Happy Together

Hi!

My assignment this month for the Paper Issues design Team is Swanky Swatches.

I love these colors! I also love the selection of fruit and the roundness of the fruit. I decided I will take inspiration from the colors, fruit and the circles. The fruit are fresh and summery, so I decided to scrap a photo of my husband and my baby enjoying our water slide in our back yard.

I used the beautiful Pebbles, Jen Hadfield, Patio Party. I love the colors, however, I wanted to tome the colors down a bit to match the muted tones in the swatch. So I added some vellum to the mix. I punched out 2" and 1.5" circles from the pattern paper from the collection, and the vellum. I decided do some stamping on y background with an older Martha Stewart circle stamp. I kept the bulk of the layout to the right hand side of the page. I scattered the stamping and some Heidi Swapp color shine, Butter and Citron to create the background. 

I did print my photo out quite small, as I wanted the layout very light and airy. 

I fussy cut the flowers out from a pattern paper from the collection and used them to frame the photo. The complete the layering of the photo, I used one of the recipe card cut a parts in the 12x12 paper pad and added some vellum. The butterflies I scattered around the photo can be found in the ephemera pack. You will see that I used the vellum to layer over the patterned paper circles. I used brads form my stash to attach some of the circles to the paper. 

I usually tend to place the titles of my layouts below my photo, but I thought I would spice things up and place my title above the photo. 

Here are some close ups... 

Hope this beautiful Swatch inspires you to create!!!!

Here is the link to the process video for this layout!

Enjoy! 

Fly High

Hello!

I hope I find you all well!

We have some gorgeous cut files to work with this month and I was immediately drawn to the Butterfly Background 3 design. I love the way the butterflies seem to almost flourish around and off the page. 

I cut two copies of the cut file, I used one for the base of my butterfly cluster whereas I cut out the inside of the wings of the butterflies of the second copy. 

Here you have a closer look at how I did this.

 

I decided that I wanted a lot of layers to make up the butterflies, so I traced around the butterflies and cut out each butterfly from a different patterned paper from the Jen Hadfield, Patio Party collection. This gave the butterflies three layers, however I wanted to tone down the bright colors of the patterned paper butterflies a bit, so I backed the top layer of the butterfly cut file with some tracing paper, and that gave the perfect hazy look I wanted to create. 

Here you can see the all the layers.

The tracing paper tones down all the colors a lot so I had to add some color to the background, and what better way to do this than with some Heidi Swapp Color shine! I used the Hot pink and the Butter, and basically just sprayed it straight onto the background paper, this added just the right amounts f color in the right spots. 

To bring in some more color, I dug through the Patio Party ephemera pack and knew straight away that I wanted to use those beautiful florals. I also did some fussy cutting from one of the patterned papers to add to the floral clusters. 

I first had the idea that I wanted my title to be, 'Fly my pretty!', but then I didn't have enough of those gold thickers, so I changed the title to 'Fly High'.

Oh, and before I forget, I did some hand stitching through the centers of the butterflies, I thought that they needed a spot of pink!

Here is the final layout. 

I hope that you find inspiration and make the cut files work for you, like I did with this beautiful one! By using my craft knife and cutting out the centers of the butterfly wings I made the cut file my own and I loved the effect that the tracing paper gives.

Here is the link to the Process video!
Scrapbook Process Video no. 30 / JustNick Butterfly Background 3

Enjoy!