Hi everyone! It's Kirei here with my very first blog post and I'm super excited to be sharing the layout I created with the fabulous new Cap & Gown collection! I decided to use the collection in a non-graduation way as there are so many great patterned papers and embellishments that can be used to tell other stories.... so I pulled out some photos from a few years back of me receiving my Disney Store 20 Year Anniversary Award from the boss himself.... Mickey Mouse (who is also my fave character)!
I started by picking out the Just Graduated paper (black spots on grey) and gutted the centre leaving a 1" frame. Then I trimmed the Dream Big paper (black stars on white) down to 11½" square, distressed the edges and stuck down to the black spotted frame.
Now I wanted to use the Clear Cuts Star Studded acetate sheet in some way so decided to create a cute shaker pocket which is super easy to make! I pulled out the silver diamonds photo frame from the Cap & Gown Ephemera Words set, then stuck a piece of the Star Studded acetate to the reverse of it. I added a row of foam pads around the border on the back, filled it with some of the Sequin Mix in Domino and then backed it with a piece of That's a Wrap paper (grey hearts on black) and there you have it... one little shaker pocket!
Now it was time to start adding the details to my layout... firstly I added the black scalloped border from the Cap & Gown Doohickey Stickers across the centre of my page. I backed my three photos using the Just Graduated paper, distressed the edges and then stuck them down using foam pads on the top edges only (stuck flat along the bottom). I did leave a gap at the top of the photos so that I could tuck in two tags from the Ephemera Words set, I distressed the edges and tied some red twine to both before adding my journaling to one of them.
I created embellishment clusters above and below my photos using the Cap & Gown Ephemera Words and Icons, Celebrate Epoxy Stickers and Ciao Chip Icons.
Next was to add my title which was a combination of the Ephemera Words and the Florence Alpha.
I added a few extra pops of red to tie in with my photo using some red stars from the Trinkets Puffy Stickers and I was done!
I hope you have enjoyed seeing how I used the Cap & Gown collection and can take some inspiration from it.
Thanks so much for stopping by and I'll see you in my next post!
Kirei x
Bella Boulevard products used on my layout...
Cap & Gown patterned papers - Just Graduated, Dream Big and That's a Wrap
Cap & Gown Ephemera Words and Icons
Cap & Gown Doohickey Stickers
Cap & Gown Ciao Chip Icons
Cap & Gown Celebrate Epoxy Stickers
Clear Cuts - Star Studded
Sequin Mix - Domino
Trinkets Puffy Stickers - McIntosh
Florence Alpha - McIntosh