{"id":4687,"date":"2011-08-05T00:54:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T05:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/?p=4687"},"modified":"2017-11-22T16:22:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T22:22:41","slug":"purple-aces-vs-racers-layout-by-amy-wheeler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/05\/purple-aces-vs-racers-layout-by-amy-wheeler\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Aces vs. Racers Layout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrappinstuff.com\/store\/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&amp;search_in_description=1&amp;keyword=sei\">&#8220;I&#8217;m An Athlete&#8221; line by SEI<\/a> is PERFECT for so many sports layouts. I fell in love with the &#8220;b-sides&#8221; for most of the line. Even though they had a couple great basketball themed papers, I selected a couple of simple, colorful patterns to document our trip to my husband&#8217;s alma mater to see a basketball game.<\/p>\n<p>I also used a sketch by Allison Davis at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.SketchSupport.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.SketchSupport.com<\/a>\u00a0for this 2-page layout.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4688\" src=\"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0844.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0844.jpg 750w, https:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0844-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0844-200x100.jpg 200w, https:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0844-665x333.jpg 665w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<div><strong>Supplies<\/strong>:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrappinstuff.com\/store\/miscellaneous-cardstock-c-216_223\/bazzill-smoothies-cardstock-lemon-bliss-p-8676\">(2 sheets) Bazzill Smoothies Cardstock &#8211; Lemon Bliss <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrappinstuff.com\/store\/basketball-c-6\/sei-point-guard-paper-p-11899\">SEI &#8211; Point Guard Paper (stripe)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrappinstuff.com\/store\/baseball-c-5\/sei-ian-athlete-score-paper-p-11913\">SEI &#8211; I&#8217;m an Athlete Score Paper (blocks)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrappinstuff.com\/store\/basketball-c-6\/sei-court-paper-p-11900\">SEI &#8211; Court Paper (stars)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrappinstuff.com\/store\/baseball-c-5\/sei-ian-athlete-borders-p-11915\">SEI &#8211; I&#8217;m an Athlete Borders<\/a><\/li>\n<li>floss<\/li>\n<li>alphabet stickers<\/li>\n<li>corrugated alphas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Instructions:<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Start with a sheet of\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>Bazzill Smoothies Cardstock &#8211; Lemon Bliss<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0for the left hand side of your layout and a sheet of\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>SEI &#8211; Point Guard Paper<\/strong>\u00a0(stripe)<\/span>\u00a0for the right hand side. I turned the right side paper so my stripes were horizontal.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Cut a 5&#215;12 section from\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>SEI &#8211; I&#8217;m an Athlete Score Paper<\/strong>\u00a0(blocks)\u00a0<\/span>and adhere along right hand edge of Lemon Bliss cardstock.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Select basketball border strip and &#8220;Team Work&#8221; border strip from\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>SEI &#8211; I&#8217;m an Athlete Borders<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0and adhere against patterned paper edge on Lemon Bliss cardstock.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Cut large star shape out of\u00a0<strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Bazzill Smoothies Cardstock &#8211; Lemon Bliss<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0and adhere in center of right hand page.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Adhere one 4&#215;6 photo and one 4&#215;4 photo on top of block paper on left hand page as shown.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Add additional 4&#215;4 photo as shown in example.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Cut three photos down to 4&#215;4 and adhere stacked on top of each other down left edge of right hand page (partially covering star).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Hand cut star shapes from\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>SEI &#8211; Court Paper<\/strong>\u00a0(stars)<\/span>. (I used almost 30.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Add stars to layout crossing both pages in a wavy pattern as shown.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Add handstitching across stars.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Add additional stars in upper left hand corner of far left photo and at right edge where 1st and 2nd photos meet on right hand page.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Add title using mix of two different alphas on left hand page.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Add journaling to large star on right hand page.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Happy Scrappin&#8217;!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Purple Aces vs. Racers Layout by Amy Wheeler<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new &#8220;I&#8217;m An Athlete&#8221; line by SEI is PERFECT for so many sports layouts. I fell in love with the &#8220;b-sides&#8221; for most of the line. Even though they had a couple great basketball themed papers, I selected a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,4],"tags":[258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4687"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24783,"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687\/revisions\/24783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}