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Outfit to Scrabook: Fancy Country Girl

It's time to bring back one of my favorite blog features! It's been way too long since I've scrapbooked or done much creatively just for kicks and giggles. When I saw the femininely disheveled look of this outfit from Vanessa Jackman's streetstyle fashion blog, I thought it would be great inspiration for a scrapbook page. Here we go again!

  
To mimic the disheveled appearance of the outfit, I hand made a lot of details, by painting elements I had hand cut out of white cardstock. As a backdrop for my photos, I simply peeled the back off of a flap from a USPS flatrate box. Piercing the white journaling spots with a hole punch was a way to translate the pierced leather cowboy boots into another scrapbooking element. Stitching, paint splatters, and jagged lace create a backdrop similar to the pretty vintage dress from the photo.

With a lot of leftover materials and a little bit of paint, the transformation from outfit to scrapbook page was simple, easy, and fun!

Arts & Crafts | An Anniversary Book

After four years of marriage, what's a wife to do? (Okay, okay... what's a sweet G-rated thing she can do?) Well, you could write a cute blog post including photos from your wedding, make a scrapbook page about your anniversary date, or, I suppose, if you're a really good wife, you could put together a little book detailing special memories from the past years.

Since I'm a really good wife, that's exactly what I did! (No need to get all squinty-eyed, either, because I left out the juicy details. Those will be discussed over dinner. And maybe reenacted after dinner.)

Outfit to Scrapbook: 90's Flower Child

Sometimes I wish I could turn my scrapbooking supplies into outfit materials. But since that's impossible, this amazing outfit was top on my list to turn into a scrapbook page. Check out those '90s trousers and that amazing shirt! To start out my page, I painted white cardstock with some paint I mixed up to match the peachy-pink of the shirt's stripes.

Next, I added black stamping to tie in the black elements of the outfit. Since the color picture I used matched the colors of the girl's trousers, I only used a bit of floral paper. Lighter floral on the top, and darker floral on the bottom. The kraft paper frame and buttons tied in the last elements I wanted to use from the outfit. Next step? Find some amazing pants just like hers!

Materials: Bazzil cardstock | foam stamps | Jenni Bowlin patterned paper | buttons |ink pad | acrylic paints 
Outfit: Fashionist

Outfit to Scrabook: Pretty and Eclectic

The approachably pretty vibe of this outfit is outstanding. What a lovely ensemble to use as inspiration for a modern scrapbook page about Elizabeth Taylor, yeah?

To translate the outfit into a scrapbook page, I mostly drew from the color scheme. There is a bit of floral and black & white pattern going on too, but in dealing with photos, sometimes it's best to keep patterns down to a minimum. I thought including this clipping from a vintage magazine would really give it that graphic modern punch. And Lord knows, Elizabeth adds her fair share of pretty to this layout!

supplies: scrap vinyl, vintage magazine clippings, yellow and white cardstock, and floral patterned paper from Sassafras.

image: We the People