Love Forever / Jackie Ashton / Punches

Hi scrappers, Jackie here with my layout for this month using punches.  I do have a passion for punches especially circle punches, but I decided to step away from ones that I use on a regular basis, and chose another design, so I choose to use some of my heart punches.

As it February and we have just had Valentine's Day, I decided that I would do a ‘love layout’ of my hubby, son and myself.

I’ve used a heart punch, which I punched the heart shapes out of several patterned paper, and layered them together.  

To give them some dimension I only stuck the paper down in the centre, so that the outside edges could be raised off the page.

I added some hand stitching down the centre and left the ends of the thread trailing down.

I also added machine stitching in gold thread on my white cardstock, behind where I placed the hearts, and added some 'xo' wood veneers and puffy hearts in-between the paper hearts.

I had the perfect title from Bramble Fox prespextive, which I added some patterned paper to the back to allow the word to be more readable on top of my photograph.

That all from me for this month, don't forget we would love to see your layouts using punches over on our Facebook page.

Thanks for stopping by..

Happy scrapping ...

Perfect Pout | Kirsteen | Mood Board

Hello, it's Kirsteen here with my layout for this months UK Scrap Addicts theme - mood boards. I've never used a mood board to create a layout before, although I have one or two 'mood boards' on Pinterest so I'm not a stranger to the concept, I was excited to give it a bash. I was even more delighted when I saw the rainbow mood board I was working with. Hello colour!

I kicked off by pulling out some suitable stash. I reached for my most colourful and cheerful collections; Bella Blvd's Color Chaos and Simple Stories Carpe Diem.

Holding on to the colourful happy theme I'd picked from the mood board, I selected these two funny photos of my niece perfecting her duck pout. Along with colour I homed in on the black backgrounds on the mood board and the black stripes of the zebra and included some black on my layout with black Thickers.

I used a 3x4 card cut out from the Bella Blvd collection and chopped it to work with my layout to act as a matt/background for the 'pout' part of my title and to include that lovely splash of pink and the black lettering.

I shuffled some more colourful and black embellishments around until I was happy with how it all looked. Lots of layering, lots of colour and lots to look at. I love this crazy colourful layout and I can't wait to send it to my sister-in-law to add it to my niece's scrapbook.

I hope you've enjoyed my colourful page. Thanks for stopping by.