Moving along... lots to include these past few days.
I added letter/number stickers from an office supply store to both sides of the grid transparency to represent how many miles I ran in the half-marathon. I like these letter stickers because no matter what letters you're working with, they are the same size. This was perfect for the transparency because I didn't want anything "extra" to show through on the backside.
I painted a zig-zag pattern on the tabbed card. I used painter's tape and craft paint to get the effect. The journaling is a slightly edited version of text from this blog post. sidenote : I am enjoying pulling blog content from into this book. It's making it easier to get lots of text and stories incorporated.
On the backside of the tabbed card, I adhered a grid of photos that were taken with the ShakeIt app on my iPhone. I put them all together in PSE and printed at 4x6. A thick lululemon clothing tag was used as a "page" that shares the photobooth pictures Vern and I took after the race. I stapled them to green cardstock, trimmed the cardstock to size and adhered it to the back of the tag.
That little red thing is the chip I wore on my shoe to chart my time during the race. It's cute and fit in the book - done and done. The "pre-race" photo on the right is backed by the teal cardstock page.
Before I adhered the photo to the cardstock, I sewed a bunch of denim circles down. I recently cut a pair of old jeans into shorts and wanted to incorporate some of the leftover denim in this book. I freehand cut different sized circles then layered them on top of the paper (some showing the "front" of the material and some showing the "back".) I held them in place and carefully sewed on top of them with my sewing machine.
I used a piece of plastic packaging as a transparency and zig-zag stitched two 2x2 inch photos (adhered back to back) to it. This solution worked well because the photos could "float" on top of the circles on both pages. I like mirroring shapes in book spreads and the circles accomplish that. I added some text to the brown label (discontinued from Paper Source) and wrapped it around the bottom right of the page so it could still be seen while the transparency and photo were on the right side.
Behind the kraft circle paper, I incorporated another 8x6 photo. I really like these big photo spreads. This one is of our window sill plants. I adhered a piece of the plastic tag that came with our big pot of basil on top.
And that's that! Again - loving this project to the stars and back. At the rate I'm going, I'll be adding bigger book rings and additional pages before the end of June. To me, that's great news.
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