Hopek story | Storyteller Layout | Anna Komenda

Hello Friends. It’s Anna here with my newest page made with new “Storyteller” collection. I am sure you are all already familiar with this extraordinary line and many of you already got your own stash of it. It’s such a versatile collection, with beautiful color palette that will match any photo. In August we are all focusing on telling stories with our projects. I love making layouts but I usually hide my journaling on the back of the page. I am totally not happy with my hand writting so it’s the best solution for me. Today I am documenting the story of one of the toys my younger daughter got when she was just a baby. It was one of those bouncers with activity toys around the baby, all very colorful and making noises. It was a hit for us – I could take a quick shower knowing Maja will play with all the buttons and creatures. She loved bouncing up and down and she often fell asleep while playing there. She was hopping like crazy and my older daughter, who was five at the time, named this toy “hopek” from hopping (no English word not that correspond to that made up phrase). So the bouncer got it’s own unique name, that made us laugh every time we were using it. Gabrysia was famous for making up new words for many things.

I started my page with white cardstock. I knew I wanted to make something colorful as the bouncer was colorful as well. Plus I was scrapbooking cute baby photo and those scream for playful color combo! I took my inspiration from paper called “Brighter days” (You know I have a thing for rainbows). I used small heart dies and cut out set of four hearts from each color strip. My photo is almost A4 in size, so there was not much space left in the background to play with. I reached for long forgotten Gelatos and scribbles with them using colorful strips as a guide. I smeared them with my fingers a little bit. It created very playful designs, that looks like it was made by little child.

Next step was to glue down the photo with a little frame made with “Oh my heart” paper. I just wanted to make the picture pop from the white background. I reached for Flower Ephemera pack and picked flowers in corresponding to the strips colors placing them on the bottom edge of the photo. I also added my hearts using pieces of sticky foam to add a bit of dimension.

I also added some flowers on top of the photo making sort of a frame around the cute baby face. Bits and pieces from Ephemera pack landed on the photo as well. I used colorful banner, camera with flowers and a tab. Few chipboard butterflies enriched my composition around the flowers.

Last step was to add few puffy hearts (I just love those puffy stickers!) and three wooden epoxy buttons. I tend to hoard them as they are the cutest embellishment ever and I am always afraid I will run out of them.

I love how simple, playful and colorful this page turned out. It’s an essence of my scrappy style and it has rainbow! Rainbows always make me so happy. That is all for today. Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you feel inspired by my design.

See you in two weeks.

XO Ann