Paige Evans ~ Bungalow Lane #4

Good afternoon everyone, it’s Anna back again sharing my 4th layout with Paige Evans Bungalow Lane collection! 

I’ve had so many ideas for this collection I just had to continue creating with it. You can find it all in the shop here.

 For this layout, I have focused on Paper 9. All of those leaves were just crying out to be fussy cut! I decided to do some hand stitching on them to create my own background. 

So I began with a 12x12 sheet of cream bazzill cardstock. I then cut out pretty much all of the leaves that I could from Paper 9. I arranged them on my page how I wanted them and stuck them down just in the centre to begin with. I then spent many evenings(!) hand stitching on top of, or around lots of the leaves. I did leave some of them as they were though. 

I then mounted my photograph on to the b side of Paper 4 and some black cardstock too. I raised this onto foam pads, so it sat better on top of my stitched background. 

I mounted the foam word ‘hello’ from the home sweet home phrase stickers onto the b side of Paper 11. As it needed something behind it to help it stand out. I also mounted this on to foam pads. 

I cut out the ‘falling in love’ leaf from Paper 23 and adhered it beside my photo. 

I then began to add the final embellishments around my photo and to do this I used some of the home sweet home phrase thickers and the embossed puffy stickers from the new Jen Hadfield Peaceful heart  collection. 

Thanks so much for looking! Enjoy the rest of your weekends. 

See you again soon. 

Anna

Paige Evans ~ Bungalow Lane #3

Hi everyone! 

It’s Anna back with you today to share another layout using Paige Evans’ Bungalow Lane collection. 

This collection is so beautiful, so why not take a look at it ok the shop here..

 

For this layout, I began with a sheet of white bazzill cardstock from the matchmaker pack (gutted and the centre used for the cutfile), with a piece of blue bazzill cardstock mounted on top. I trimmed the blue bazzill down by about an inch each side and then hand stitched a boarder around the outside on the white cardstock. 

I then cut out a scalloped circle cutfile, also by Paige Evans using my silhouette cameo. 

The semi circles on Paper 15 are pretty much the same size as the scallops, so I cut out lots of those and backed the cutfile with them. 

I then backed the smallest circle with the b side of Paper 20. 

To fit in well with the photograph I was using, I fussy cut out a few of the sunflowers from the sweet as honey sunflowers patterned paper by Photoplay and dotted them around the scallops. I also double mounted my photo with the a and b side of this paper. 

To the left of my photograph, I have added a flower and heart from the dimensional banner stickers, as well as some bigger sunflower clusters and a few Pinkfresh Studio Jewel essentials.

I used some thickers for my title fo finish and that was me done!

Thanks so much for looking! 

See you again soon. 

Anna 

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Paige Evans ~ Bungalow Lane #2

Hi! It’s Anna here with another layout using Paige Evans’ Bungalow Lane collection! I have just adored playing with this collection, you can find what’s left in the shop here. 

For this layout I decided to focus on Paper 13.

It’s a busy pattern, but I wanted to showcase how it could be used on your layouts…

I began by using white bazzill cardstock as my base. I then trimmed down two 12 inch strips of the b side of Paper 4 and two torn strips from the other side.  

I mounted these to each side of my bazzill cardstock. 

I then cut out a selection of the patterned squares from paper 13.

I trimmed some of them down further to just the triangle, diamond or circle shapes to create some areas of white space. 

I arranged these together in a grid in the centre of the layout, leaving a slight gap in between each one. 

I made a pull out journaling card to tuck behind the largest photo, using a trimmed down project life card, which I stuck ‘the story’ foam sticker - from the phrase thickers - to the top of (I backed it first with some scrap cardstock to stop it sticking to the layout) 

I mounted both of my square photos on to the b side Paper 13. 

I added a title along the bottom of the grid and a few foam word stickers from the home sweet home phrase thickers.

I added embellishment to some of the grid squares by adding some dimensional stickers, enamel dots, foam stickers and punched out stars, I adhered some of them using 3D foam pads for extra dimension too. 

Thanks so much for looking! 

See you again soon. 

