Simple Stories - Boho Sunshine - You are my Rainbow

This month the Scrap, Paper, Scissors design team have been working on something a little different, and decided to do a team scraplift.  A layout was chosen then everyone used it as inspiration for their own layout.  Sometimes the design of the original layout was stuck to, other times certain elements were used.  The layout that we chose is this one by Michelle Gallant (https://scrapsandpixels.blogspot.com/)

This was my layout.

For my layout I used the Simple Stories Boho Sunshine collection. I started by matting a sheet of white cardstock onto a sheet of pale oink cardstock and machine stitched round the edges and splattered some pale pink acrylic paint onto the white cardstock.

I matted 7 tags from the sheet of tags with pink cardstock, machine stitched round each one, tied them with pink and white bakers twine and layered them in the centre of the layout. 

My photo was matted with white cardstock and placed on top of the tags.

I added my computer printed journaling onto one tag.

At the top and bottom of the layout I added strips of stripey paper and die cuts from the bits and pieces pack and stickers from the sticker book.

Finally, I dotted a few sequins here and there.

All the design team layouts can be found here.

Echo Park A Slice of Summer - Create Your Own Sunshine

 This layout is my final layout using the Echo Park A Slice of Summer collection.

I started with a 12"x12" sheet of white Bazzill Cardstock and onto this I placed a sheet of the Summertime paper which I had trimmed about a quarter of an inch from each edge. 

I found a sunburst cut file in the Silhouette Store and cut this from my favourite Craft UK smooth white cardstock. The sunburst was stuck to the top of the layout and using my sewing machine and white thread I stitched round each sun-ray.

I matted three photos which were slightly smaller than 3"x 4" in a row on white cardstock and also added machine stitching to the photo mat. A piece of the Squeeze The Day paper was added to the bottom of the layout and the photo mat was placed on top of this.

I also included one of the 3x4 journalling cards in the row of photos which acted as a title for the layout.

I created a cluster with die cuts and pieces cut from the sheet of multi journaling cards to the lower right corner of the layout. I added blue bakers twine to the tag and a puffy camera sticker from my stash to the cluster.

I cut a speech bubble from the sheet of multi journaling cards and added this to one of the photos as well as an epoxy circle with an image of flip flops from my stash. I've had the epoxy circle for ages and thought that this was the ideal opportunity to use it on a layout about my daughter paddling with her shoes on. It also introduced some blue to that area of the layout.

Finally journaling strips were typed on the computer and added beneath the photos.

Echo Park A Slice of Summer - Summer Memories

Here is my  first layout for the Papermaze Blog using Echo Park's A Slice of Summer collection. The layout I'm sharing today features a photo of me taken one summer when I was a child. The photo was originally an old style transparency slide but I was able to make quite a good copy of it by laying it on my light box and taking a photo of it.

I started with a piece of 11¾" x 11¾" white textured Bazzil Cardstock which I matted in the corner of a sheet of the Squeeze the Day paper so that pieces of the paper showed on two edges. I distressed the edges of the white cardstock and machine stitched all the way around using white thread.

I cut a  9" x 8" piece of the Fun in the Sun paper, distressed and machine stitched the edges and attached it to the centre of the layout at an angle.

I then cut a 9" x 8" piece of the Lemons paper and sliced this into 1.5" strips. I distressed and machine stitched the edges of each paper strip and then pieced  the strips back together on top of the blue paper leaving a slight gap between each piece. 

My photo was matted onto some more of the Fun in the Sun paper and placed on the Lemons paper.

Underneath the photo I tucked some white paper doilies and a tag, and on the corner of the photo I added a Chipboard Sun Shine from the Chipboard Frames pack. I added a red reinforcing ring to the tag to pick up on the red in my photo.

From the sheet of Multi Journalling Cards I cut some tabs and tucked these between the strips of the Lemons paper. I put some 3D foam squares underneath the edges to raise them up a little. I wanted to bring some more red into the layout so some scalloped circles were also punched from some of the Summer Floral Paper, folded in half and also tucked under the paper strips. 

For the title I used a Glitter Foam Title Sticker from Cocoa Vanilla which I had left over from a  previous DT project. 

Finally, I added journalling strips printed on the computer to the bottom of the layout and dotted a few gold sequins around for added sparkle.