Hey everyone! I have a new pocket page spread up at Kerri Bradford Studio this week. This is a 6x12" pocket page spread that will go in my personal album, and I added in a 4x11" insert as well.
With our recent move a few months ago came lots and lots of projects that needed doing once we were in the new-to-us house. Little projects and big projects. I had lots of help on many of the projects from my very handy family - my mom can fix/build just about anything, my brother is the same, and my dad is a pro at the outdoor/yard stuff. But I'm also proud to say that I took on a ton of the projects myself, as I'm the handy one in our little family.
I realized I had quite a few photos I had taken while working on these projects, and thought it would be fun to create a pocket page spread about some of the projects that I both tackled AND accomplished.
I printed my photos as 3x3's and 3x4's and slipped them into the pockets, leaving a few empty so that I could add in my title card and a few filler cards. I decided to go digital with these cards, using a mix of Kerri's designs and a few digital papers that I happen to have in my digital collection.
To create my title card, I used a graph patterned paper for the background, along with a small strip of woodgrain patterned paper along the bottom. I used the PNG file for "currently", taken from the Grammar School: The Adverbs kit, and added in "all the things" using the Digital Stamps: Home kit to create the main part of my title (I added the "fixing and building" using the text tool and a fun font).
I cropped the What's Next digital card into a 3x3" square, and used it as is in one pocket. I decided to put it in the bottom right corner of the second page of the spread - kind of like "ok, I'm done with all of these projects, so what's next?" ;)
I wanted a black background to go with the Can't Stop Me, so I copied part of the black distressed background from the "What's Next" card and sized it to fit my 3x4" background before adding the "Can't Stop Me" PNG file (which I changed to white) to complete my filler card.
I also printed a 1x4" strip of that same black distressed part of the What's Next card to add to the top of my larger 4x8" photo that I printed for the backside of the insert page.
I added some tiny alpha stickers from Making Memories along the top, tucking them under the top edge of the photo.
I printed my journaling to fit the 4x11" insert. I was originally going to make it a 4x12" insert, but I realized I had some 8.5x11 page protectors, and decided to cut down one of those instead of a full 12x12" page protector. I machine stitched down the side of the journaling card, and then trimmed off the excess to make the custom sized page protector.
On the front side of the insert, I added my journaling page, adding a strip of the woodgrain digital patterned paper that I used on the title card. Try and ignore the extra holes from when I stapled the woodgrain paper in the wrong spot, making my page too short for the page protector. Lol.
I had one more 3x3" pocket to fill, so I created a background using the woodgrain digital patterned paper, and added the cute sketch house from the Digital Stamps: Gather kit (which I changed to white).
I love pulling Kerri's designs together, both her cut files (and the PNG's that go with them) and her digital stamps, to fit the needs of whatever project I'm working on. There are times when I'm all about working with physical papers and products, and using my Silhouette to die cut designs - and there are times when I'm all about working digitally, using Photoshop to create what I need. And I love that Kerri's designs offer the flexibility to be used in so many ways!
We are glad to have been a part of the moving process. The house is cute and you've made it so much more colorful and warm. You've a great eye for design and color. The pictures tell a story and shoe so much of the before, during, and after. Love it.
Posted by: John Vonhof | March 09, 2019 at 12:39 PM