Lisa-Jane Johnson | Vertical Design | Stay Colourful

Hi scrappers!  It's Lisa-Jane from Pretty My Page here with you today with my layout for the "vertical placement" challenge.

I hope you are all keeping well and have good supplies of the important stuff... cake, tea, double sided tape, patterned paper...  At least we won't run out of things to do if we are quarantined, but if you run out of photos, or fancy a laugh, you could try taking some pictures with Snapchat filters like I did here very late one night on a retreat.

I've taken inspiration from a couple of similar layouts that I've seen on the Cocoa Vanilla social media using the striped multi-coloured papers that they usually have in each collection.  I was saving the last strip of mine so it was a good time to use it on a page rather than me sitting admiring it.

I tore it into pieces and spread them the full height of the page but I wanted to overlap them so I needed more than the 12 inches of the strip.  I mounted my base cardstock onto a coordinating border and then added in some denser patterns from the border strips - I don't throw much away!

I had some Simple Stories stickers from a planner pad that matched really well so I spread those along the rainbow with some fussy cut butterflies and die cut hearts.

Finally sprinkled some enamel shapes and dots around the rainbow and added the Stay Colourful die cut for the title.  Spelled the UK way!  Huzzah!  

I've been meaning to do a colour on colour layout for a while and I'm so pleased with how everything came together on this one.  I hope you've been inspired by the team's layouts so far!

Create Happy Times | Zoe Hailey (Zola28) | Selfie

What a great theme for September; Selfies!

Personally,  I am not a massive selfie taker so this month I have forced myself to take more photographs of me and I have actually ended up scrapping three pages of myself! ( I have even made my layout for our December theme, which is really fun!)

With so many gorgeous new collections coming out, I'm challenging myself to use up some of my older stuff, mainly to make room for the new! So I have worked with Cocoa Vanilla Studio's gorgeous collection; Happiness. I just love this flower reef paper and I had four sheets of it, so on this page, I used two up in my layering.

If fussy cutting isn't your thing (and it isn't usually mine) then this may not be a page for you. I fussy cut two pages of the reef paper and then mounted them on black card and cut them both out again. Adding the outer reef up on foam pads, for even more dimension. I really wanted to bring in the black from my sunglasses and I am pleased with how it turned out.

Of course once I had done that on the reefs, I decided I needed to do the same on the butterflies and it really helps them stand out on a very busy colourful page. I love the shadows they create too.

I really enjoyed making this layout, I love the florals and the beautiful colour palette in the Happiness collection. I hope you enjoy scrapping a selfie or two this month and look forward to seeing your creations in our Facebook Group UK Scrap Addicts.

Zoe ( Follow me on Instagram Zola28)

Beau Alise | Sarah Costain | Fussy Cutting

 Sarah here today with my take on this months theme of fussy cutting.

I must admit I am not a fan of fussy cutting so this was a challenge for me. I decided to use some rose gold foiled words from a white 12 x 12 sheet and cut them with a small border. The white on white helped disguise my less than perfect cutting skills and my Cutter Bee scissors definitely helped too!!

The rest of the layout was more in my comfort zone with lots of mixed media mostly from one of the Thompsons Craft Supplies kits.

I began by building up layers of watercolour in reds pinks and yellows. Once this had dried I added texture paste on top followed by white gesso to mute the colours slightly to match my papers and embellishments.

I created a paper cluster behind my photo using some lace and cheese cloth for added texture and to soften the layers. Between the layers I added foam to create more dimension and I added a circle embellishment and butterflies to frame my picture.

Using the shape of my watercolour background as a guide I scattered clusters of flowers and gems over the page and tucked in a tag to the paper layers.

As a finishing touch I added splashes of ink to match the rose gold title and some pink and blue Nuvo drops between the flowers.

You can check out the process video of my layout being created in more detail here.

https://youtu.be/VBiFF7azU8U

Thanks for joining me and have a Happy Scrappy Day :)

Sarah

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