that Love Story paper pad.
…Kohler may like that you stitched a big heart around their faucet…ha,ha,ha…just teasing! Still an awesome layout!
Would love one of your stamp sets…thanks for the great inspiration Ali–I’m a new grandma and so look forward to scrapping moments like this with my little Reagan-girl…
I love that you share when you don’t really like the end result of something. I personally think it’s beautiful! I love that fancy pants paper and I can’t wait to get my hands on it!
And I can’t wait until the 16th (that’s usually when I get my stamp set in the mail each month!
love this stamp! pick me…pick me….
I like that all of the elements are black and white with the little pink in the stitching. That is unusual for a layout about love. Love how you used the stamps and the layout. I think we are our own worst critics! Thanks for sharing.
Love this LO. I made my very first 8.5×11 page a couple of days ago and I loved it. Weird working with different dimensions but I loved the outcome. Thanks for sharing your LO with us!
Love all the love on the Blog Hop.
Love love the picture. My mother died the year before my daughter was born. Amazingly, my daughter was born six weeks early on my mothers birthday. Anna and you will greatly treasure and cherish these photos.
Love the new stamp! Also love love love the picture! Such a great idea for being in the picture as the photographer!
Lovely layout! It’s hard to belive your daughter is getting so big!
I love the stamp set! And I want to try adding fabric to one of my layouts, thanks for the inspiration! Thanks for the chance to win.
I really like this layout! The color scheme is so simple, but there’s so much texture and depth to it. I love that stitched heart as well as the other stitching, the fabric, etc. So sweet.
Love the stamp set, thanks for the chance to win
I love all of the layering in this layout!! Gorgeousness!!!!
Thanks for explaining how you made the layout, esp. using the chalk ink for the block stamp. I like the block style stamps – different.