American Crafts Blooming Wild by Paige Evans - Hello Doti

This is my final layout to share for the Scrap Paper Scissors blog using Paige Evans' Blooming Wild collection for American Crafts and a digital cut file by Lori Whitlock. The cut file I used is intended for cardmaking and I've used it a few times for cards, but when several months ago I stumbled across a layout by Enza Gudor in which she had used the cut file on a scrapbook layout, I was itching to use it on a scrapbook layout myself and this layout is heavily inspired by Enza's layout.

From white cardstock I cut Lori Whitlock's Quilt Pinwheel Card cutfile nine times and then backed 6 of the 'pinwheels' with paper #21 from the collection. Paper #21 is full of different patterned squares and is therefore perfect for backing small areas in cutfiles.

The backed pinwheels, and the ones which I hadn't backed, were then arranged on a sheet of Cerise Pink Bazzill cardstock which had already been trimmed by a quarter of an inch on each edge and matted onto a sheet of white cardstock leaving a narrow border. I left a space where my photo would be and also cut 2 of the pinwheels in half and placed then near the right and left edge of the layout. 

Using white thread I carefully machine stitched across each of the pinwheels and around the edge of the pink cardstock.

My 6x4 photo was matted on white cardstock and attached to the layout with 3D foam underneath.

Die cuts were used to embelish the layout and 3D foam was used underneath them to give them dimension. Florals and a bird house were placed on the bottom left corner of the photo ....

...... and more florals, a bird and word strip cut from one of Paige's earlier collections were placed on the top right corner.

From paper #22 I cut the word 'sweet' into a banner and attached this at the bottom of the photo.

Stickers from my stash (by Pinkfresh Studio) were used for the title.

To complete the layout I added the date with some small white foam stickers and scattered some sequins from the Metropolis Sequin Mix from Picket Fence around the layout.