Carta Bella Fall Fun - Beautiful

This is my final autumn themed layout using Carta Bella's Fall Fun collection. As this is the last layout created from my design team kit, I didn't have any full sheet of patterned paper left so the layout is made from the paper scraps leftover as well as brown and white cardstock and some gold cardstock from my stash.

I started by gutting a 11" square from a 12x12 sheet of brown Bazzill cardstock and set it aside. On top of the remaining brown cardstock I layered a sheet of smooth white cardstock which I trimmed down slightly to leave a narrow border of brown round the edges.

I them added some yellow ink in the middle of the white cardstock using a blending tool. I have to admit it wasn't very evenly blended but as most of it ended up covered it didn't need to be too neat.

With the Loose Leaf free cut file from The Cut Shoppe cut from the remaining brown cardstock, I used scraps of the collection  and some textured gold cardstock to back the leaves.

I made one of the leaves on the cut file into a shaker pocket using sequins from Picket Fence Studios.

With some 3D foam underneath I attached the backed cut file to the centre of the layout.

My photo was printed with a white border and matted with more of the Autumn Abundance paper and stuck it on top of the cut file. A word from the sheet of chipboard phrases was added to the corner of the photo.

I had some gold die cut leaves left over from my previous layout so decided to add these to the rows of leaves too. They added some extra dimension and interest.

In my stash I found the word Beautiful on a sheet of puffy stickers from Paige Evans. It was rather too pink for the layout and I was surprised that despite it having a shiny texture I was able to easily change the colour of it with a swipe or two of brown ink. The word was stuck to the bottom of the layout.

Using small foam letter stickers I added my dog's name beside one of the leaves.

Finally I splattered a little watered down brown acrylic paint onto the layout, added some orange enamel dots and gold sequins and using a brown gel pen I drew a line all round the layout.

Carta Bella Fall Fun - Crisp Leaves and Autumn Memories

Today  I have another Autumnal layout using Fall Fun from Carta Bella. I'm really enjoying using this collection which perfectly matched the colours in some photos I had taken during a woodland walk last year.

This layout started out as a scraplift of this layout which I created for the blog in 2019 and whilst the finished layout bears some similarities, it is also quite different. I find that if I am stuck for inspiration, scraplifting a layout (my own or by another scrapbooker) can get the creative juices flowing.

I started my layout by trimming down a sheet of the Freshly Fallen paper by roughly 5mm on each edge,  layered this onto a sheet of mustard coloured Bazzill cardstock and then machine stitched with white thread around all the edges.

Pieces of the Flannel Warmth and B side of the 3x4 Journalling Cards cut apart sheet were then attached to the layout with one piece made into a pocket so that a journaling tag made from more of the mustard coloured card could be slipped into it.

Two photos, one portrait and one landscape, were printed with white borders and matted with the Freshly Fallen and Autumn Abundance papers and mustard cardstock. The photos were placed on the layout with the main portrait photo mounted on 3D foam to raise it up and make it more prominent.

The words from one of the 6x4 Journaling cards were used as a title placed next to the photos with 3D foam underneath. As the word 'Crisp Leaves' in the title were blue I felt that the layout needed some other blue elements so I threaded the tag with blue bakers twine and also tucked some pieces of the B side of the Pumpkin Spice paper underneath some of the paper layers. I think this made the blue in the title look more intentional.

Using some textured gold card from my stash I die cut several leaves on the Silhouette Cameo. Using a scoring tool I scored some veins into the leaves and bent then in the middle to give them some dimension.

The leaves were scattered across the layout from top left to bottom right to give an impression of falling leaves.

Finally I added a journalling strip printed on the computer underneath one of the photos and dotted a few copper coloured sequins here and there.