September 2023

Family | Heart & Home Collection | Laura Alberts

Hey y’all, Laura Alberts back again with a fun spin on a grid layout. For these four 3×4 inch photos from a camping trip, I puzzled the pictures together with ephemera and cut apart pieces to create a collage in the center of my page. The border around the outside gives the collage a little bit of structure and helps it feel cohesive.

In blank spots that were a little too narrow for additional embellishments, I added a row of chain-stitching with ombre embroidery floss that coordinated with the Heart & Home collection. These sweet puffy heart stickers were the perfect accent for this banner piece!

The floral ephemera pack is always one of my favorite parts of a new collection and these darling flowers had to make an appearance on my layout too! The hand-stitched elements work beautifully with the cross-stitch designs on the cut aparts that I used for titles.

I hope this layout inspires you to try a new design with multiple photos! If you’d like to see how “Family” came together, check out the process video below.

Walking into fall | Heart & Home Layout| Anna Komenda

Hello everyone. It’s Anna here with my newest layout, made with brand new “Heart & Home” collection. I am a big fan of fall projects and this line is just perfect for making one (or two :) ). Autumn is just starting to appear this year and leaves are still green but I had a perfect picture from my last year walk in the forest. Sun was low and it was shining through the leaves and tree trunks creating beautiful halo and rays. It looked so magical, like straight from the fairy tale. I snapped few photos enjoying this little wonder of nature.

I knew I wanted to use many pattern papers in this project making die cut leaves. I chose nine different patterns in brown, red-ish, orange, yello and green colors. Some of them are 12*12 papers like “Bountiful”, “Leaf litter”, “Fall beauty” and “Gather” and some are from A5 Paper Stack.

After cutting leaves  I added some Distress Oxide inks on the white backgroud creating strips of color, that blend together. It’s a sort of fall halfrainbow. With the background done, I could add leaves using color on color technique. I only applied glue in the middle, and run through the rows with sewing machine and white thread. This way I was sure my leaves will stay in place.

My title is a mix of Mini Puffy Alpha Stickers and letters from word “family”, you can find in Ephemera Pack. I used original F, A and L letters and created second L using first one as a stencil.

At this point my layout was already colorful and full of texture so I only added few embellishments. I searched through Ephemera Pack to fing all the fall related elements and placed them color on color, highlighting the stripes. I found mugs, some leaves and few inscriptions. I also reached for 6*12 Accesory Stickers to embellish area around the photo.

Final step was adding tiny, cute Puffy Stickers, also using color on color technique. Creating this page was so much fun and a perfect combination of mixed media products and paper embellishments. My favourite kind of layout.

That is all for today! Thank you so much for spending your precious time with me. See you in October!

XO Anna

Celebrate You | Heart & Home Collection | Michelle Stokes

Hello Scrappy Friends! It’s Michelle back here with some more inspiration to share with you all. I’ve made another layout using the beautiful Heart & Home collection, with yet another bunch of fussy cut florals, perfect for documenting some happy snaps from my Mums recent 70th birthday Celebration.

I had a few photos I wanted to add to this layout so I created a couple of strips in the pic collage app on my phone using the freestyle layout option. I printed them out on a 4×6 size piece of photo paper then trimmed to size. I added both strips to a piece of green print paper from the A5 paper stack and sat them to the side so I could create the floral clusters.

First cluster is up the top right of the layout using pretty florals from both the 12×12 BOUNTIFUL paper, ephemera pieces and the specialty printed vellum. I layered all pieces individually with foam tape for dimension, and glued the tiny flowers on using tacky glue.

I added some accessory stickers to the mix along with mini puffy alphas for a mini title. They really are a cute addition to any layout.

I’ve used more florals from the BOUNTIFUL paper in the larger cluster on the bottom left of the layout with the same mix of ephemera, stickers and vellum to complete the layers. Once I felt this cluster had enough bits n bobs I added the photo strips over the right side using additional foam pieces to prop them up

I created the larger title using GOLD FOIL title words and some handwritten journalling underneath. I haven’t added this simple touch to many of my layouts recently, but when I have its really felt complete.

