Hello there - I am SO excited today to be showing my first layout using the gorgeous American Crafts 'Bungalow Lane' collection by Paige Evans!
This collection is so beautifully warm - it feels like the perfect blend between Summer and Autumn (which I'm really embracing now, with the blustery windy wet weather and with the nights feeling like they're getting longer already)! But this collection is also bright and cheerful so I can absolutely see it being used for scrapping Spring photos too. I absolutely adore it!
In my Design Team pack I received a few of the geometric patterned papers and Paper #18 caught my eye - I'm a sucker for pink and those triangles just looked so interesting, I really wanted to use some of it as a background. I flicked through some of the other papers to decide which would 'go' best with #18 and I loved the effect of it against the leafy red Paper #15. I loved the bold red and decided I wanted to go a little crazy with it (since I very rarely use red), so I pulled out some plain red Bazzill cardstock to match Paper #15 and to contrast with all the patterns.
The dark leaf from the pack of Ephemera Icons with Copper Foil caught my eye and I decided to use it as a template to trace around and cut out some red leaves from the plain Bazzill cardstock and a few leaves using the pretty red patterned Paper #15. I distressed and curled the edges of the leaves to add some dimension to my page and began arranging on my background paper to decide how I wanted the layout to look.
I thought about having the red leaves look as though they were falling across the page diagonally but I changed my mind and decided to have them 'falling' straight down the centre. I really liked the plain red leaves against the patterned background but thought it needed breaking up a little, so I used a strip of pink Blossom Bazzill cardstock in the centre, which I then splattered with some red paint.
I layered my autumn photo up with some more pink Blossom Bazzill cardstock and one of the blue cut-apart journalling elements from Paper #24. I used copper photo corners that I had in my stash already, but they ended up not really being visible in the end due to me layering the leaves over them!
I began assembling my page and arranging my leaves and photo together in the centre, before adhering everything down and adding a few more pieces of Ephemera (the phrase strips and the copper 'Make Happiness' banner) from the Copper Foil Ephemera pack. I finished my page with some Bright Gold Nuvo Drops, flat back gems from my stash and journalling.
I'm thrilled with how bold the page ended up looking and I really like the combination of colours - but if red isn't your colour, you could experiment with leaves in any other colour, as Paige Evans' Bungalow Lane is just jam-packed with colour and the combinations are so flexible! You really can just pick a colour and go for it.
I hope you enjoyed my page today as much as I enjoyed creating it and thank you for looking!
Take care and I'll be back with another Bungalow Lane page soon,
Meg x
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