Mintay Papers Lavender Farm - Dream in Shades of Purple

This is my final layout for the Papermaze blog using the beautiful Lavender Farm collection from Mintay Papers. My layout today was inspired by paper #5. The pattern on paper #5 reminded me of some of the Anna Griffin papers I used to scrapbook with when I first started scrapbooking, so I decided to create a layout heavily influenced by Anna's timeless style.

I trimmed half an inch off of two edges of paper #5 and stuck this to the centre of a 12x12 sheet of white cardstock.

I then used a very old Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page Eyelet Lace border punch to punch around the edge of a 10.25" square sheet of white cardstock. I have a love/hate relationship with this punch. It is so difficult to perfectly punch all the way round the edge of the paper square. One mis-alignment and its spoiled. I persevered though and the punched square was then stuck to the centre of the layout and on top of this I placed a 9" square piece of paper #2.

To add some interest I machine stitched with white thread round all the papers and roughed up the edges with my fingernails to add some dimension.

I then cut four 0.5" x 12" strips of paper from a second sheet pf paper #5 and put two on the right side of the layout and two near the bottom, machine stitched them and roughed up the edges.

Two white paper doilies were placed on the layout and on top of these two 3" x 4" photos (one black & white and one colour) which were double matted, were added.

Die cuts from the die cut pack were layered around the photos with 3D foam underneath some to give them different heights.

Title letters were die cut from a scrap of purple card and placed beneath one of the photos.

Finally the layout was completed with a scattering of silver sequins.

Cocoa Vanilla Studio Sunkissed

Today on the Papermaze blog I'm sharing a layout using the new Sunkissed collection from Cocoa Vanilla Studio. If you like bright sunny collections, this is right up your street! The collection celebrates all things Summer and is full of bright juicy colours and is perfect for documenting past and future summer memories. 

My layout today is of Lara on the beach and uses all the zesty colours in the collection.

Inspiration for my layout came from a sketch on Lets Get Sketchy although I didn't stick too closely to the sketch.

I started with a sheet of the Feeling Fine paper which after trimming a quarter of an inch from each edge I mounted on a 12 x 12 sheet of white Bazzill cardstock and then using a black gel pen drew round the edge. 

I used a hexagonal die to cut several hexagons from papers from the collection as well as from some of the pockets cards, doodled round the edges of these and stuck them on the layout to the left of where my photo was to be placed.

My photo was double matted on white and black cardstock and then placed on the layout with 3D foam underneath.

From the Fun in the Sun cut apart sheet I cut a strip of rainbow stripey paper and placed this next to the photo.  I attached a strip of white cardstock next to this that I punched with a border punch and on top I attached a thin strip of the B side of the Feeling Fine paper. To add some texture I added some cross stitches to the paper strip using white embroidery thread.

One of the pocket cards was added to the layout with 3D foam underneath.

The Growing Wild paper is perfect for fussy cutting and I cut some of the florals from the paper to use as embellishments.

The word Sunkissed was cut from the packaging containing the pocket cards and was placed on top of the fussy cut flowers. 

In the top left corner of the layout I created a cluster with some of the die cut ephemera pieces. 

To complete the layout I used some tiny letter stickers from my stash to add the date and place and dotted some gold sequins around the layout.

Simple Stories Hey Crafty Girl - Create

Today on the Papermaze blog I have one final layout using the Hey Crafty Girl Collection from Simple Stories.

I started with a sheet of white Bazzill cardstock and in the centre I painted a rough square with some aqua coloured acrylic paint.

I then cut a piece of the Crafty & Happy paper into strips and used various paper punches to punch the edges. The punched strips were then layered horizontally in the centre of the layout on top of the painted square.

My 6x4 photo was stuck to the right side of the layout with foam underneath to add dimension.

I made a tag using one of the 4x4 elements and some pink Bakers Twine and attached this to the left side of the layout overlapping the corner of the photo.

I fussy cut some flowers from the B side of the 4x4 elements paper and used these and one of the 2x2 elements to embellish the layout.

A few sequins and sparkly star shaped enamel dots were scattered around the layout.

To finish the layout I doodled with a black gel pen around the edge of the layout and on some of the embelishments and added some small punched paper strips at the top and bottom of the page. The date was die cut from coordinating card stock.