Take Inspiration from Planners

Do you use a planner, or a diary? No? Me neither, in fact I often forget to even put things on the electronic calendar I share with my husband, so I thought I was really going to struggle with this week's challenge on Shimelle's blog, which was to take inspiration from planners. The examples shown both use elements of routine but, really, when your daily routine feels pretty mundane and boring, it's not exactly something inspiring to scrapbook, so it was back to the pile of photos I had printed.

I discovered that I'd printed 7 smaller pictures of some of the meals we'd eaten on a recent holiday to Corfu, so that seemed like a good start! My original plan when I printed these was to put them in a 3 x 3 grid, with embellishment and journalling in the other two spaces but, when laid out, it didn't really work so, going back to the planner idea, two rows, like two pages in a diary, worked much better!

The papers and embellishments are almost all from the Simple Stories Summer Vibes collection. I did also feel the need to use a couple of planner stamps from the Heidi Swapp Hello Beautiful icons stamp set, just because!