Jot Magazine Issue 13: 90 Days

The latest issue of Jot Magazine, Issue 13, included a numbers gallery, and today I'd like to share my numbers layout with you! 

"90 Days" supplies | Cardstock: Bazzill. Patterned paper: Amy Tangerine Finder's Keepers (pink & orange stripe), Dear Lizzy for American Crafts (pink polka dot), Studio Calico (numbers vellum.) Embellishments: Project Life card, Amy Tangerine Finder's Keepers cardstock die-cuts, Finder's Keepers rub-ons, Amy Tangerine Stitched enamel dot shapes & Thickers, Mark Richards metal dots. Other: sequins.

When the idea of creating a layout around numbers came up, I immediately thought back to our time in the NICU. EVERYTHING in there is about numbers- the oxygen levels in my daughter's blood, her temperature, test results, etc. The other big number from our time there was 90, the number of days that we called the NICU our home, so I decided to make that number the focal point of my layout, die-cut the number with my Silhouette Cameo, and placed my photo inside the "0." I had the perfect vertical photo- me sitting at the side of the isolette, with my hand on my girl, probably only days after she had been born.

The font I chose, Bebas Neue, was tall and clean, so I decided to go with a vertical design on my layout, adding strips of patterned paper, vellum and washi along the left side of the 8-1/2" x 11" page. 

I knew I would want to write quite a bit about this photo, so I chose to type my journaling (in Rough Typewriter font) and print it onto a trimmed Project Life card. I placed this at the bottom left, along with a few simple embellishments from the Amy Tangerine Finder's Keepers cardstock die-cuts. 

Since I had quite a bit of weight on the left side of my page, I wanted to add a bit more to the center and the right, so I placed the word, "days" from the Amy Tangerine Stitched Thickers right below my die-cut numbers, and to the right of that, a cardstock die-cut flower group, which balanced the rub-on flowers at the top left of the page. 

Be sure to check out the rest of the numbers gallery in Issue 13 of Jot Magazine!