Chill Out | Sunkissed Collection | Danni Visser

Hi scrappy friends! Danni here sharing a fun rainbow layout featuring lots of hand stitching texture and summery goodness. I am really just starting to dip my toes into the new Sunkissed collection and I am having so much fun with it! Like several of my fellow design team members and many of you amazing Cocoa Vanilla Studio community members, I was instantly inspired by the gorgeous rainbow on Bright Side 12×12 patterned paper.

My first step was carefully fussy cutting all the rainbow stripes from the paper. I knew I wanted to do a bunch of hand stitching, and in hindsight the stitching would have been much easier if I had stitched first THEN fussy cut, but hindsight is 20-20 and at least you can learn from my mistakes!

Next I chose embroidery floss in colours to match each of the stripes and pierced stitching holes in my paper with an awl to prepare for stitching. I began by doing a chain stitch in the red colour, loved how it looked but I wanted more variety and texture so I decided to switch it up and add a different stitch to each colour. I really love this result! For reference the stitches from top to bottom are chain-link, cross, diagonal, zig zag, blanket and chevron. This did take some time over several days, but I get comfy in front of the television and stitch away while I watch shows with my family and the time flies by.

I decided to use Just Chillin’ 12×12 patterned paper for my background because I have been dying to use that gorgeous woodgrain. I knew the colours would pop on the neutral base and I love the more masculine, natural element it brings in, especially as my photo is of my two boys. I jazzed up my background by splattering white and gold ink, then glued down my rainbow stripes.

I used the blue daisy pattern from A5 paper stack to create a simple photo mat and added my photo to the left of the layout; as the rainbow is slightly offset to the right, bringing weight to the left helps to balance the layout. I added some of the stunning glittery foam title stickers under the rainbow, slightly overlapping my photo.

I wanted to cover as little of the stitching as possible, so when embellishing I chose the floral ephemera and cut several of them in half before tucking them underneath the edges of the rainbow stripes. The smaller florals I popped up on foam before adding to the clusters. I also added one of the smallest wood epoxy buttons to each of the clusters; they are just too sweet!

The finishing touch was to add a scattering of hearts from the foam title stickers and die cut ephemera, as well as some of the adorable cross hatch patterns from the clear stickers randomly scattered about.

I hope you enjoyed this layout! There is a process video linked below if you would like to watch it come together. Thank you for joining me and happy scrapping!

Danni x