Picture Perfect Moments | These Days Collection | Melissa Vining

Hi everyone, It’s Melissa here and I’m so excited to be back sharing a new layout that I created with the gorgeous ‘These Days’ collection!  Lately I’ve seen a trend of layouts created with a central cascading of elements.   I decided to create my take on this trend with a photo of my oldest and youngest kids during our latest lockdown in August 2021.

I absolutely love the patterned paper “Neighbourhood”, the side that is white with black drawn flowers.  I knew that I had to use it as my background.

For my paper layers I used a border strip from “The Good Life”, and torn strips of “Home Grown” and “Wall of Fame”.  I machine stitched them to add extra texture.  Next I adhered my photo on some craft foam for dimension.

I added lots of “Clear Stickers” to build mixed media type layers. I love how they are translucent.

I also added “Die Cut Ephemera” for extra embellishment on either sides of the photo, and I used the beautiful banner for my title. Of course I had to add a gold glitter “Puffy Heart”.

I hope you enjoyed my layout created with this gorgeous collection.

Take care

Melissa xx