I love how your eyes sparkle | Di Willcox | Sparkle

Good morning Scrap Addicts! Di here today with my first layout as a UKSA creative team member, how exciting!!

'Sparkle' is this month's theme and as it so happens, I had the exact word in a puffy sticker set from the PinkFresh Studio 'Joyful Day' collection. Perfect!

I have lots of photos of my daughter (who's now 24) as a toddler but I struggle to scrap them as they have some distraction in the background that I'm not happy with or the colours/ patterns don't go with the modern papers. After scrolling through Pinterest for ideas I saw a few grid style layouts that use several photos cut down to the main focus point, so I chose a few of Molly, cut them down to 4 x 2 inches and arranged them on the page with papers from the a kit that featured papers from PinkFresh Studio and Pretty Little Studio. I also fussy cut some of the mandala style flowers from one paper and punched some chevrons out of another to create embellishments. 

 After I'd stuck the photos and papers down it seemed a bit flat to me so I doodled lines between to create more of a grid and then I got the 'pop' I wanted to achieve!

I added the title, embellishments and a few sequins (well it is sparkle month!) to finish the layout off.

I can't wait to see what you all come up with for 'Sparkle', I'll be looking out for lots of shiny layouts in the UK Scrap Addicts group on Facebook ;)

Di x

Ariel ... / Jackie Ashton / No Cardstock

Hi UK scrapper, Jackie here with my layout this month using no cardstock background.

I’ve used the lovely new collection from Shimelle - Head in the Clouds and used one of my many disney photographs.

I wanted the background to be nice and bright to represent the brightness of the parade and remind me of the sunny and bright day it was, so I choose the yellow ledger as my background.

Adding a strip of patterned paper, which had mermaid on down the left hand side and add a punched border, down one edge of the strip of paper.

I added a simple layer of patterned papers behind the photograph and added some simple clusters around the page.

Don’t forget to share your layouts that you have done using this month’s prompt - no cardstock, we would love to see them over on our Facebook page.

Bye for now, happy scrapping