My Candy Girl - 'Sugar and Spice' by Meg

Hello everyone, it's Meg here sharing my latest layout using the delicious My Candy Girl collection by Bella Blvd!

My previous page with this collection was super pink and girly, so I knew this time I wanted to use a photo of my baby boy and I picked out my photo of him in his baby blue dressing gown. I thought it went really well with the bright colours! 

I knew I wanted to make the page full of colour so I decided I would layer paper in a central square with a wide white border around the page to really frame the colour and balance it out. I measured and drew a 6x6 square on white Marshmallow Bazzill cardstock in pencil and cut strips from yellow Lemonade Bazzill cardstock. I then cut the striped turquoise border from the My Candy Girl Borders paper, cut it in half, arranged my strips in the square and trimmed them to fit. 

I glued in place, distressed the edges and handstitched across the strips and around the 6x6 square using a ruler and a pokey tool to poke holes in the paper every quarter inch, then I stitched in a dark pink glittery thread I had in my stash already. I fussy cut elements from the Borders paper, Sweet as Sugar paper and I cut out the 'Sugar and Spice' journaling element, 'S is for Sweet' plus a turquoise frame from the Daily Details paper. 

I splattered some pink acrylic around the edges of my 6x6 square and began tucking in my fussy-cut photo and the other fussy-cut elements in between the paper layers, in a triangle shape around my photo to draw attention to it. I finished with the Sugar Coating Puffy Stickers, flat back gems and a diamond shaped charm from my stash. 

And thats it! A colour-packed, sweet layout that came together quickly using My Candy Girl. I really loved how this turned out as I find bold colours a challenge sometimes, but these pieces are so cute and fun they feel like they don't need to be put together 'perfectly' to look good! 

Hope you enjoyed this page today and take care, 

Meg x