Lastly I added a sprinkling of gold ink around the layout with a few puffy dots and hearts then called it a day. Here’s a final look at the entire layout below..

 

Well thats all from me today, a short but sweet layout share for you all. I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing another floral frenzy creation of mine.

Thanks so much for stopping by

Until next time, Happy Scrapping!
Michelle x

Celebrate Layout with Layered Hearts | Heart & Home |Niki Rowland

Hi everyone, this is Niki (@nikiclairecreates) here today with a new layout and video. Do you like layers on your scrapbook layouts?  On this layout I have used lots of different patterns from the Heart & Home A5 Paper stack to cut lots of hearts in different sizes. I love doing this as it means I get to use lots of patterns on one page!

I started off by cutting multiple hearts – I did this using metal nesting dies and my Big Shot. I then spent some time layering the hearts together, I also distressed the edges of each one before sticking them together. I arranged the hearts down the right side of my layout, on the edge of a large square of the Fall Beauty patterned paper, pink heart side. Once I was happy with the positioning of the hearts, I stuck them to the pink square and then trimmed around them. I added the pink square and layered hearts to a white piece of card for my background. I then added some machine stitching: through the middle of all the hearts and around the edge of the pink square.

I then added my photo, which I framed using a piece of Die Cut Ephemera and I also added a title using one of the Gold Titles ‘celebrate’ because in the photo we were out for my daughter’s birthday.

I kept the rest of the layout embellishments fairly simple as I didn’t want to overpower the stacked design so I just added a few pieces of Floral Ephemera, a few phrases from the Die Cut Ephemera and a few Puffy Hearts. I finished off with a few splatters of gold paint.

I hope you have enjoyed seeing this layout, have a happy scrappy day! My process video is below if you would like to watch how it came together!

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

Beautiful Family | Heart & Home collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends!

It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new scrapbook layout featuring the gorgeous Heart & Home collection! I don’t know about you but I have loads of special family photos that I have to document. The Heart & Home collection is so perfect to use to document family photos. I have added 3 photos to this layout and although they are small, they get the memories documented. These photos are of my 2 sons with their 2 younger girl cousins who they ADORE.

I absolutely love the ‘B’ side of the Golden Fields paper with the typewriter looking phrases and I knew I wanted to use that piece as the background for my layout. I trimmed this piece down to approximately 11′ x 11′ and then adhered it to the ‘B’ side of the Leaf Litter paper. I then cut out the blue 3′ x 4′ card in the top right corner of the Gather paper. I got out my craft knife and cut out the centre of the frame so I could place a photo behind it. I also took the die-cut frame with the 2 spaces from the ephemera pack and placed small photos behind them.

I took several more pieces out of the ephemera pack that I thought would suit my photos including the tag, the ‘Our Story’ journal card, the floral wreath and the Family title. I started to arrange these on the page, deciding on a rounded horizontal look. For elements that I wanted to stand out and make a statement on the page I adhered using craft foam to add shadows and dimension. I will admit I had some ‘help’ in deciding what to add in the centre – I walked away from my page for a little while, when I came back, my man had been adding bits and pieces to it for me! What a gem! He added the small family die-cut and the wreath in the centre for me. I loved it that much so I just went with it! How do you think he did? Once I had the horizontal design arranged and glued down how I liked it, I started to add other smaller embellishments.

For my title I took one of the gorgeous Gold Foiled die-cut titles for the title pack and adhered this at the top using craft foam. I then took the individual letters that spell ‘Family’ from the ephemera pack and adhered these at the bottom of the design also using craft foam. I also layered a phrase sticker from the Accessory Sticker Sheet over the top of these letters. Under the letters I added an arrow die-cut as well. With the tag, I added some twine and tied it in a bow through the hole in the top, I love adding some sort of texture to my layouts, usually it is ribbon or twine or something like that. I absolutely HAD to add some gorgeous florals from the floral ephemera pack, I mostly tucked these into the top corners at each end of the tag and journal card.

