Bloom | These Days Collection | Danni Visser

Hi Cocoa Vanilla Studio friends! Danni here with a layout inspired by this month’s gorgeous moodboard. I was incredibly inspired by all the bright rich colours and the quote, so I decided to pull out my watercolours and have some painty fun.

When I first received the new ‘These Days’ collection and saw the sketchy florals in Neighbourhood 12×12 patterned paper, I thought it was perfect for making a customized painted background. I pulled some of the beautiful bright colours from the moodboard and used my watercolour paints to fill in the outline of some of the leaves and flowers.

I wanted that soft hand painted watercolour effect, so I kept the painting quite messy and imperfect. I also left some of the outlines unpainted to avoid the background looking too clustered and added some delicate splatters.

I chose a single photo of a beautiful kookaburra my husband took several years ago and matted it with the woodgrain paper from the A5 paper stack. Using the floral images from the moodboard, I chose some floral cluster cutfiles from my stash and backed them with Daybreak 12×12 patterned paper and one of the 3×4 pocket cards. I tucked the clusters around opposite corners of my photo.

To fill out the floral clusters I tucked some of the floral ephemera in amongst them, layering them to create an illusion of depth and dimension. I added a sticker from the accessory stickers as a small title, layering it with a label below my photo. I added in some small leaves and flowers from the floral ephemera to tie this in with the rest of the ephemera clusters.

To finish everything off I added three tiny butterflies that I fussy cut from the A5 paper stack butterfly paper, bending them in the middle to make them three dimensional. I love how the hand painted background turned out! This is such a great way to add colour and tailor a paper to exactly what you are going for. I hope you enjoy trying this out too. Happy scrapping!

Danni x