Memory keeping with Everyday Happiness

 Hello long time no posting 🫣 It's been super busy here at Cary's Creative Table.  One of the fun things that has been happening is our monthly memory keeping class/crop. Now I'm in no way a scrapbooker but I am really enjoying creating samples for this fab group of crafters. As an avid card maker stepping into the new and exciting creative outlet I'm learning as I go!. I'm developing my own style as I create more samples for the sessions. And of course I'm learning from the wonder crafters who join me! I held a pole and the group chose the papers. For this month's session they chose  the beautiful Everyday Happiness pattern papers and sticker sheet.

These papers have a beautiful  colour palette of soft teals and greys with pops of sandy/ gold yellow. The mix of geometric and floral patterns make for lots of inspiration. 

The coordinating sticker sheet is a full 30.5cm x 30.5cm size. The stickers are lightweight cardstock, self adhesive and sized just right for scrapbooking.  The selection of images, tags and places to journal work so well together and with the beautiful papers.

What I'm learning on my memory keeping journey is that I approach it in much the same way as I do an A6 card! I like open space, diagonals and favor a more clean and simple look... although this double page spread isn't particularly clean and simple 🤣

This first page has just 1 large photo but lots of stamping and die cut out flowers! The stamps and coordinating dies are called Everyday You and Me. The coloured cardstock is a Two-tone cardstock. Meaning that one side is a true colour and the other is a lighter verification it. This layout uses the soft grey colour called Gray Granite. 

The large foliage sprigs are stamped in gray granite ink onto the light side of the cardstock panel. The florals are stamped using the mid and darker shades of teal called Lost Lagoon and Pretty Peacock. 

For the second page I  mirrored the cardstock and added 3 spaces for photos and/ or journalling.  

A top tip for when adding embellishments over the corner of photo mats is to add a piece of cardstock that covers the area but only adhere it the the outer edges with a very thin strip of adhesive. The embellishments can the be adhered to the cover piece but still allow a photo to be slipped in.

The addition of the 2 large diagonal pieces of cardstock also allow for the creation of pockets to allow you to add extra photos, journalism and or ephemera. 

The pages are what is called a double page layout.  These pages would work either way . With the paper in the center of the cardstock.

These memory keeping events are a firm favourite of mine.  Especially because everyone creates their own version of the inspiration and/or takes the materials and crafts their own beautiful and unique pages.