Some of the final touches to my layout are the puffy heart stickers (love these!) some more phrase stickers from the Accessory Sticker Sheet and a few smaller die-cuts from the ephemera pack. I cut out a small piece from the Gather paper and adhered this piece above the Beautiful title. I love tucking things in here and there – as you can probably see! Lastly I stamped the date stamp of when the photos were taken as I always do.

Thanks so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I hope I have inspired you to get creating with your Heart & Home collection! If you haven’t already got this gorgeous collection, you REALLY NEED IT! It’s sooo pretty!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

These Days | Heart and Home | Rachel Lowe

Hello Rachel here and today I sharing another Fall themed layout featuring my daughter using the beautiful Heart and Home collection.

I have used several cut files from the Silhouette Design store, butterflies and a fall wreath. You can see the I have covered the flowers and most of the leaves so I could add the Floral Ephemera and add my own layering where needed.

Once I had adhered the wreath cut file I then added the ‘flying butterflies’. I used the A5 paper pad to cut the butterflies and the larger ones I cut two so I could layer them up with foam tape. I added the heart Puffy Stickers to create the butterfly body.

I used a 6×4 inch landscape photo, I sadly had to convert it to black and white as my daughters top was purple! I added a thin mat and tucked it under some of the wreath so it looked a part of it.  I next added two floral clusters using a mix of the Floral Ephemera and Die Cut pack.  I added a sticker from the Accessory Sticker sheet tucking it slightly under the flowers and leaves.

I used larger blooms to cover the cut file flowers at the top of the wreath and layering the flowers, leaves and sprigs with foam tape. I used phrase sentiments to create sub journalling.

You can find this journal block in the die cut ephemera pack, I will go back and add some handwriting later. I finished this off by adding the super cute pumpkin with flowers die cut and another phrase sentiment sticker. The only 12×12 inch papers I used for this layout was Gather and Leaf Litter.

I really wish my daughter had worn a different colour top so I could have added a colour photo, showing the beauty of autumn leaves and colours which I think would give this layout another layer of colour, warmer I think. Anyway next time I will do better with clothing choices and colours!!!!

Thank you for taking the time to stop by today.

Rachel X

WITH YOU I AM HOME | HEART & HOME COLLECTION | SOPHIE DELORME

Hello friends !

 

I have a new layout to share today created with the lovely Heart & Home collection !

 

 

I based my design on a black and white photo of my daughter Sabrina walking on a bridge this summer. I “continued” the road with white Cardstock and added a yellow border with the “Gather” patterned paper. I hand stitched on the papers with matching thread, and placed everything on the beautiful “Leaf Litter” green paper.

 

 

I cut the page into a 11 inches square and mounted it with adhesive foam on a 12×12 white cardstock on which I scored a few lines, as shown in a close-up here:

 

 

I decorated around the photo along the road with Die Cuts from the Die Cut Ephemera pack and fussy cut flowers and leaves out of patterned papers.

My title is a little banner from the Die Cut Ephemera pack. I drew, cut and stitched little clouds around the photo as the finishing touch, and handwrote my journaling with a brown pen.

Here are more close-ups:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a very different design for me but I am so happy of how it turned out !

 

I hope you like what you see and are being inspired by this gorgeous collection !

 

Have a great crafty day !

 

Sophie xx

Families Are Like Fudge | Heart and Home | Kellie Moore

Hello and welcome back everyone. It’s Kellie here today sharing another page using the new Heart and Home collection.

Today I am documenting some silly family pics …here is my page…

I recently saw a cut file from Kelly Made It on her blog which reminded me of some of the stitched icons found in this collection and I thought it would work perfectly with this range so I chose matching embroidery threads and made them a feature on my page… love how this worked out.

