Crate Paper Gingham Garden - Remote Working

Hello Karen here today with another layout to share using the lovely Gingham Garden collection from Crate Paper. My last layout was very pretty and girly so this time I challenged myself to create something a bit different.

I started by gutting a sheet of  the Greenhouse paper and then after trimming this down slightly I layered the B side onto a sheet of 12x12 black cardstock leaving a narrow border round the edge. Onto this I then layered the B side of a trimmed down a sheet of the Lovely One paper again leaving a narrow border round the edge.

To add some details I doodled round the edge of the Lovely One paper with a black gel pen and later did the same on some of the other elements.

My two 3½ x 5 photos were matted on white cardstock and then on more of the Greenhouse paper and attached to the right side of the layout.

The Lovely One paper is a ledger paper but it also has a subtle floral design in the corner which I wanted to expand so I took some clear stickers from the sticker book and some velum pieces from the ephemera pack and tucked these underneath and around the photos. 

Using my Silhouette Cameo I cut a title from black cardstock and placed this horizontally across the layout.

Two tags from the Be Kind paper and one from the ephemera pack were threaded with black and white Barker Twine and then placed in the left corner of the layout. I diecut some small alphas from a scrap of the Greenhouse paper and used these to spell out details of where and when the photos were taken on the tags. The tags were outlined in black gel pen and a tab (from my stash) was stapled to the edge.

Journaling strips were printed on the computer, outlined in gel pan and then glued beneath the title.

Finally I scattered a few stars from the sticker book around the layout.

I hope you like this layout and that it shows that pretty, girly collections don't only have to be used for girly layouts.

Take Care

Karen x x