American Crafts Paige Evans - Adventurous - Beautiful Place

Hello, Karen here. I'm really excited to be working this month with the new Paige Evans Adventurous Collection from American Crafts. I've been eagerly awaiting the arrival of this collection in the shop, and when the postman delivered my design team kit I wasn't disappointed! It is gorgeous. The collection is very vibrant and perfect for scrapbooking your travel and holiday memories but is equally great for general summer and everyday scrapbooking.

For my first layout I chose to scrapbook a photo collage using some photos from our summer holiday last year.

I started by layering onto a sheet of 12x12 white cardstock, squares of papers #18 & #19 with more white cardstock between. I used the B sides of the patterned papers but because I want to use the A sides on another project, I carefully gutted the papers before sticking  them down. Using white thread I machine stitched a straight stitch around the edges of the papers.

On top of the patterned papers I placed my square photo collage which I created on my phone in the Google Photos app.

Using one of Paige's older 'layered flowers' digital cut files and some scraps of paper, I created some three dimensional layered flowers to embellish the layout.

I used some white chalk ink to add some interest to the flowers and curled up the petals a little too.

The flowers were placed in the corners of the photo collage with some leaves from the Icon (Floral) Ephemera pack. I like the pop of turquoise the leaves give the layout.

Two tags from the Journalling Ephemera pack were strung with some twine and then added to the layout. I added journalling to one of the tags.

I stamped the date onto a tab and placed this at the top of the layout together with a word cut from paper #1. As the collection has gold foil accents, I matted the word onto some gold mirror card to echo the gold on the tag I had already added to the layout.

I used a word from the sheet of Phrase Thickers and the gold Mini Alphabet Thickers to cerate a title at the bottom of the page.

Finally I fussy cut two butterflies from paper #19, added them to the layout and hand stitched some butterfly trails with turquoise embroidery floss.

I hope you are as excited to use Paige's new collection as I am, and it is available in the shop now.

I'll be back again soon with another layout and until then, take care and enjoy the summer.

Karen x x