Hi everyone! I am loving the fabulous Cut-Outs that coordinate with the Let's Scrapbook collection! I chose the 'Creative Friends' title to feature on my layout as it was perfect with my photo from a recent trip over to Luxembourg with some of my scrappy friends to take part in a weekend workshop with the lovely Lisa Fonseca and Shara Crane. I love that scrapbooking has introduced me to so many wonderful people, and made some lifelong friends!
I wanted to create a large feature so pulled out the coordinating Cut-Outs to use as a title, picking 'Creative Friends'. I decided to back the 'Creative' in rainbow colours, so I used a mix of papers from the Let's Scrapbook collection and some from the Bella Besties papers so that I covered all the colours! Then I backed 'Friends' in black as I liked how that popped from the layout and also emphasised the word. I raised them both using foam pads as I like the dimension you get.
Then I added vertical stripes in the same rainbow colours to the top half of the layout, and then continued them on the bottom edge. This also allowed me to ground my bottom embellishment cluster rather than just have it 'floating'!
To add a little more texture to a layout I often add some hand-stitching so decided to do that here and added cross-stitches to the top and bottom stripes. I also stitched through the centre of some buttons from the Ephemera Icons, and some flower buttons that I fussy cut from one of the patterned papers.
I decided to change my photo to black and white as that just worked better with the all the rainbow colours I was using and would have just felt a little busy otherwise. I also mounted it using the same black paper as I had for 'Friends'. I then stuck down the 'Creative Friends' title and tucked in my photo just under the top edge.
Next was adding the embellishments, so I pulled out lots of the fun Ephemera Icons pieces, along with the Puffy Stickers, Epoxy Stickers and Doohickey Stickers and created clusters to the bottom of the layout and around the photo. I added the stitched buttons to the 'Friends' keeping them in rainbow order to echo the coloured stripes.
Then I added a few of the phrases from the Ephemera Words and Doohickey Stickers below the title, along with my journaling and I was done! Love how it turned out, makes me happy!
Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you got some inspiration for using the fun Cut-Outs or the fab Let's Scrapbook collection.
Kirei x
PRODUCTS USED - Let's Scrapbook collection:
Cut-Outs - Creative Friends
Patterned papers - I Love Scrapbooking, Junk it Up, Cut it Up, Color Lover and Photo Taker
Ephemera Words
Ephemera Icons
Epoxy Stickers
Puffy Stickers
Doohickey Stickers
Bella Besties Gingham & Stripes patterned paper - Orange and Plum
Bella Besties Freehand Graph & Dot patterned paper - Bell Pepper
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