Mintay Papers Lavender Farm - Beatie & Polly

Today I've a heritage layout to share. The collections from Mintay generally have a vintage, distressed feel to them and so are perfect for heritage layouts..... but can also be used for so many other themes. This layout uses the Lavender Farm collection.

I started by trimming roughly half an inch from two sides of paper #4 and then machine stitched this, with white thread, to a sheet of paper #3 leaving a narrow border round the edge.

I then attached my sepia photo to the lower left quarter of the layout with some 3D foam underneath to add some dimension.

I embellished the layout with die cuts from the die cut pack and some purple paper flowers from my stash.

I tucked some white cotton lace underneath the photo too. The lace adds some texture and also adds to the vintage feel of the layout.

Finally I die cut some title lettering from a scrap of purple cardstock and placed this at the top of the layout following the arc of the window printed on the paper.

Mintay Papers Lavender Farm - Lets Wander

This is another layour created for the Papermaze blog using the beautiful Lavender Farm collection from Mintay Papers.

This layout started with a sheet of white cardstock which was trimmed to 11.5" x 11.5" and was then machine stitched onto a sheet of paper #2.

Before stitching the cardstock to the patterned paper base I stuck some torn pieces of washi tape (from my stash) to the edges of the cardstock. The cardstock was placed in the top left corner of the paper so that a border shows on just two sides. I gutted the patterned paper before attaching the cardstock so that I could use the otherwise hidden piece on another layout

Using a hexagon die, I cut out 7 hexagons - 2 from lilac coloured cardstock, 4 from paper #6 and 1 from my photo, and machine stitched inside all the edges of the hexagons. The lilac hexagons were also run through a hexagon embossing folder. The embossing is very subtle but adds a little bit of extra interest.

The hexagons were arranged on the cardstock background in a diagonal design with some 3D foam underneath to raise them up slightly. I then painted some pale blue watercolour paint around the hexagons. With the hexagons sitting slightly higher than the background it was easy to slide a paintbrush underneath and between the hexagons to apply the paint. Paint splatters were also added to the white cardstock.

Using my silhouette cameo machine I cut a title from some navy blue cardstock and stuck this beneath the hexagons.

Die cuts from the die cuts pack and wood veneer butterflies were used to embellish the layout.

Finally a few purple enamel dots were dotted about the layout and journalling, printed on the computer, was placed at the bottom left corner of the layout.