We are continuing with our Easter and spring themed projects, and today is all about layouts. I love that our designers got creative and used a variety of collections to create their layouts, even pulling products from the Love And Marriage and Birthday Girl collections, showing how versitle our collections can be.
“Easter”, by Kim Jeffress.
This year I decided to create a little Easter display for my kitchen table, I went hunting around my house and also at the local shopping center for the perfect pieces. I wanted it to be bright and cheery so I went for crisp white with a touch of yellow and pink! When I printed off my photos and started looking through my papers the soft grey woodgrain pattern from the Love and Marriage Smokeys in love paper was a perfect subtle backdrop for my photos. I added in little touches of pink and yellow around my layout to pull it all together.
Supplies:
Love and Marriage: Smokeys in Love, May Eighteenth; Kiss Me: Love Notes,
Alpha+Bits Stickers; Birthday Girl: Miles of Smiles, Just Write Journaling Stickers;
Freestyle Sophisticates: Freestyle Banana; Designer Tapes: Hot Pink Dot, 12mm
Combo
"Spring Spectacular", by Yohko Takiguchi.
As soon as I saw March Sketch #1 I fell in love. So I decided to use this sketch for my spring layout. I used a photo of “Hanami”, the Japanese traditional custom of enjoying the beauty of cherry blossoms in April. The cherry blossom is the national flower of Japan and there are cherry trees everywhere in Japan!
Supplies:
Spring Flings &
Easter Things: Sunny Sunday, A Tisket A Tasket, Borders, Cute Cuts, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Just Write Journaling
Stickers, Miniatures; Flags: Spring Flings
and Easter Things; Birthday Girl: Sugar Rush; Ciao
Chip Everyday Elements: Clouds
"Sweet Sweet Face", by Jenny Evans.
Bella Blvd's alphas are one of my favorite products! They make it easy to do long titles (currently a favorite of mine), and coordinate with ALL Bella collections.
Supplies:
Spring Flings & Easter Things: Borders, Mom's Bouquet, A Tisket A Tasket,
Sunny Sunday, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Miniatures Stickers; Freestyle
Sophisticates: Freestyle Banana; High Five Alpha Stickers: Gulf, Piggy-Punch,
Green, Yellow; Designer Tape: Pickle Juice Stripe, Blue Chevron, Pony Dot; Button
Market: Hot Pink Flowers, Gulf Squares
"The Easter Egg Hunt", by
Leanne Allinson.
I've been wanting to make my layouts more interactive lately, as well as document the story behind the photo and use gorgeous patterned paper. With Easter approaching I also thought this would be the perfect time to see if my idea works!
First I created a small card with a pop-up rabbit inside. I found a free pop-up rabbit template on Pinterest and sized it to fit into the card that would be adhered to my layout. I traced the template onto cardstock and then covered it with patterned papers from Bella's Birthday Girl collection.
The embellished template was then folded and adhered to the card. The next step was to fussy cut enough flowers from the Sand & Surf Paradise patterned paper, to embellish both the front and inside of the small card. I also mixed in some fussy cut flowers from the Birthday Girl Party Dress patterned paper, to create more depth and interest.
When it came to designing my layout, I still wanted to retain some white space and keep the flap of the card somewhat disguised until you looked closely. The discreet paper clip holds the flap down so the focus remains on the photo. As the card opens, it reveals my journaling and the surprise 3D element of the bunny.
The front of the card then covers my photo so that the focus now changes to settle on the bunny in a field of Spring flowers.
To attach the card to my layout, I used strong double sided tape. Another option would be to machine stitch it into place. The layout was then completed with clusters of more fussy cut flowers and an Easter banner in the top corner, created from the Spring Flings and Easter Things miniatures stickers.
Supplies:
Sand & Surf: Paradise, Borders & Cute Cuts, Flying High, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Spring Flings & Easter Things: Miniatures Stickers; Birthday Girl: Party Dress, Borders, Miles of Smiles; Freestyle Sophisticates: Freestyle Saltwater; High Five Alpha Stickers: Gulf; Flags: Sand & Surf; Ciao Chip Elements: Borders
Lovin' all these awesome projects! :)
Posted by: Kathy Martin | March 27, 2013 at 08:05 AM
OMYGOSH!!! These are all fabulous!! LOVING that pop up bunny on Jenny's lo!! WOW!!
Posted by: Julie Tucker-Wolek | March 27, 2013 at 08:25 AM
Leanne's bunny pop up is AMAZINGLY cute!! What a fun surprise! Love all that fabulous fussy cutting as well. Kim's woodgrain with the yellow is just stunning!
Posted by: Chantalle | March 27, 2013 at 09:36 AM
Julie I think you mean the pop up bunny book that's on Leanne Allinson's layout!
Gorgeous projects today, and yes that little pop-up book is too darn clever indeed. Great Easter inspiration Leanne.
And how lovely to see a layout with six photos, it's not often these days that you see an abundance of photos on a layout and Kim does it beautifully.
Posted by: Melinda Spinks | March 27, 2013 at 09:40 AM
Oh how Caaaaute is that bunny love it Leanne !
Posted by: Kim j | March 27, 2013 at 09:45 AM
What a fun idea to include the popup card in the layout.
Posted by: Jean Bullock | March 27, 2013 at 03:06 PM
These are gorgeous! And what a clever idea with Leanne's pop up card! Love it!
Posted by: Kerryn | March 27, 2013 at 04:31 PM