Aside from the ribbon and the accent pieces, I used my Cricut entirely for this craft. Using my SCAL2 software, I cut the bracket frame journaling tags (free .svg file found here). I also used SCAL2 for the lettering, using sf Natalie font (found free here ).
I
did a three part layer on the ribbon. The base ribbon is a stretchy
blue gingham ruffle ribbon that I centered a plain green grosgrain
ribbon on top of and then a sunny yellow rickrack ribbon on top of that.
I glue dotted each layer together and cross stapled at the ends.
I
found these fun ribbon embellished paperclips in the scrapbook
accessories aisle at Hobby Lobby. I loved how they picked up on the
polka dot theme of the background paper and tied in to the whole color
scheme.
The paper mats are
actually from way outside the scrapbook aisles. As I was making my
layouts, I realized I didn't have enough of any one color card stock to
make all the mats for eight layouts. I started doing multi color - I
had enough card stock to do each of the five mats per layout a different
color.... I just didn't like the way it looked. By the time I changed
my mind, Hobby Lobby was closed but I was too impatient to wait. I went
to Target and wasn't impressed with their card stock options. I was
inspired to match the mats to the lettering background - which happened
to look like kraft paper (it's actually card stock). Well, Target ended
up being sold out of their rolls of kraft paper. I thought "lunch
bags!" and off I went only to discover Target's lunch bags are not, in
fact, brown - they're blue & red. As I was headed dejectedly away, a
stack of yard leaf bags caught my eye....
I brought them home, trimmed 'em to size and they look perfect.
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*updated with pictures:
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