May You Stay

Paper: Jenni Bowlin Studios, Basic Grey Curio, Cosmo Cricket Togetherness, Sassafras Indie Girl.

Alphas: Cosmo Cricket. Embellishments: Sassafras Indie Girl banner stickers, Scenic Route chipboard, 

clear envelope, Jenni Bowlin journaling stickers, buttons, pearls. 

Other: Mister Huey 'Calico White', Maya Mist 'silver plated'

The song "Forever Young" by Bob Dylan has some really lovely lyrics don't you think?
Don't worry, I didn't really know them before now either. But they're the challenge prompt at Get Picky this month so they were all written out for me to be inspired by.

But instead of just taking one line of the song, or the title (which would have been easy too) I just decided the whole song would make beautiful journaling so copied it en masse onto my layout! The lyrics could easily have been written by a mum to her young child and talk about all her hopes and prayers for her future. At least that's how I've interpreted them for my layout :-) 

I titled my layout "Listen to my Heart", a bit like the Roxette song "Listen to your Heart" since I was in the zone of interpreting songs for my page. It fit perfectly because this really is my heart for my Little Moodles (and plus, it also fit the criteria for the challenge at Bird is the Word!!!)

I used my favourite white and silver mists to spray some subtle stars in the background. They really are a lot more subtle than this to look at straight-on, but I was trying to capture the shimmer for you here :-) This was in response to my favourite line in the song which says "May you build a ladder to the stars And climb on every rung"

A week in 40 pages?

Can you believe that's how many pages my "Week in the Life" album ended up having??! Shheeeesh!
Of course, I'm not going to bore you with all 40 pages, and I have already shared a few pages here. So I'll just show you a couple more in their completed form to give you an overview of what my album looks like:

Feel free to click on the pictures to get a larger view of all the details (and journaling, if your eyesight is that good!)

My pages are approximately 5 x 7.5" and all the photos are 2 x 3"
All the base pages are cut randomly from manilla folders, envelopes, packaging, filing cabinet folders..... basically anything that was about to go in my recycling bin ended up as a page in my album instead!

I really wanted to go for an 'artsy' look and have used lots of non-scrapbook supplies like doilies, lace, washi tape, security envelopes, packaging and whatever I could find within arm's reach while I was putting it all together. I've used my new doily stamp in a lot of places, and have sewn on most of the pages too.

As far as 'real' scrapbooking supplies go, I've used nearly my whole book of American Crafts clear stickers and Scenic Route labels, and scraps of whatever paper was hanging around - mainly Kaisercraft and Sassafras Lass. I've put all my paper punches to good use, especially my new and favourite Martha Stewart ones.

I also used all my kawaii supplies I bought from Pretty Tape's etsy, which I blogged about here. That includes the ninja rabbits and Korean girl stickers. Loooooovvee :-)

If you have any more questions please feel free to ask them!
Thanks for sharing my week with me :-)