Every time I walk into Chapters, I see this pillow and it makes me smile 🙂
I love those watercolour rainbow stripes and the simple black script telling me to “be amazing”. It just makes me happy! It was my  inspiration for this week’s AE Digital Creative Team layout.
This is a two page 6×8 spread with a little surprise!
On the left, I used a set of water colour paints for painting some wide stripes on a piece of matte photo paper. I enlarged one of the cards from Ali Edwards’ “Love Notes 3×4” digital cards onto a 6 x 8 canvas in Photoshop Elements. Once the paint had dried, I printed the design right onto my painted page and cropped it down to 6×8. I added some gold sequins and stars to the page protector, and a little gold chipboard heart from Studio Calico’s Scrapbook Kit “Cirque”. (Once I figure out what I’m going to put on the other side of this page, I’ll sew the pocket up to keep the sequins inside.)
I had some fun playing with the picture on the right side of this spread! I’ve got a couple shots similar to these ones, but the two I chose lined up perfectly to create a little before/after flap of Emily playing peek-a-boo behind the living room curtains 🙂  The left side of the spread was so colourful, I decided to make these pictures black and white. I printed them both as 6 x 8 photos on 8.5×11 glossy photo paper and cropped them down to size. For the photo on the top, I cropped an extra 2 inches or so off the left hand side. I tucked the smaller photo into a 6×8 page protector and customized the size by stitching it to the seam on the right hand side of the main photo’s page protector (keeping the seem close to the photo), then cut off the extra bit with my paper trimmer. I added a clear index tab to the flap as a little prompt to “open the page”. 
On the flip side of the little photo, I repeated the water colour painting with a skinnier brush and added another one of the sentiments included in the 3×4 Love Notes digital cards (erasing the Dear ___, and Love___,). It’s a fun little page and it makes me smile, just like that pillow!
Thanks so much for stopping by today!
Pam
