November Use It All at MyMemories

This month’s ScrapChat Designs Use It All Challenge features Tears of Joy, a collection created for those moments that bring tears for all the right reasons. Weddings, baby showers, celebrations, proud moments, and those little pieces of life that simply make your heart full all fit beautifully with this collection.

For my layout, I wanted to document a much quieter kind of joy. Sitting on my back porch and watching the sun set off to the west is something simple, but it’s a view and a feeling I want to remember for a very long time.

One technique I used on this page was cutting patterned papers into slim strips. If you have patterns you love but they feel a little stronger than what you normally use, smaller strips let you bring in the color and pattern without letting them take over the page.

You can also change the look of a pattern simply by rotating the paper 90 degrees. Stripes, directional prints, and many geometric designs can suddenly feel completely different with one quick turn.

I also used the frame beneath the photo as an accent rather than using it as an actual frame. Little changes like that are an easy way to get more mileage from the pieces in your stash.

Ready to play along? Visit the ScrapChat Designs forum at MyMemories for all the November Use It All details, download the Use It All sampler, create your layout, and come back to share what you made. I always love seeing how differently everyone uses the same set of pieces.

Visit the ScrapChat Designs Use It All Forum at MyMemories

Want more to work with? The full Tears of Joy Collection is the featured ScrapChat Designs collection for November and is available for just $5.00 all month long.

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