Hi everyone! I’m delighted to be guest designing for Cocoa Vanilla Studio today!
I will be sharing four projects during June and July, and today I have my first layout to share with you, using the Happy Days collection. I cannot tell you how much I love this collection, it is so bright, happy and fun! I absolutely fell in love with the colourful stripes on the Sunshine Lollipops paper and decided to focus on that for this layout.
I decided to cut the stripes into their colour groups and make rosettes in a variety of colours. I really enjoy making rosettes and love how they look and really went for it on this layout! I cut out two wide pieces (four stripes wide), several smaller stripes (two stripes wide) and one teeny stripe (one stripe wide). I scored them every quarter-inch and concertina folded them. To make the rosettes themselves I glue the two ends together to make a cylinder, then press the cylinders down in the middle and glue a punched paper circle on top to hold them in place. I did this for all the smaller rosettes, but for the two wide ones the strips needed to be longer to make full circles, so instead I just made semi-circles. These were perfect for the edges of my layout!
I then arranged the rosettes across a white cardstock
background, but felt they needed something more, so I added some ink in
coordinating colours under each rosette. I also added splatters in the same
colours. This creates a ‘glow’ behind each rosette and make them pop off the page
even more! I then glued the rosettes in place onto the background, using hot
glue.
I cut out the subjects of my photos and added them to each of the large rosettes. I also fussy cut several words from the Definitive paper and added these to all the smaller rosettes – I love these words so much, the font is awesome and the words are perfect for my photos!
I then added Floral Ephemera colour-on-colour, tucked in
around the photos and rosettes. I raised some on foam pads for added dimension.
I also added a few bits from the Die Cut Ephemera pack including two very cute
pinwheels, several hearts and a couple of phrase banners.
I handwrote my journaling in black ink and underlined it to make it stand out more. I loved the look of the black against the colourful rosettes so decided to add splatters of black paint…a bit of a risky move but I LOVE how it turned out! I finished off by adding a few of the mini heart Puffy Stickers in the coordinating coloured areas.
Thank you SO much for joining me today, I really hope that
you have enjoyed reading about my layout. I have also created a process video
so that you can watch it all come together, it can be viewed below.
Once again thank you so much for joining me, and thank you
so much to Cocoa Vanilla Studio for inviting me to guest design!
Happy scrapping and see you again soon
Niki xx
@nikiclairecreates
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