It’s Your Time to Bloom - P13 Paper Products - Secret Garden Collection

Hi everyone, it’s Rebecca with you today sharing my second layout created with P13 Paper Products ‘Secret Garden’ collection. It’s a gorgeous collection made up of mainly purples and greens, so perfect for my Lavender field photos! You can shop the full collection here. 

I loved both sides of Paper #6 and really wanted to use both sides - so I cut a large envelope shape using my Silhouette Cameo 4. It’s a really simple cutfile, and I just had to fold 3 edges over, which gave me that gorgeous floral pattern, with the rich purple colour on the inside of the flap. A perfect way to showcase both sides of a patterned paper! I love how the bold, solid purple breaks up the busy floral pattern too. 

I printed 2 photos of my son out in the lavender fields, slightly smaller than 3x4 inches. I added a small white frame and then used 2 of the journalling cut-apart cards from Paper #5 to add some colour behind them. 

Placing the photos on top of my envelope, I added a banner behind them from the Die Cut Garland pack, to act as my title. 

One of the things I love most about P13 collections, is the fussy-cutting potential! Paper #7 is always a sheet of images for cutting, and there is usually a sheet of florals too - in this case, Paper #2. My weapon of choice for fussy cutting is my Cutterbee scissors, so I put them straight to work cutting out florals! 

I embellished all around my photos with florals from both papers, layering them with foam underneath to create some dimension. 

I also slotted in a few banners from the Decorative Tags #2, again layering them and tucking them in amongst the florals. 

I finished the layout off with a couple of stickers from Sticker Sheet #1, and a frame around the edge of my layout - using the outer edge of Paper #6. This is really simple to do, yet I find it so effective in tying the whole page together - especially as I’ve used the same pattern for my frame as I did for my envelope. 

I hope you’ve enjoyed this layout and my previous one using this beautiful collection. P13 collections are such great value for money, and I love that you can build up the collection with lots of smaller items. Be sure to check it out on the website! 

I’ll be back next month - and I’m super excited to be working with Simple Vintage Life in Bloom by Simple Stories (if I can ever bring myself to cut into it!!). 

Take care

Rebecca x

@preciouspagespapercraft