My husband and I went on a cruise in January 2012, and I haven’t even made a dent in my scrapbook. I took a little time this week to play around with the Tommy Paper Packet*.
After placing the blue B&T Duo™ {that I stitched} at the base of the cardstock, the White Daisy Cardstock seemed too bright. Using Honey Exclusive Ink™ and the My Hero Stamp Set I created a pattern on the white cardstock. The My Hero Stamp Set is one of the seven hostess exclusive stamp sets available in the Spring/Summer 2014 Idea Book. As an added incentive to hostesses, there are now stamp sets that are exclusively available to hostesses only! And to make it even better….they are discounted!!
Onto the embellishments…..I layered a couple tags from K & Company, using a sponge dauber and Outdoor Denim Exclusive Ink™ to define the edges of the tag. The title and little birdies come from the Tommy Complements*, and the pennants are from the Tommy Assortment*. The subtitle towards the top of the page was created using the Keyboard Uppercase Stamp Set and Outdoor Denim Exclusive Ink™.
The journaling is hidden underneath the red tag. I’ll simply cut a slit in my page protector and slide the top portion of the oval through the slit for easy reading. I’m not a fan of my handwriting, but I think it is important to include it in my scrapbooks. I like the look of the typed journaling, but then I think about how special the items that have my great-grandma’s handwriting on them. I think about how disappointing it would be to see those words typed, and I’m hoping my scrapbooks will be passed down through the generations!! There is just something so personal about a handwritten message, and I hope my great-great-great grandchildren will feel the same when they are flipping through my scrapbooks.
{*=retired product}
This scrapbook page is linked to the Heart 2 Heart So Very Nauti (Cool) Challenge.
-Kelly
Papercrafting with Kelly Janes 
I am so in agreement with you, I hate to see my writing on my pages and tend to type all my journaling but like you, I love to see the personal touch of my mother, grandmothers and previous generations writings so I am sure to include my own writing from time to time too. As for the layout, great job, I always love seeing layouts for the challenges! I love how you did the title and the flags are so cute and fun!
Thank you, Brandi!! 🙂 I appreciate those wonderful compliments! I really do LOVE the look of typed journaling!! It gives scrapbook pages such a clean/neat feel!! I’ve yet to type any of my journaling on my traditional scrapbook pages. For the reasons I listed in my blog post, but also because if I didn’t do it in the moment I don’t know if I’d ever get back to it!! haha!! My pages would be sitting without any journaling!! haha! Thanks for stopping by and checking out my artwork! 🙂
Super cute layout! I too love how you did the journaling 🙂
Thanks for playing at H2H
Thanks, Jen!! 🙂
Love your layout! Great job journaling and love how you used the Nauti(cool) theme from H2H. Thanks for playing along.
Thank you, Shirley!!!! Loved this theme!! 🙂
Such a great layout! I like how you textured the background. That white can definitely be too stark sometimes. Thanks for taking the Nauti{cool} H2H challenge!
Thank you so much, Haley!!!
I just LOVE seeing layouts submitted for our challenges! Thanks for linking up this very Nauti(cool) layout to H2H’s Challenge!
Thanks, Katy!!!!! 😀
Wonderful layout! I love your journaling tag. Thanks for playing along with us at H2H!
Thank you!!! 🙂
This is a great layout. Congrats on being picked for top 10 with H2H. (Love the stitching, btw!)
Thank you so much, Casandra!! It’s such an honor to be chosen!!