Altering Project Life Cards for my Travel Album
For today’s project, I dug into some old product and used various pieces to assemble another page in my travel album about my day in Heidelberg!
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Supplies:
Project Life Travel Theme Kit
Simple Stories - Simple Vintage Traveler:
Washi Tape
4x6 stickers
Bits & Pieces die cut embellishments
American Crafts Thickers Alphabet Stickers - Rockabye - White
Project Life layouts are a great way to use up random bits of product that are leftover from bigger projects! Even when I’m using a pre-designed card, I almost never use one without modifying it in some way.
On the left page shown above, all of the cards are altered - even ones that aren’t obvious. My favorite alteration is to add a text element. Besides the obvious element of the title, the green “right here” banner, the “love this place” strip, the date area and quote strip layered elements are all elements that I added.
(And did you see that I stuck to my plan of having map prints on each page in this album, with the map print card?)
The card above looked a little too simple and spare for this album. So I added a coordinating text sticker from the Simple Vintage Traveler collection across the top. It turns up the vintage style of the card, and just adds some nice detail.
I loved the style of the card below, but the design had a problem: the “our holiday” text. Since this was a solo trip, it didn’t work. But that was easily fixed by simply adding another "layer” to the collage of elements in that corner of the card. The little vintage stamp element added some French theming and covered the text I didn’t like. Double win! I also added a “world traveler” banner to fill some empty space at the bottom of the card after my journaling was done.
Because of all the historic sites I saw, this layout has a lot of journaling on it. I like to write about the background of the things I’ve seen, to help me remember the significance of what I saw. With all of the journaling, there wasn’t any room for purely decorative cards, so I chose my journaling cards carefully!
I love playing with all my little pieces on a layout like this…sometimes the hardest part is knowing when to stop, so my design doesn’t become too cluttered!
What do you do with your leftover bits and pieces?
