Cool Kid | No Limits collection | Mandy Melville

Hello everyone!

Mandy here today to share a new layout featuring the AMAZING new No Limits collection! One of the things that I love about this collection is it’s versatility for scrapbooking boys of all ages. I’ve already used it to document a photo of my hubby, and photos of my teenage son, so for today’s layout I decided to pull out some photos of when my son was just one year old! I hadn’t yet documented these photos and I knew that they would work perfectly with this collection!

I wanted this layout to feature lots of the gorgeous colours and patterns from the collection, so I decided to cut up strips of patterned paper and layer them onto my background. I used a combination of papers from the A5 Paper Stack, as well as the Universal, Spark, and Latitude 12 x12 papers. I used a border punch on the yellow Latitude paper and tucked that into the layers for some extra interest. Once I had the strips of paper adhered to my white cardstock background, I took the layout to my sewing machine and added some machine stitching through some of the strips. I then trimmed the background down to 11 1/2 inches and matted it on the yellow Latitude paper.

Once I had my background done, I added my two photos at the top of the page, above the patterned paper strips. I matted them with papers from the A5 Paper Stack and then adhered them with craft foam for added dimension.

To the left of the photos I created a cluster of embellishments using star die cuts, a little banner, and a chipboard arrow. To add interest to the cluster I tucked the larger star underneath the photo, and adhered the smaller one on top. The chipboard embellishment helps to add dimension to the cluster.

I added a second cluster on the right hand side of the page, and included similar elements such as a die cut star, a chipboard banner, and a little phrase sticker. Repeating elements like this in your embellishment clusters helps the page to feel balanced and cohesive.

I added my title at the bottom of the page using the Die Cut Titles from the collection. I used the words ‘Cool Kid’ as my title, which I think worked perfectly for this page! It not only describes my son’s ‘cool’ personality, but also references the fact that he ‘cooling’ off in the kiddie pool. I adhered the title using foam tape to help it to really pop off the page.

I finished my layout off by sprinkling around some little circles (these were the negative punch outs from the border punch that I’d already used on this page), as well as a few puffy stickers, to look like splashes of water on the page.

Thanks so much for joining me here on the blog today! I hope that you’ve found some inspiration from my layout. I look forward to sharing again later in the month.

Mandy x