Family | Heart & Home collection | Mandy Melville
Hello everyone,
Mandy here today to share another layout featuring the beautiful Heart & Home collection. For this layout, I documented another family photo from our recent trip to Mudgee. This one is of Mum, my son Isaac, and myself picnicking at a vineyard, and I plan to put this page alongside the layout that I shared last month with photos taken on the same day. I love the way the colours in this collection really bring out the colours in the photo!
I started this page by cutting up 6 inch x 1.5 inch strips of patterned papers from the A5 Paper Stack. I then adhered these down the left hand side of a sheet of Golden Fields paper (b side). To finish off the background I punched a border strip from the woodgrain Framed patterned paper, and adhered it down the middle of the page where the paper strips meet the text background.
I matted my photo with the yellow paper from the A5 Paper Stack, and adhered it towards the top of the page, overlapping both the paper strips and the text background. Next I fussy cut a floral cluster out of the Bountiful paper, and tucked that under the bottom right hand corner of the photo. I added a few die cut elements to the cluster including some leaves, a house, and a banner. I adhered some items with foam tape to give the cluster some extra interest and dimension.
To balance out the larger floral cluster, I added two more smaller clusters to the page. One positioned on the top left hand corner of the photo, and the other in the bottom right hand corner of the layout. The positioning of the clusters gives the layout a diagonal flow, drawing the viewer’s eye from the top left, down through the photo and title, to the bottom right. I used more Die Cut Ephemera, as well as some flowers from the Floral Ephemera pack, to create the second and third clusters. You can also see here that I created a subtitle to the left of the photo using the Mini Puffy Alpha Stickers.
For my title, I chose the word ‘Family’ from the Die Cut Ephemera pack. I outlined the letters with a brown pen and adhered them with craft foam to help them to pop off the page.
Thank you so much for joining me here on the blog today. I hope that you enjoyed taking a look at my layout!
Mandy x