Welcome to Paradise | Sunkissed Collection | Raquel Bowman
Hey everyone – it’s Raquel here today sharing my first layout featuring the new and beautiful ‘Sunkissed’ collection. I know I say it every time that a new collection is released – but “wow”, Zoe really knocked this one out of the park. The bright patterns, the variety of embellishments and the cute icons and phrases has got me completely in love!
Here is the layout that I created:
The subject of this layout is a photo I took on our summer holidays that we spent together as a family in a coastal town a few hours from our house. Both the kids, hubby and I look forward to this special trip together each and every year. Our favourite time is when we get to visit the beach – a walking distance from where we stay. The kids have an absolute ball – the Mr and I get so much joy from seeing their happy faces.
Along with the photo of course, one of the main features of the layout is the sun in the background. The sun was created using a maths compass to draw the circular semi circle design and fussy cut out. I then free hand cut out the triangles to be placed around it as the suns rays. I love how it turned out! The yellow patterned paper was an exciting find in the small paper pad. I love that the paper pad has differing designs than the 12×12 papers.
To embellish the page I have used a small selection of the floral ephemera to go in either side of the photo. I used a variety of dimensional adhesives to add depth and dimension to those floral clusters. Are you as happy as I am that CVS has released a floral ephemera pack?!? Sooo exciting!
I loved the ‘welcome to paradise’ ephemera piece and I just knew it was the perfect title for this photo of our favourite place – ‘our paradise’. To add some more detail to that piece I added a yellow fishtail banner to below the label from the remaining yellow paper in the paper pad. I also added with foam adhesive the phrase sticker ‘nothing but sunshine and blue skies’ as a sub-title.
as always – this layout features journaling. I love documenting my thoughts in simple form when journaling on my pages. As I am not a lover of my handwriting – I prefer the method of typewritten journaling to get our stories onto paper.
I hope this layout has inspired you today. If you have not yet gotten your hands on this stunning collection I assure you should do You won’t regret it!
Take care,
Raquel