I’m on a roll with my “40 PAGES” series right now so I’ve decided to just go with it. I still have plans to continue with the other categories in my 4 series of 40 but since I’m in a scrapbooking groove right now, I’ll keep going! One of my goals this year is to use up the scrapbook kits that have been piling up so that’s what I’ve been working on over the past couple of weeks. Today I’m sharing the 7th page I made with Studio Calico’s Park Ave kit and it feels so good to use up a kit. I still have some supplies left but put them away and am calling this kit “used up”. 7 layouts from one kit sounds like a good number in my book!
When I first open a kit, I usually pick several layouts I want to scraplift and then figure out how to make it happen. I often end up choosing several layouts that use the same paper or embellishments so it’s like a fun puzzle to figure out how I can divide up the supplies to create all of the layouts on my list. With the Park Ave kit, the paper with the buildings was my favorite and a lot of the layouts I wanted to lift used that paper. Somehow, I found a way to create all of the pages on my list with just one sheet of that paper. All that’s left now is a little tiny scrap so I definitely got some good mileage out of it!
The page I’m sharing today is a lift of Natalie Elphinstone’s sweet page from her December gallery at Studio Calico. I’ve become a big fan of Natalie’s work over the last year and have added many of her layouts to my inspiration board. When I saw the single row of buildings she used towards the top of her layout, it reminded me of the Painted Ladies in San Francisco so I decided to pull a photo from our trip there several years ago. The photo I chose was actually taken at the bottom of Lombard street rather than at the colorful row of houses but it’s still the same city and I think the reference still works. I’m happy with how it turned out and really love that other designers’ work is inspiring me to scrapbook some older photos so they can be included in my albums!
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