Studio J Online Boot Camp Day 5

Sugar and Spice

Kit: Sophia
Pattern: Studio J: Performance
Photos: 3 vertical
Kit mix 3

Techniques:

• Layering My Stickease to create a single image
• Journaling on photos
• Creating unique titles by using multiple text boxes to mix fonts and sizes

Michelle's note: As you personalize your layout and make it your own, keep in mind that one of the main techniques is learning to cluster the My Stickease.  If you change the paper colors too much, the My Stickease images won't work because they don't change color.  I recommend that you keep the Pear and Goldrush colors somewhere in your layout.  The Honey and Chocolate papers are changeable.  As you can see on mine, I chose to change the Honey papers and ribbon to Pacifica and it still worked.

One more note from Michelle:  This pattern is a member's only pattern.  You will need to purchase a membership if you want to use this pattern.  If you aren't ready to make that decision yet, feel free to choose another pattern and adjust as necessary.  Click here to find out more about membership benefits.

Putting the layout together:

1. Drop photos in wells.
2. Drop floral dot B&T into top horizontal strip. Change color to Pear.
3. Drop cardstock into left most vertical strip (left page). Change the color to Chocolate.
4. Change B&T to Honey (I chose Pacifica instead)
5. Change color of bracket-shaped cardstock piece to White Daisy
6. Change bottom of cardstock strip to Goldrush
7. Add 1/8" Chocolate mats to each photo.
8. Delete title and journaling wells.

Finishing Touches:

1. Turn off toggle accents 
2. Add the following My Stickease images to left page, rotating, cropping, and resizing as desired. Right click to bring layers forward or send backwards as needed.
1. chain (Large Accents) at 45%
2. birdcage (Large Accents) at 45%
3. three tulip flourishes (Large Accents) at 25%
4. green bird (Large Accents) at 30%
5. rosebud flourish (Large Accents) at 60%
6. rosebud border (Borders) at 100%
3. Add the following My Stickease images to right page, rotating, cropping, and resizing as desired. Right click to bring layers forward or send backwards as needed.
1. tulip flourish (Large Accents) at 65%
2. green bird (Large Accents) at 100%
3. two rosebud flourishes (Large Accents) at 60%, 100%
4. rosebud border (Borders) at 100%
4. Create title as follows:
1. "sugar" in 85 pt. Tickled font, no background, Chocolate text
2. "spice" in 85 pt. Tickled font, no background, Chocolate text
3. "and" in 35 pt. Memo font, no background, Chocolate text
5. Create journaling in scaled Tickled font, no background, Chocolate text, center-aligned. (Michelle's note: Since the journaling didn't quite fit my photos, I either had to change the journaling completely...which would change the title...OR I could be creative.  As you can see, I chose to play and be creative by crossing out the "girls" and adding "boys".  Diana Veenendaal taught me how to do this and I will teach you.  Create two journaling areas.  In each text box, instead of writing text, just do an underscore "_______" to create a line.  Set the journaling box for no background, rotate and place over the word "girls" accordingly to create the X. Then, create a third journaling box and type the word "boys". Again, no background and use the same scale font as your main text.  Rotate and place as desired. Thanks Diana!)
6. Add the date on photo in scaled Tickled font, no background, text color of choice.
7. Add Pear buttons and White Daisy thread as follows, rotating and resizing as desired:
1. left page: 5/8", 1/2"
2. right page: 5/8", 3/4"
8. Add Honey ribbons (I did Pacifica) as follows, rotating, resizing, and cropping as desired:
1. left page: centered knotted ribbon at 100% and flat knot at 110%
2. right page: centered knotted ribbon at 100% and flat knot at 110%
9. Distress all papers except Chocolate and White Daisy cardstock with sponge. Change distressing color to Chocolate and intensity to 60%