Guest designer at Jenni Bowlin studios - Project #2

For my second project for Jenni Bowlin Studios, I decided to go with some travel pics that I had of my daughter and her boyfriend. These were already printed in 3 X 4 for use with Project Life, but I ended up using other photos instead of these. I had kept these because I knew I wanted to do a layout with them eventually. Looks like that time is now. :)

I thought the arrow paper was a great visual to use with travel pics, especially since these pics were all roadside, kind of random shots that aren't about one thing in particular. I also cut apart the square paper because it had references to travel on it, and I thought it'd make great embellishments. I cut those things out and started playing around a little bit. As you can tell, I like to use strips of paper to tie things together, so I used a pop of yellow cardstock to combine the chalkboard paper and the arrow paper. It also picks up the yellow from the square embellishment pieces.

I liked the idea of using the heart shape diecut with You cut out, but I wasn't sure where it would work. I moved it around the layout a few times before making a decision.

I finally ended up using it on the top left of the layout to serve as  part of my title treatment. You Travel is really the title of the page.

I moved the title treatment to the middle of the page and thought about it a while. Nope, didn't like that. Back to the top left it goes.

Then I considered moving the pics around again. Nope, too straight and rigid. I didn't like the feel of that, so I reverted back to the two pairs of tilted photos. (Changing my mind and playing around takes me a lot of time as I'm working, but I do think that it's part of the fun.)

Yes, this is the layout I like. Guess it's time to start adhering things permanently.

I needed a little bit of journaling space, so I cut some strips of yellow cardstock and wrote on them. The buttons kind of mimic car wheels or skateboard wheels, so I thought that fit with my theme pretty well. I thought the bold patterned cardstock echoed the arrow theme and that the gold diecut pieces looked sort of like suns.

I challenged myself to use a stencil, even though I'm not really comfortable with them. I used black paint with my stencil, but I think I would've liked it better if I'd used ink and a blending tool. Putting that on my shopping list!

Notice that I used some cork hearts to tie together the title treatment and the arrow. I also repeated the buttons under the title treatment to tie it to the buttons with the journaling.

Here's the finished product:

I'll be sharing three more projects this week using items from Jenni Bowlin Studios. Be sure to check them out!