Crate Paper Gingham Garden - A Moment Captured

Today I have another layout to share using the beautiful Gingham Garden collection from Crate Paper and this time I've scrapbooked a photo of me as a child.

For my background I used a ready-to-use Mixed Media Paper from a pad by Vicki Boutin. 

I trimmed the paper down by 5mm on each edge and matted this onto a sheet of the Gingham Garden Fresh Air paper. 

I then splattered the layout with some gold mist. 

In the centre of the layout I created a large photo mat from torn pieces of the Fresh Air and Nostalgia paper. To add some extra texture I machine stitched the torn edges and the edges of the layout with white thread.

My square photo was printed with a white border and added to the photo mat with 3D foam underneath to add dimension.

Beside the photo I placed a journalling card from the Ephemera pack and used this as a place to put my title.

The title was created with some tiny foam alphabet stickers from my stash. A word from the Happy Life Phrase Thickers was added as a sub-title. Some of the Phrase Thickers are gold and really shine.

To embellish the layout I fussy cut some flowers from the In the Shade paper and butterflies from the Alight paper, and placed these beside the photo.

Finally I added the date at the bottom of the page with more foam alphabet stickers and dotted some gold stars from the sheet of Thickers here and there.

Crate Paper Gingham Garden - Remote Working

Today I have another layout using the lovely Gingham Garden collection from Crate Paper. My last layout was very pretty and girly so this time I challenged myself to create something a bit different.

I started by gutting a sheet of  the Greenhouse paper and then after trimming this down slightly I layered the B side onto a sheet of 12x12 black cardstock leaving a narrow border round the edge. Onto this I then layered the B side of a trimmed down a sheet of the Lovely One paper again leaving a narrow border round the edge.

To add some details I doodled round the edge of the Lovely One paper with a black gel pen and later did the same on some of the other elements.

My two 3½ x 5 photos were matted on white cardstock and then on more of the Greenhouse paper and attached to the right side of the layout.

The Lovely One paper is a ledger paper but it also has a subtle floral design in the corner which I wanted to expand so I took some clear stickers from the sticker book and some velum pieces from the ephemera pack and tucked these underneath and around the photos. 

Using my Silhouette Cameo I cut a title from black cardstock and placed this horizontally across the layout.

Two tags from the Be Kind paper and one from the ephemera pack were threaded with black and white Barker Twine and then placed in the left corner of the layout. I diecut some small alphas from a scrap of the Greenhouse paper and used these to spell out details of where and when the photos were taken on the tags. The tags were outlined in black gel pen and a tab (from my stash) was stapled to the edge.

Journaling strips were printed on the computer, outlined in gel pan and then glued beneath the title.

Finally I scattered a few stars from the sticker book around the layout.