Story Play | Love Story | Ali Project 01

Welcome back to Story Play | Love Story! 

I'm so excited to dive into this Story Play kit with you today. I love these kits so much because they are awesome for straight-forward storytelling and/or as a jumping off point for more crafty fun. 

When was the last time you got lost in your memories via your photos? Photos are LIFE. I spent some time going back in my archives as I was looking for photos of me and Aaron and it was simply the best. I also really loved seeing the videos that popped up when I searched via "people" in Photos. 

As you are looking back through your photos, think a little about the chapters of this particular love story. 

One of my favorite design formulas is a full page photo + a prompt page. For today's project I started off thinking I was going to go really simple but I ended up letting myself play a little more and enjoyed the process of playing around with the different things you could do with that pattern paper.

With this pattern paper you can:

• Cut out the squares to use them in a 2x2 pocket page protector. 
• Cut out the white portion and add text or a photo behind. 
• Crop a photo to 1.75 inches x 1.5 inches and add it on the white space. 
• Cut three sides of the white square and fold along the top to create a flip up. Use a 1 inch circle punch to punch out the partial circle along the bottom. 

Here's my process video of this page coming together. Let's dive in: 

Here are some close up images of this project: 

Chipboard piece + cut out heart from one of the 3x4 cards + a black POSCA Paint Pen on top. I added red/white twine through the hole on the chipboard tag and adhered the whole thing with foam adhesive. 

I had fun mixing and matching the treatment of the squares. Some I cut out completely (the ones with the text), some I folded up, and some I built on top (the folded photos with the twine). 

On the outside of the folded up portions (I used a 1 inch punch to remove part of the bottom of the white) I added a cut out heart (from the 3x4 journal card) and stamped "you + me" using the stamp set. 

The size of the white squares are 1.75 inches x 1.5 inches. 

On the underside of the flip-ups I added a few details using a brush pen. 

For the "first impression" spots I created flip-ups and used red/white twine to hold those in place. 

On the underside (these measure 1.75 inches wide x 3 inches tall) I stamped + embossed using red embossing ink. 

This was such a fun project to put together! 

SUPPLIES

• Story Play Love Story Kit (bundle also available)
• Story Play Love Story Stamp
• StazOn Ink
• 1 Inch Circle Punch
• Black POSCA Paint Pen
• Foam Adhesive Squares
• Paper Piercer
• Versamark Embossing Ink
• Red Embossing Powder
• Kuretake Brush Pen
• Red + White Twine
• Epson PictureMate PM400 Printer
• Craft Knife
• Metal Ruler
• 6 Hole Punch
• Additional basic supplies can be found via my Amazon Storefront