I’ve chosen to split my tutorial into two for this weeks challenge so you get a little bonus of two tutorials instead of one!! The first is about creating texture in your titles, the second about typing on your journal cards.

It is easy for a physical scrapbook layout made 100% with printable elements to look a little flat. The project will be made entirely with paper so there is a risk it will lack dimension.

I create texture and dimension on my pages in a number of ways and enjoyed the challenge of bringing those techniques to text this week.

I chose to work with the fantastic new FREE collection from Traci “Beautiful Dreamer”. It is packed full of digital and printable goodies. As there is no font within a freebie collection I choose to work with one of the die cuts as my title.

I love the brush lettering effect of the fonts used in this collection and didn’t want to lose that. So I turned to an old fave - glossy accents- to add dimension whilst retaining the gorgeous brush Iettering:

I wanted to keep on that texture train so then opted to do some stitching over the word “big” to bring in another dimension. I’m so glad I did this as I love the full on detail in this simple title:

To complete the look I opted to pop this title piece up on pop dots for even more dimension. That way I could later lots of the gorgeous florals and labels from the collection behind.

Once I had completed the project I decided to go back in and add stitching in other places around the page - repetition really helps a technique to ground into eyes Project.

I decided to use a 3x8 tag to capture my journaling for this layout as I had a lot to say. When I want to write more I ALWAYS turn to printing my journaling as I can reduce the font in size and everything is still legible.

There was no 3x8 tag in the collection but a few clicks in Canva and I had one.

I always opt to write my journaling up in Evernote before I copy it into Canva. I just find it easier to see what I am typing in that app.

I opted for one of the gorgeous striped TN papers as my background for my tag and so I had to adjust my line spacing a little to make the words fit in the lines.

Once I was happy with it I printed out the whole piece, trimmed it to the shape of a tag and started to build the page. I chose to hide my journaling behind the photo and paper stack as I wanted my photo, title  and the florals to be the focal points.