BEE-UTIFUL TN Layout | Design Team: Junell Kruzell
Hello everyone! Junell here on the blog today! Not a fan of bees! Never thought I’d ever use a bee die cut in my scrapbooking, but here I am, documenting an ordinary moment, a quiet moment, in which I saw a bee on a pretty flower and thought to take a picture.
The pink striped paper was the perfect shade to complement this photo, so I cut it to size to fit my travelers notebook and then cut a white piece of card stock to align down the center. I used Kitsch Flamingo Distress Oxide to edge the paper to make it stand out.
I created a cluster to adhere to the top of the photo using another die cut and rub-on. I used the oval from the Destination Unknown Mini Stamp set to stamp an oval and then used the metal die to cut it out. I stamped a sentiment on top from the Documenting the Details 2 stamp set and popped it up on foam to give it some dimension and added another die cut and some gold dots to pretty it up!
I then started working on my title. I used the Poe Alpha Large Lower Case and more Kitsch Flamingo Distress Oxide to stamp my title vertically to give the page some interest. Of course, I had to go with the bee theme for my title! I love adding subtitles to my layout and did that with the tiny, tiny Frankie Alpha. And then I added my journaling.
Now for the most beautiful bee die-cut I’ve ever seen! I added foam dots to the back to give it some lift. I added a rub-on above it that captured the essence of my journaling and then more gold dots. There is an itty, bitty, little star stamp in the Frankie Alphabet stamp set and I used that to sprinkle around the bee. I also used a stamp from the Documenting the Details 2 stamp set that has a pen making pen marks. I inked up the pen mark portion to stamp to give the bee some “movement”. It now looks like the bee is buzzing around my page!
I hope I inspired you to document some “ordinary, quiet” moments along with the big events with this page! Thanks for reading and you can find more of my layouts here on Instagram.
Products used:
Destination Unknown Mini Alpha
Destination Unknown Mini Oval Metal Die