Anna 

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Paige Evans ~ Bungalow Lane #1

Hi all, 

It’s Anna back with you today and for September I am working with Paige Evans’ Bungalow Lane collection! 

I love this collection, with plenty of bright, bold patterns, florals and hints of autumnal tones too. You can find the collection in the shop here. 

I have been working with a selection of the patterned papers, matchmaker cardstock, dimensional stickers and Home Sweet Home Phrase Stickers as well as a few extra pieces from my stash. 

I really wanted to use this collection to document a summer trip to a sunflower field as I thought the colours would work really well with this collection. So I began by cutting out a large sunflower cutfile (also by Paige Evans) on white bazzill cardstock. I backed both the petals and centre with paper 11 .  

I then set about deciding what patterned paper or cardstock the cutfile would work best against. I tried several options, all of which weren’t quite working. But when I tried the b side of paper 17 this went quite well with the blues in my photos as well as the vertical stripes of the deckchairs. 

I mounted my photographs onto the b side of paper 15. 

I also fussy cut a few of  the semi circles from this paper too and adhered them under each photo. I also tore a strip of paper 4 and placed it at the bottom of my layout. 

I made a hidden journaling element using a trimmed down project life card and a phrase from paper 23, which I tucked under a photograph.

I used a floral from the dimensional stickers in between my two photographs and the happiness phrase and a heart above the right photo. I then finished by adding a title using some of the foam phrase stickers from the Home Sweet Home Phrase Stickers. 

Thanks so much for looking and I’ll see you soon with another layout using Bungalow Lane! 

Anna

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Bungalow Lane - American Crafts Paige Evans - 'Make Happiness' by Meg

Hello there - I am SO excited today to be showing my first layout using the gorgeous American Crafts 'Bungalow Lane' collection by Paige Evans! 

This collection is so beautifully warm - it feels like the perfect blend between Summer and Autumn (which I'm really embracing now, with the blustery windy wet weather and with the nights feeling like they're getting longer already)! But this collection is also bright and cheerful so I can absolutely see it being used for scrapping Spring photos too. I absolutely adore it! 

In my Design Team pack I received a few of the geometric patterned papers and Paper #18 caught my eye - I'm a sucker for pink and those triangles just looked so interesting, I really wanted to use some of it as a background. I flicked through some of the other papers to decide which would 'go' best with #18 and I loved the effect of it against the leafy red Paper #15. I loved the bold red and decided I wanted to go a little crazy with it (since I very rarely use red), so I pulled out some plain red Bazzill cardstock to match Paper #15 and to contrast with all the patterns. 

The dark leaf from the pack of Ephemera Icons with Copper Foil caught my eye and I decided to use it as a template to trace around and cut out some red leaves from the plain Bazzill cardstock and a few leaves using the pretty red patterned Paper #15. I distressed and curled the edges of the leaves to add some dimension to my page and began arranging on my background paper to decide how I wanted the layout to look. 

I thought about having the red leaves look as though they were falling across the page diagonally but I changed my mind and decided to have them 'falling' straight down the centre. I really liked the plain red leaves against the patterned background but thought it needed breaking up a little, so I used a strip of pink Blossom Bazzill cardstock in the centre, which I then splattered with some red paint. 

I layered my autumn photo up with some more pink Blossom Bazzill cardstock and one of the blue cut-apart journalling elements from Paper #24. I used copper photo corners that I had in my stash already, but they ended up not really being visible in the end due to me layering the leaves over them! 

I began assembling my page and arranging my leaves and photo together in the centre, before adhering everything down and adding a few more pieces of Ephemera (the phrase strips and the copper 'Make Happiness' banner) from the Copper Foil Ephemera pack. I finished my page with some Bright Gold Nuvo Drops, flat back gems from my stash and journalling. 

I'm thrilled with how bold the page ended up looking and I really like the combination of colours - but if red isn't your colour, you could experiment with leaves in any other colour, as Paige Evans' Bungalow Lane is just jam-packed with colour and the combinations are so flexible! You really can just pick a colour and go for it. 

I hope you enjoyed my page today as much as I enjoyed creating it and thank you for looking! 

Take care and I'll be back with another Bungalow Lane page soon, 

Meg x