Anchors Away - Simple Stories - Simple Vintage Vintage Seas Collection

Hello, it's Rebecca with you today and I'm back with my final layout created with the Simple Vintage Vintage Seas collection from Simple Stories. I'm not sure I have ever enjoyed working with a collection so much before! You can find it in the shop here.

I absolutely adore all the patterns in this collection so wanted to get as many of them on the layout as possible. I selected my favourite papers and cut some strips from them, 2 inches wide. I cut them at varying lengths and arranged them along the top of the page, starting with the shortest. The first strip is 3 inches long, and then each one gets longer by one inch. I used a mix of 12x12 individual papers, and some from the 6x8 Paper . I machine stitched around the edge of each strip before adhering them to my background with adhesive foam behind them.

I selected one of the Chipboard Frames to house my photo. I chose the ship wheel frame because this layout documents a sailing trip I took my little boy on and he is stood at the wheel of the boat playing Captain! I placed it over to the right hand side of my page, on top of the longer patterned strips.

I wasn't happy with the bottom half of my page. I am a lover of 'white space' on a layout - but this was feeling more like empty space to me! I decided to add more of the patterned strips - but on a smaller scale. I reversed the patterns and lengths, which left me a nice amount of white space in the centre of my page.

I've used a Bramble Fox perspextive for my title which says 'Anchors Away' - perfect for my photo and this collection!

I had a lot of fun embellishing this page. The chipboard frame had a lighthouse on it - which didn't really work with the story I was documenting - so I cut it off and replaced it with a sail boat die cut from the Nautical Bits pack. I then built up some small clusters either side of my photo using bits from the same pack, and also the Bits & Pieces and Chipboard Stickers.

The page was feeling very heavy on the right hand side, so I decided to create some small clusters on the left of the page to balance it out. I made a small cluster at the top of the page and another at the bottom. To these clusters, I also added some small phrase stickers from the Sticker Book.

To finish the layout off, I added some white splatters using watered-down white gesso.

I hope you've enjoyed this layout and the others I've created using this collection. There is a process video available on my YouTube channel here if you'd like to watch it come together. 

Thanks for reading. I'll be back next month with an exciting new collection.

Take care,

Rebecca x

@preciouspagespapercraft