Fun in the Sun | Sunkissed Collection | Mandy Melville

Hey friends!

Mandy here with you today to share a new layout featuring the beautiful Sunkissed collection. I’m loving using this collection to scrapbook all of our holidays snaps! With overseas travel being off the cards at the moment, we decided last year to spend the money that we’d put aside for an overseas trip on a caravan instead. It’s been so nice to be able to getaway on little trips a lot more often now, and of course you know what that means… LOTS of holiday photos to scrapbook! The photos that I’m documenting today were from our trip at Easter time. My youngest just loved spending time at the beach jumping in the waves, and as always the bright colours and gorgeous florals from the Sunkissed collection were perfect for this scrapbooking these photos!

I started my layout off by trimming down my white cardstock background and mounting it on the yellow floral Fun in the Sun patterned paper. I then trimmed the gorgeous woodgrain Just Chillin paper down to 10 inches square, and adhered it to the middle of the page. I added a doodled white border around the woodgrain paper, and I also added some machine stitching around the outside of it to give the layout some extra detail and texture.

I printed my two photos at about 3 1/2 inches square and matted them with papers from the A5 Paper Stack.

I adhered the top photo using craft foam for added dimension, and I adhered a little banner from the Die Cut Ephemera pack on the top right hand corner. I also tucked a colourful bunting die cut under the top left hand corner of the photo. I love the way all of the bright and colourful embellishments pop against the woodgrain background!

I wanted to create a rough grid style design on this page using elements of different shapes and sizes. So once I’d placed my photos on the layout, I decided to cut a couple of the 3×4 inch cards out of the Fun in the Sun patterned paper. I used the one with the blue border as a journaling spot and adhered it in the top right hand corner of the grid. I added my typed journaling to the card, as well as the ‘Happy Days’ die cut banner across the top.

Underneath the journaling card, I added the #Vacation banner which I also cut out of the Fun in the Sun patterned paper. I made another banner out of one of the papers from the A5 Paper Stack to layer underneath the blue one, and then I fussy cut a bunch of florals from the beautiful Growing Wild patterned paper to tuck around the banners.

For the final spot in the grid, I used the ‘Fun in the Sun’ card, which made the perfect title for my layout! This was also cut out of the Fun in the Sun  patterned paper. Again I tucked lots of fussy cut florals around the card, as well as one or two from the Floral Ephemera pack. I adhered some with foam tape for added dimension and interest.

I finished the layout off by adding a few of the cute little flowers from the Puffy Sticker pack.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. I hope that you enjoyed taking a look at my layout! I’ll be back later in the month to share some more inspiration with you.

Mandy x