You Are My Forever Love (Always)

I'm back with another BEAUTIFUL case from CSI : Color, Stories, Inspiration!!

Here's the Case File :

I just have to say how much I LOVED this combo! While not colours I would normally put together, they are beautiful together.

And here's what I made with it :

Recently, my husband and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary. We didn't really have any photos done together at that time that I really liked, but we did have photos taken together when my parents were celebrating their 45th anniversary. This is one of them and it's definitely one of my favorites.

Here's how I solved this case:

COLOURS

All the colours are there with the addition of a little bit of black & gold to accent.

EVIDENCE

Text Pattern - leaf
Clips - green at the end of the brown ruler strip
Clothespins
Leaves & Flowers
Stamps
Buttons
Tags
String
Ruler
Clipboard

TESTIMONY

I chose the presentation prompt "Write on a tag" for this page, and THIS pin inspired the actual journaling.

Journaling

To find out how many days we have been a couple, I entered the date we started dating & the day I did the journaling into an online days calculator. Then I typed my sentence into Word, printed it out on a 8.5x11 sheet of paper, then held it up to my window and attached my tag to the paper over top of the print out. I then put the paper BACK into the printer and printed it out again, removing the tag from the paper after it was done to use on my page.

The inspiration for the tag journaling treatment with the bows came from page #32 of the Fall 2017 Scrapbook and Cards Today magazine.

Here's some closeups of my page :

This shows my title work a little closer. The first part of my title was created using part of a Heidi Swapp stamp. The stamp itself is the phrase "You Are My Sunshine" but I chose to just use the first three words. The "Forever" word was part of a set I bought from Micheals and the "Love" word was from a Bible Journaling die cut pack. I love it when I find small things in my stash that fit with my page, and the tiny clothespin with the word 'Always' on it was one of them this time. To finish it off, and because I'm loving using gold right now, I faux-sewed the self-adhesive chipboard heart to the "Love" word die cut. The leaf very handily satisfied 2 separate clues, plus I really liked how it curls at the end. At the last minute I added the gold ball trim using a thin line of Gorilla Glue.

Also, inspired by the clipboard in the photo, I tried to make my photo mat look a little bit like a piece of paper on a clipboard. The safety pin takes the place of the clip at the top, and the double framing in white representing the board & paper. I stamped the day I did the journaling at the bottom of the photo mat.

Here's a closer look at my journaling tag. Underneath it you can just see the red '20' that is highlighted by the green clip. That's a play on our anniversary year. The little gold heart in the corner is a small brad. Also, you can faintly see that my background paper is a subtle wood grain pattern.

Here's a quick look at the lower right hand corner. I found these 3 little stickers in my stash and felt like they belonged on this layout. I chose to place them there to make a visual triangle with my other black accents (the love die cut & the leaf). In fact, I've used a visual triangle in more than one place on this layout - the wood pieces (flower, word & clothespin), the gold accents in multiple places, and the three green things (solid cardstock photo mat, striped paper & clip) are some examples. Using this technique really helps your eye move around your page. I really like the texture that ripping your paper can add to a page, so I most often will do that on my pages at least once.

Thanks for popping by and checking out my page today!! I hope you'll join us in solving this beautiful case!!