Hi friends,
it's Lisa back on the blog and I'm really excited to share my first layout using the new Falala collection. :)
The assignment this week was to use the Falala collection combined with the Hearts&Ombré Bella Besties. As I already said in previous posts, I LOVE the new Besties. I need hearts on every layout and the ombre papers are AMAZING to use as backgrounds!!!
So to start, I went through the papers from the Falala collection. The striped one immediately caught my eye, I just love papers like that. I had a hard time though, deciding if I wanted to use it as a background or to create my reindeer with... :) The collection has this cute little reindeer and I was inspired to recreate it on a larger scale. I finally went with using the paper for the reindeer and I think it turned out really cool.
I drew my deer onto the paper, cut it out and adhered it to white paper to create that white border around, that I like so much. Since I wasn't really in the mood for hand-stitching, I used a dauber and my Distress Oxides to add a faded border around my dear and then traced a black scribbly line all around the different parts.
To add more interest to my reindeer, I added chipboard flowers from the Ciao Chip sticker sheet on its head and added some tangled thread in matching colors behind each flower. I also placed an enamel dot in each of the centers. The enamel dots were also great to create the illusion of twinkly lights on the deer's antlers. :)
Before adhering my deer to the background, I chose one of the green and pink Bella Besties papers. I cut them in the middle with an angle and attached them to one another. Then I did some mixed media. Using my finger, I painted white circles in different sizes, going from the center to the sides of the paper. Then I did the same with pink and green paint. To finish, I splattered white paint all around... as always... :) I think the background looks very cool. I enjoy creating these bokeh kind of backgrounds very much lately!!
When the background was dry, I attached my deer and also the photo that I matted with some scraps of patterned paper, to it. The photo is one I took six years ago, when we spent Christmas in Honolulu. :)
For my title, I used four different fonts and alphas. "Merry" is an enamel sticker, "Christmas" is from the Ciao Chip sticker sheet, "in" is from the collections's cardstock sticker sheet and "Hawaii", I wrote using the Aria puffy alphas. I really like how it turned out.:)
To finish, I added some enamel stars, a Christmas tree Bella-Pop, a Cute Clips bow and some stickers.
I hope you like that layout and are inspired to create something super cute to document your Christmas days or just some amazing Winter or family days.
Thank you so much for stopping by,
see you soon,
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