Great Outdoors Adventure - Simple Stories - Simple Vintage Woodlands Collection

Hi everyone!

It’s Rebecca here, sharing my second layout of the month with you. With the heat this week, it’s been lovely to escape indoors and scrap some cosy autumnal photos using the Simple Vintage Woodlands collection. You can check out the full Simple Stories collection here.

There are so many gorgeous patterned papers in this collection! After picking a few of my favourites, I cut them into 3.5 x 3.5-inch squares. I arranged them slightly off-centre and overlapped them a little to give the page a more relaxed, layered look. I then mounted my photo on white cardstock, followed by a darker patterned paper to create contrast, and placed it on top of the squares.

Next, I fussy-cut a couple of tags from the Tag Elements patterned paper, punched a gold metal eyelet through the top of each, and threaded some gold metallic thread through them for a touch of texture and shimmer.

For my title, I chose a Foam Sticker and placed it just beneath the photo, extending it with a die-cut phrase (from the Bits & Pieces) to read ‘Great Outdoors Adventure.’ I love mixing different textures and materials when building my titles — it adds so much interest and is always fun to experiment with!

I used Floral Bits & Pieces and Element Stickers to create clusters on either side of the photo. I chose several of the toadstool designs since we spotted so many of them on that woodland walk — such a fun way to bring the memory into the layout!

To finish the layout, I added a few fussy-cut butterflies and tore a section on the right side of the background. I backed the torn area with a coordinating patterned paper, which really helped balance the layout and tie everything together.

Thanks so much for stopping by and reading! I’ve really enjoyed working with the Simple Vintage Woodlands collection this month — it’s such a lovely range. It’s available in the shop now, so be sure to grab it while you can!

Take care,
Rebecca xx

@preciouspagespapercraft 

Pretty Little Studio - You Are My Sunshine - Happy Dog

Hello,

It's Claire here today sharing a new layout with the You Are My Sunshine collection from Pretty Little Studio. Check out the collection in full here. 

For this layout, I'm focusing on those gorgeous scallops from the Be Cheerful paper.

I fussy cut each strip in varying lengths and then chose 8 to use on my page, focusing on the solid colours rather than the bold patterned strips.

I layered these vertically, laying the scallops back to back. I only adhered the straight edge of each strip with glue, meaning I could lightly ruffle the edges to lift the scalloped edge off the page, creating dimension. 

Next I mounted my photos on a piece of green card from the Matchmaker Pack. I raised the photos on foam, offsetting them against the scallops. 

To embellish, I reached for the stars from the Under the Stars die cuts and scattered these around my photo. 

Then, to turn this from a bright summery layout into a warm autumnal layout, I grabbed some leaf dies and cut some leaves from the cardstock in the Matchmaker pack, which matches the colours in the collection perfectly. 

I inked the edges of the leaves for extra interest and mixed this in amongst the stars. 

To create the title, I grabbed some alphas from my stash and positioned the title along the vertical edge of the scallop. 

As a final touch, I added some phrases from the Pet Lovers Word Stickers. 

I hope you've enjoyed this blog and have been inspired to create. 

Until next month, happy scrapping! 

Claire xx

@scrappysoulmate