Take Twelve: October

I finally got a couple of layouts photographed and thought it was about time to get the Take Twelve layout for October published. This was really such a typical day, so no photo was shouting to be taken.

The woman in the bottom left photo works at a local photography gallery & printing shop. I’ve worked with Beth a couple of times on personal projects, but on this day I picked up a photograph of Tracy’s step-father that had been seriously damaged during the fire. It was my mother-in-law’s favorite photo of Bill, and Beth did an amazing job of restoring it. Here’s what it looked like before:

And here’s the restored photo:

Here’s a close-up of the journaling:

I determined before I began this layout that I would use products exclusively from this month’s kit from Studio Calico, and I did with the exception of the tag from my stash and some woodgrain Washi tape. Washi’s becoming a staple here. I loved the patterned papers; one is from American Craft’s Ready, Set, Go line and the other is a Studio Calico paper. The photo template was cropped from one by Shimelle.