I used the paper called ‘Harvest’ with the stripes to add to the top of my page and another smaller strip to the bottom… I love how this brings in all the colours of this collection. I then bought in a strip of the woodgrain paper called ‘Framed‘ to separate the stripes from the stitching.

I placed my 3 photos vertically down the right side of my page and popped them on the ‘Gather’ paper, distressing the edges to give some dimension. I also added some of the cut aparts also from the ‘Gather’ paper to add to my photos.

Next I worked on my title. I cut out a frame from the ‘Framed’ paper and used the ‘Mini Puffy Alphabet Stickers’ to add my title. I popped the frame up on foam pads to add dimension then added some florals which were cut from the ‘Bountiful’ paper to tuck in behind the frame.

I hope you found some inspiration today and pop back regularly to see what the Design Team has been working on.

Stay Creative!

Kel x

Good Life | Heart & Home Collection | Laura Alberts

Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with a sweet shelf design to scrap these photos of a curious little squirrel that I saw fairly often while wandering the campus in college last year. It was a mascot of sorts for one of the English buildings and I looked for him every time I walked past. For this layout, I used the stunning new Heart & Home collection and went wild with fussy cutting!

Using the diagonal stripe from the cut apart sheet as a base and adding a branding strip on top, I created two shelves for my photos and title to sit on. Starting from this base, I built up clusters of fussy cut florals from both the patterned paper and vellum, as well as sticker sheet and ephemera icons. I even fussy cut the tiny little flowers to use as scattering bits around my clusters.

On the right side, I added a label for journaling and an adorable little house. On the bottom, I used the line for a large title from the gold foiled titles pack. The falling florals and leaves seemed fitting for photos from autumn here in the United States. I adore these sweet little moments with nature!

 

I hope this layout inspires you to take photos of unexpected moments or animals that you encounter and record those too! You never know what these memories will mean to you in the future. To see how “Good Life” came together, check out the process video below:

Together | Heart and Home | Mandy Melville

Hello everyone!

Mandy here with you today and I’m so excited to be sharing my first layout using the stunning new Heart and Home collection! I absolutely adore the soft muted colours and lovely ‘homely’ feel of this collection. For my first layout, I decided to document a recent photo of my hubby and kids taken on Fathers Day.

As this layout is focused on my hubby on Fathers Day, I decided to give it a bit more of a masculine feel by narrowing the colour palette down to the blues, greens and browns in the collection. I chose four of the patterned papers – Harvest, Golden Fields, Leaf Litter and Fall Beauty – and cut each into a large triangle before piecing them together to create my background. I matted my photo with the woodgrain patterned paper from the A5 Paper Stack and adhered it in the middle of the page using craft foam to help it ‘pop’ off the page.

To embellish the layout I created three floral clusters which create a visual triangle and help to draw the viewer’s eye to the photo. The first cluster underneath the photo includes some flowers and sprigs from the Floral Ephemera pack, as well as a label sticker that I added the date to, and a die cut phrase. I also fussy cut an acorn and leaf from the Leaf Litter paper to add to the cluster. Underneath the photo I added a sub-title using the sweet Mini Puffy Alpha Stickers.

Next I created a cluster to the left of the photo. Again I used Floral and Die Cut Ephemera, and the same colours that I used in the first cluster. To create some dimension in the cluster, I tucked some elements underneath the photo and adhered some overlapping the edge of the photo.

I created a third and final cluster at the top of the page using similar pieces that I’d used in the first two clusters. By repeating colours and elements throughout each of the embellishment clusters it helps to make the layout feel cohesive and balanced. I also finished off each cluster with a Puffy heart Sticker. Above the photo I added my title using one of the stunning words from the Gold Titles pack and underneath the title I added a final finishing touch with a tiny word sticker that says ‘family is everything’.

Thanks so much for joining me here on the blog today. I hope that you enjoyed taking a look at my layout featuring the beautiful new Heart and Home collection!

Mandy x

 

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