March Papermaze Kit - Part 1

Welcome to the March Papermaze Kit, and I'm kicking off with a double layout for a change. Both these layouts can be independent of one another, they can also be arranged either way around. The March kit is full of pretty spring papers, embellishments and cardstock colours. The photos show my baby granddaughter and friends at the sensory group they attend weekly, celebrating World Book Day, Flo's favourite book of the moment being a Peek-A-Book Book with a strawberry character on the front, so she is dressed in strawberries!

Here is the kit, showing the 6 papers, 2 sheets of cardstock and a selection of matching embellishments to try. Don't forget there is also a pack of 4 sheets of cardstock, selected by Vanessa, to go with the kit as an extra purchase (see all six sheets of cardstock in a photo below).

Patterned papers:
Simple Stories - Tea Garden collection - Lovely Day & Be Happy
Echo Park - Blossoms & Bees collection - 4 x 4 Journalling Cards & Bright Hexagons
Echo Park - Little Things Mean A Lot collection - Free Spirit Fireflies
Mintay Papers - Blossom Serenity collection - #04

The photo below shows both sides of the papers:

Embellishments: SS 8 Tea Garden Bits & Pieces, Rosie's Studio butterfly, 2 Rosie's Studio Button Embellishments, 3 wooden butterflies, strip of puffy flower stickers, selection of Rosie's Studio puffy sentiments, 3 mini flowers, strip of Doodlebug enamel heart sprinkles.

Bazzill Basics Cardstock:
CS White & Parakeet (included in main kit). Yukon Gold, Twilight, Petalsoft & Lagoon (in extra Bazzill Pack).

World Book Day - Left-Hand Side

For the left-hand layout, I used the Lagoon Bazzill as the backing. I wanted to use the photo of Flo and her friends as the main feature, so printed it A4 size. Then with the sheet of EP Bright Hexagons, I set about cutting a frame of hexagon shapes, cutting the center of the paper away in an irregular pattern. (I set aside the centre of this sheet of paper for use on the right-hand side.)

I set the frame of hexagons over the Bazzill, and arranged the photo to the left side of the page, leaving room for the details and title. I cut three tags using scrap white card and the Sizzix, Tim Holtz, Tag Collection die set. With a little of the Yukon Gold Bazzill I cut the rings to reinforce the tag holes and threaded them with some orange ribbon from my stash. I placed the tags to the top right of the photo and added my journalling.

I made the title with several different fonts on the Cricut, and cut with various scraps of Bazzill from the kit and my stash. I placed the title to vertically to the right of the photo.

To embellish this page I used the Rosie's Studio Button Embellishments, strip of Doodlebug enamel heart sprinkles and some of the Tea Garden Bits & Pieces, keeping some back for the next page.

Peekaboo - Right-hand side

For this page I purchased an extra sheet of Lagoon Bazzill as the backing, to match the first layout. From the left-over piece Bright Hexagons paper, I cut three irregular panels of hexagons. These were placed vertically onto the Bazzill. 

On the Bright Hexagons paper many of the hexagons have several layers and a heart in the centre, I wanted to recreate this as a large shape, to use for the title. I created these shapes using my Cricut - two hexagons in Yukon Gold Bazzill, one with 9cm sides and the other with 10.5cm sides. Then I cut another hexagon from some white scrap cardstock measuring 9.45cm.  These were layered up, then I added a heart shape cut from the same white cardstock, 11.5cm across. I placed the finished shape over the three strips of paper.

I placed my four photos across the layout, leaving enough white space to add a title later.

I used the Cricut to cut the date, in more scraps of Bazzill from the kit and my own stash. I placed the date in the bottom left corner of the page. I also made the title and place this over the white heart.

I embellished the page using the same elements as for the left side (Rosie's Studio Button Embellishments, strip of Doodlebug enamel heart sprinkles and some of the Tea Garden Bits & Pieces).

That's all for today, I'll be back later with two single layouts made from the same kit.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x