Kerri Bradford Studio: Senior Year

Hey everyone! I had a new layout go up at Kerri Bradford Studio yesterday, and I'm here to share it with you today as well. Since Sarah just graduated high school a little over a month ago, I thought it would be fun to flashback a bit and scrap some photos that we had taken at the beginning of her senior year. It's crazy how fast the year went by. In fact, it's crazy how fast high school went by. I had several friends tell me that once your child starts high school, the time will fly by faster than ever, and they were right. Sigh.

I love a good photo collage, and this layout was the perfect opportunity to create one. I used a template from Kerri's Picture That [Squared] kit, and collaged five of my favorite photos from that day together. I love photo collages for many reasons. But one of the biggest reasons I love them, is that instead of working with five individual photos and figuring out their placement - I'm working with one larger "photo", and I can basically design the page around that photo/collage. 

I'm a huge fan of white cardstock and patterned paper, so to mix things up a bit, I tried to use mostly colored cardstock on this layout. I do have a hard time using cardstock plain, or as-is. But there's easy ways to add a little something-something to it. Misting always helps, and I love to use my Heidi Swapp mists on most of my cardstock and patterned papers.

I also love to add texture to cardstock by running pieces thru an embossing folder. It adds a ton of texture and interest, with minimal effort. I have a wide variety of embossing folders, and they're something I need to remind myself to use more often.

For my title, I used Kerri's School Years: Add Ons kit, and die cut "senior year" from two colors of cardstock to layer together. I have a bad habit of losing the dots to my i's, which I tend to mention every time I use a die cut title containing an "i", so I added a brown enamel dot instead. 

To break up the heaviness of the colored cardstock pieces, I die cut a circle background on a strip of green cardstock using a cut file from Kerri's Life Additions: Backgrounds kit. This allowed some extra white to come thru, from the white cardstock that I built my layout on. 

I did work in two small pieces of patterned paper, which is the brown and white dotted pattern from Studio Calico. And I also randomly came across an old overlay from Hambly, with the brown leaves, and decided to add a piece of that in as well. 

One of these days, I'll have to finish editing the photos we took at the end of her senior year and then get those scrapped as well. 

Comments

[Mendi Yoshikawa]

Very cool! Love all your colors together--So pretty!

[mandyb]

love it...and ohhhhhhh where have the years gone for sure

[Ali]

Hi Laura, I like to see the "real" scrapbook pages you make rather than the project life pages- keep 'em coming :) I am curious about your photo collages... once you have designed them how do you go about printing them? I have started using the app you recommend (free prints) and have been pleased with the photos, but they are all 4x6. Thanks

[Sandra B.]

Interesting page, as always. What size is your collage?

[Diane Alberts]

Love this layout!!!