Shine on | Daydream Layout | Anna Komenda
Hello Cocoa Vanilla fans. It’s Anna here with my newest page. As I am living on the other side of the world (comparing to Australia), I am still waiting for my parcel with brand new “Sunkissed” collection to arrive. In the mean time I still have a chance to play with pretty “Daydream” and there are few ideas I wanted to try with it. Inspiration for this page came to me from well… box of dog food. You never know the mysterious ways mojo travels :D
It had this rosette, that best dogs on the show get, on the packaging and I thought it would be fun to make big rosette on the page too. One thing led to another and I was already scoring few pieces of “Stepping stones” paper, combining then in one larger piece. I also used a border punch to add some decorative edge. When rosette was finished I started looking for a good background paper. I was going to reach for just white cardstock to make rosette shine but, by the lucky coincidence, it turned out it matches perfectly the paper with wreath called “Daisy days“. You can still see pieces of flowers and leaves peeking from behind.
Making the rosette took me a while so I knew I don’t want to cover it too much. I fussy cut some flower clusters from “Garden variety” paper and arranged them under my photo. I added few elements from the sticker sheet, like rainbow, tab and a title. I also cut out some butterflies from “Aflutter” paper. I know, I know… I am a fussy cutting freak :D
To make sure the rosette will stay glued to the paper, I used hot glue gun. It’s the best solution for this kind of elements, especially with rosette as it wants to bounce back to the tube shape. I also used hot glue to glue down flowers and other elements on the top of the rosette too. This way I am sure layout will be in good condition for years of storing it vertically.
This time I haven’t used any ephemera pieces (as I am running low on them already) and I tried to squeeze out as much as I can from the papers themselves. It always makes me so happy and relaxing to spend my time with scissors, watch YouTube and just cut. I like to do it in advance so when the mojo strikes, I am ready with all the elements.
That is all for today. I hope my next project will be made with super colorful and pretty “Sunkissed” line. I can’t wait to play with it. See you in two weeks <3
Anna