Mintay Papers - Playtime - All the Fun of the Fair

My second layout using the gorgeous Playtime collection from Mintay Papers. The collections form Mintay always include 12x12 papers with beautiful, large all over designs which can be quite intimidating and at first sight appear difficult to use. I decided to challenge myself to use paper #2 which is printed with an all over fairground scene. The scene made me nostalgic for the trips we used to make to the funfair whilst on holiday when I was child, and so I found two photos from the funfair we used to visit and used these to create my layout.

I started by cutting (gutting) from the centre of paper #2 a 10½" square and matted this onto an 11" square of Lava (red) Bazzill Cardstock leaving a ¼" border round the edges. The matted paper was then placed back on top of the original paper covering the hole in the middle. 

I wanted to add some subtle dimension to the layout so I sandwiched a sheet of corrugated card (cut from the pizza box my supplies were delivered in!) between the red cardstock and the paper underneath. This meant I didn't have to use lots of 3D foam to create a little depth.

Next I matted my two 3x4 photos, with more of the red Bazzill cardstock, and placed these onto the layout with more corrugated card underneath.

I tucked a scribbled circle cut file, left over from a previous layout, underneath the photos.

Using paper #6, some Aqua Bazzill cardstock and yellow bakers twine I created two strings of bunting and looped these across the page, raising the pennants on 3D foam pads and securing the twine with wet glue.

Gold glitter foam Thickers from my stash were used to create the title which I placed above one of the strings of bunting.

Before sticking my photos to the layout I had created a pocket behind one of them and into this pocket I was able to slide a journaling tag from the pack of paper elements.

The reverse side of the tag was less busy than the front, so I used the reverse side for my journalling.

Finally I added  a place name and date onto a piece of cardstock at the bottom of the layout and scattered some gold sequins here and there.

Mintay Papers - Playtime

This month on the Scrap, Paper, Scissors blog I'm playing with the new Playtime collection from Mintay Papers. This brightly coloured collection is inspired by carnivals and funfairs and includes images of lots of cute critters and play things. It is perfect for creating layouts about toddlers and pre-schoolers or funfair trips. Some of the papers have large designs on them but today I chose to use the muted B side of paper #3 and images cut from the Elements Paper. I also used a 12x12 foundations page from 49 & Market's Spectrum Sherbet collection as my background. The colours in the foundation paper co-ordinated perfectly with the colours in the Playtime collection.

I started my layout by matting the 12x12 foundations page onto a sheet of Aqua Bazzill Cardstock leaving a 1 cm frame round the outside.

Using my fingernails I roughed up the edges of the foundation paper and then with a fine liner pen I doodled scribbly lines round the inside edge.

From a scrap piece of green/grey paper found in my stash I cut a scribbled circle cut file on my Silhouette Cameo and also cut the centre area from the B side of paper #3. Both pieces were placed onto the layout slightly right of centre.

I added my square photo and beneath it and glued a piece of white pom-pom trim.

Either side of the photo I layered images cut from the Elements Paper - balloons, building blocks, balls, a rocket ship and cute animals. I thought they echoed the pile of toys in my photo.

I layered the images with 3D foam underneath, so that some were flat on the layout and others were in front of the photo. 

Above the photo the die cut word 'Playtime' was positioned which was cut from the same paper as the scribbled circle.

In the top left corner another image from the Elements Sheet was glued, raising it on more 3D foam.

At the bottom of the layout I added details with die cut letters.

Finally I finished off the layout with a scattering of silver sequins and paper punched stars.