Are you ready to use up a few items in your craft stash? This month, I am using up some long-retired items that have been collecting dust in my craft space and I’m going to show you how I created a Farm Fieldtrip layout for the Love Your Stash Challenge. Our Creative Design Team has been creating some projects all year long using items from our stash and we are encouraging you to play along.
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Some of you might recognize a few of the elements I used on my Farm Games layout. These collections have been retired for a few years now – before my time as a Maker – but I was a habitual collector of CTMH items at that time and happened to get my hands on a few fun items.
The papers, icons, and die cuts I used on this layout come from the Jubilee and Dakota collections. If you have a few of these items in your stash, now is the time to dust them off and make something new.
This layout is a combination of photos from two field trips. Our son switched schools partway through his first-grade year. At the first school, they visited a farm in the fall and, after we moved, he had the opportunity to visit the same farm in the spring with his new classmates.
Many of the photos on this layout were taken by him. When our children were younger, we would send them with a disposable camera. It was always quite the adventure picking up the film from the developer and finding out what they took photos of.
On this layout, I cut out quite a few images from one of the pattern papers in the Jubilee collection. The paper was a bit too busy for my taste, but it was full of some amazing images and icons, so I chose to cut out the items individually and use them on the layout.
I often do this with busier paper patterns. You may have a few papers in your collection with flowers, borders, or even flags that you can cut out and use on a page. We often avoid using them because of their loud patterns. I suggest that you take another look at them, because, as you can see, this design is full of flags and images that I cut from the pattern papers.
To add some texture to the pages and match the chicken-wire design on the images, I used a hexagon stencil to add some distressed ink designs. I simply sponged some Espresso ink through the stencil and allowed it to fade off the page.
In my process video, you are going to be able to see these pages come together. While I am creating, you might begin to wonder why it looks backward. My creative brain does works differently.
When I make a two-page spread, I regularly put them together opposite of how they will end up in the album. It invariably works and it usually balances out, but I will never be able to figure out why my brain does this.
I hope that this layout inspired you to grab a few farm elements from your craft stash and create something new. I have felt a great sense of accomplishment using up items in my craft space this year and it prevents me from feeling too guilty when I shop for some of the new items that just arrived on my website.
If you choose to join our Love Your Stash challenge, make sure to use the hashtag #cdtloveyourstash. I would love to see how you are using up some of the items in your craft space.
I hope this inspired you to try something new. If you have any questions about this project or the supplies listed above, feel free to leave me a comment.
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Hey friends! I wanted to let you in on the products I use in my videos. Just so you know, I’m not getting paid to promote any of them, but I do have some affiliate links available if you want to check them out. If you end up buying something through those links, it would mean a lot to me and my business. And don’t worry, you won’t be charged any extra. Thanks for your support! Learn more