Crate Paper Gingham Garden - Side by Side

Today I have a layout to share using the new Gingham Garden collection from Crate Paper. This collection has a soft pastel colour palette and if full of florals, ginghams and watercolour patterns. It is soooooo pretty and I am loving creating with it. It would be ideal for spring layouts, heritage layouts, wedding layouts. baby layouts and lots of other themes. Today I've created a layout using three photos of Lara investigating a statue found when we were on holiday one summer.

I started by mounting a trimmed down sheet of the Souvenir paper (B side) onto a sheet of 12x12 white cardstock leaving a narrow boarder round the edge. Strips of the Nostalgia paper and Lovely One paper were then layered at the top of the layout and using my sewing machine I straight stitched along all the edges with white thread to add some texture to the layout.

Three 3x4 photos were triple matted in a row with white cardstock, Lovely One paper and Picnic (B side) paper. Finally they were placed onto a slightly larger piece of the Nostalgia paper and attached to the layout with 3D foam underneath.

Using my Silhouette Cameo I cut a 'Side by Side' cutfile by Peartree Crafts. The cutfile was cut twice - once in smooth white cardstock and once in smooth black cardstock. The white cutfile was backed with the Picnic paper and then the two cutfiles were layered, slightly offset, on top of each other to create a shadow effect. When placed on the layout the cutfile stands out more because of the shadow effect.

Three embellishment clusters were created on the layout - two by the photos and one in the top right corner.

Each cluster contained die cuts from the Ephemera pack, flowers fussy cut from the Fresh Air paper, stickers from the sticker book and some wood veneer leaves and butterfly from my stash. The embellishment pack contains a variety of die cuts cut from shiny cardstock, paper or vellum and some have foil accents. 

To balance the clusters I made sure each one included peach, yellow and aqua elements. In the cluster at the top of the page I also included the date, die cut from the green paper.

Finally I sprinkled a few pale green sequins by each cluster to add some sparkle.

American Crafts Blooming Wild by Paige Evans - Hello Doti

This is my final layout to share for the Scrap Paper Scissors blog using Paige Evans' Blooming Wild collection for American Crafts and a digital cut file by Lori Whitlock. The cut file I used is intended for cardmaking and I've used it a few times for cards, but when several months ago I stumbled across a layout by Enza Gudor in which she had used the cut file on a scrapbook layout, I was itching to use it on a scrapbook layout myself and this layout is heavily inspired by Enza's layout.

From white cardstock I cut Lori Whitlock's Quilt Pinwheel Card cutfile nine times and then backed 6 of the 'pinwheels' with paper #21 from the collection. Paper #21 is full of different patterned squares and is therefore perfect for backing small areas in cutfiles.

The backed pinwheels, and the ones which I hadn't backed, were then arranged on a sheet of Cerise Pink Bazzill cardstock which had already been trimmed by a quarter of an inch on each edge and matted onto a sheet of white cardstock leaving a narrow border. I left a space where my photo would be and also cut 2 of the pinwheels in half and placed then near the right and left edge of the layout. 

Using white thread I carefully machine stitched across each of the pinwheels and around the edge of the pink cardstock.

My 6x4 photo was matted on white cardstock and attached to the layout with 3D foam underneath.

Die cuts were used to embelish the layout and 3D foam was used underneath them to give them dimension. Florals and a bird house were placed on the bottom left corner of the photo ....

...... and more florals, a bird and word strip cut from one of Paige's earlier collections were placed on the top right corner.

From paper #22 I cut the word 'sweet' into a banner and attached this at the bottom of the photo.

Stickers from my stash (by Pinkfresh Studio) were used for the title.

To complete the layout I added the date with some small white foam stickers and scattered some sequins from the Metropolis Sequin Mix from Picket Fence around the layout.