Fright Night Alert | Design Team: Junell Kruzel
Hello all! Junell here on the blog today and I know I don’t have to tell you that sometimes life is not all glimmers; sometimes really bad stuff happens and we’re forced to deal with it. I experienced that this past week when there was a chemical plume hazmat situation in my neighborhood. Something that was never on my radar of “things to worry about”. But here we were at 2 in the morning on a Wednesday being forced to decide whether to stay or leave our home. And, like a lot of you, I’m sure, I use scrapbooking to deal with hard things to help process the events.
This layout is mostly digital, using Canva. I imported my photos and photos that I grabbed from the internet. I wanted a large picture on the left showing exactly what happened and then on the right I added Polaroid frames (free in Canva) and added photos and screenshots into the middle. Canva is super simple, easy to use, and free. Feel free to message me if you’d like more detailed information on how I crated it. I also digitally added my journaling in the black area of the photo on the left and printed it out on matte photo paper.
The next thing I did was stamp my title using the Glimmer Alpha right on top of the journaling. I used Brilliance Moonlight White ink, and the matte photo paper sucked the ink right up, so I did have to stamp 2-3 times and then even go over a few areas with a Posca paint pen to get the title as white as I wanted it. But I think it turned out okay.
I then went through the Out of Print Everyday Edition sticker book and pulled out all the “negative” phrases that expressed the feeling of that night. I stacked them up inside the plume of chemicals and then also in the spaces on the Polaroid frames. I love how graphic and “news” like this page turned out!
Well, I’m hoping that these anti-glimmer layouts are few and far between for both you and me! I guess the glimmer in all this is that we have such great products from Layle By Mail that we have available to help us document the good and the bad! Thanks for reading and you can find more of my layouts here on Instagram.
Products used:
Out of Print Everyday Edition Words and Phrases sticker book