Today I'm featuring my layout created with The Urban Scrapbook's April kit, which is comprised of the gorgeous, deeply coloured Bobunny collection "Weekend Market".
Lynette designed another wonderful sketch that is included in this kit, which is for sale now in the store. Jan is the talented artist at Urban who puts these kits together, and she included a number of products from this collection: Jewels, Buttons and the Combo Stickers....
The flavour of these papers seems to be travel, however, one sticker on the wonderful sticker sheet caught my attention, and thus my design was born.
Instead of travel, I decided to design a layout about reading. I am an avid reader....and I'm happy to say that all of our children are as well. The public library is our second home :)
But in the last couple of years, BoyGenius has spent more time with the XBox and computer than books. Sigh. This has been tough for me to watch, but I've been patient and am excited to report that during our Spring Break holiday last week, he finally decided to read a novel I gave him at Christmas. (It has been collecting dust on his night table for 3 months. Bigger sigh.)
The world is right again. He is reading! I celebrated by designing this page....
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| "Reading is your ticket to travel the world." |
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| I attempted to create a bookshelf with the corrugated paper. I took photos of the books then placed them in the "shelves" as cut-outs. |
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| The tag is made with Coredinations paper, which looks great when you emboss it. And this is the sticker that inspired my design. |
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| The "ticket" journaling strip is mounted on a wooden ticket (but I forgot to source this element!) |
Of course, I didn't run and get my camera when he picked up that book! I knew that wouldn't help the situation. This photo is from our summer RV trip (one and only) from 2 years ago. We had no technology on our trip, so reading became our favourite past time. Coincidentally, in this photo he is reading a book by the same author of his current book, a wonderful fantasy series called Eragon....about an amazing world of dragons, written by Christopher Paolini, who wrote the first edition when he was 16!
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That might not be considered "cool," so I will leave it on the shelf for now.
In a few days I will post another layout of BoyGenius....this time using Canadian Scrapbooker magazine's April Sketchy Challenge.
Wishing all of you a lovely Easter....and hope you have time on the long weekend to make friends with a good book!
You did such an awesome job with this kit! I chose it as the feature layout this month for the store kits!
ReplyDeleteKelly, I love this, also love reading and isn't it so hard to get those teenagers to read LOL! Harry Potter, we have sooo much in common, take care and have a fantastic Easter x
ReplyDeleteTerrific page and a wonderful celebration of reading. I love the bookshelf you created. I have to say: I'm the kind of mom who gives books for Christmas too. In fact, I have it on good authority that my 3-year-old will find a book in his Easter basket!
ReplyDeleteAmazing work once again! Very creative!
ReplyDeleteAwesome Lo Kelly! The tag is gorgeous! I have that Coordinations pp and now you've made me wanna go dig it out! You always come up with the coolest ideas! And that bookshelf? LOOOOOVE it! Great idea. You did a fab job with this kit dear friend!
ReplyDeleteKelly, WHAT an AMAZING LO!!! LOVE your work with Bo Bunny's Weekend Market collection. What an inspiration!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's a great photo to start and certainly an admirable family trait! Happy Easter Kelly!
ReplyDeleteOh what a wonderful page! There's just so much detail and texture here...you've created this warm and masculine scene!
ReplyDeleteyou really rock at boy/manly pages!!!
ReplyDeleteHi dear friend !!
ReplyDeleteWow, this is outstanding masculine page....so many beautiful elements to look at :)
Hugs carla