Echo Park - Farmers Market - 'Ciao' for Now!

Hi Everyone and a warm welcome back to the blog!

I'm here sharing my first layout with the fabulous Farmers Market collection from Echo Park, and boy it's a fun one!

There are so many awesome papers, colours, patterns and ephemera pieces - you can really let your creativity run wild!

I grabbed the opportunity to use this collection with both hands - I thought it would be perfect to document the story of our first ever visit to the New Forest and Hampshire County Show back in 2019.

I decided to start with this layout, using a photo that I actually took on our way out of the show, where we discovered this HUGE cow - a perfect opportunity for a photo, right?! I couldn't resist a play on words for my title, replacing Ciao for now, with 'Cow for now!'

I started with a piece of white premium cardstock and cut a circle from the Gather Floral paper, to look like a sun. I distressed the edge of the circle for a bit of extra texture.

Using it as the anchor for my page, I built the design around it. I loved the large barn on the 4x6 Journaling Cards so fussy cut this, layering it on foam pads on top of the sun and and strip of the Multi Journaling Cards paper. I love these two gingham papers - they scream countryside and farming to me so I thought they were perfect for this layout.

Next, I got my 3"x4" photo and mounted it on to a bit more gingham patterned paper, this time in blue from the b side of the Produce Scale paper. I slipped the photo just under the barn, raised on some smaller foam pads for a bit of definition. This also allowed me to tuck in some extra embellishments around my picture.

Around my photo, I layered some stickers from the Element Stickers sheet, fussy cut a floral tag from the Multi Journaling Cards paper and a jar from the 4x6 Journaling Cards paper.

Underneath my photo, I added a small red tag saying 'So Lovely' from the Frames and Tags pack.

To balance the page, I made a small pinwheel from the Farmer Floral paper, secured with a glittered gem from my stash.

I also added some floral stickers from the sticker sheet around the edges of the barn, and a few Nuvo Drops around all the clusters in yellow, red and black.

Finally, the fun title! I followed the curve of the sun, using navy blue puffy alphas from the Reaching Out collection. Once the title was in place, I added my journaling underneath in black pen.

I absolutely love how this layout turned out. It came together really quickly as there were so many statement pieces available for fussy cutting, which the stickers complemented perfectly.  By also using different depths of sticky foam the layout also has lots of dimension.  I've tried to capture on the image below:

I hope you've enjoyed this one as I've some more layouts to share with you using this fun collection throughout August.

Until then, take care.

Claire

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Echo Park ~ Welcome Spring #1

Hello all, it’s Anna back with you today to share my first layout using Echo Park’s Welcome Spring collection. You can find the collection in the shop here!

For my first layout, I began with a white bazzill cardstock base. I added a strip of the ‘b’ side of the 6x4 journaling cards to the left hand side of the page, tearing the edge, I also added a strip of bazzill ‘African Daisy’ alongside it and also tore the edge of this piece. I added a few spatters of shimmerz paint in bubble gum blast and Christmas cheer and waited for it to dry. 

Meanwhile, I backed two Paige Evans pinwheel Cutfiles using the b side of the journaling cards patterned paper as well as some bazzill cardstock in the shades of ‘romance’ ‘African daisy’ and ‘lagoon’. I also made two of my own pinwheels from the ‘sunny spring days’ patterned paper. To make these two pinwheels, I cut one square measuring 4x4cm and the other 5x5cm. I centred my pinwheels with enamel dots by Pinkfresh Studio. 

To create my title, I fussy cut the sun, clouds and word ‘hello’ from the 6x4 journaling cards and selected ‘sunshine’ from the element sticker sheet. I mounted the clouds/hello title using 3D foam pads to slightly raise it from the page. 

 I mounted my photograph with a thin boarder of the ‘romance’ bazzill cardstock and added a second layer with the ‘sunny spring days’ patterned paper. 

I embellished my layout with stickers from the element stickers sheet. There are so many stickers on this sheet, images and wording in various sizes. I like having the option of smaller stickers too as you sometimes only need a little something. 

To finish I added a few shape sprinkles by doodlebug. 

Thanks so much for looking, I’ll be back with another layout from this collection soon! Have a great week!

Anna

IG ~ adisneycraftylifewithanna

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