Grade Five | No Limits Collection | Michelle Stokes

Hey Everyone! It’s Michelle back here today with a brand new layout share using the awesome NEW collection No Limits.  Loving the switch up on colour palette and patterns for this collection, especially those stars. Another fantastic collection thats brilliant for scrapping all things kid related, with a more masculine feel, but still just as good for scrapping the not so girly little ladies in our lives.

I jumped straight into some messy creating for this layout, blue inks watered down and smooshed onto some white cardstock to give a watercolour effect. I already had a rough idea of layout design from something I had previously created, so I added the splotches into areas where I thought they would peek out through the layers. And yes, its another scraplift of myself haha. I cant help it, it’s so much fun to recreate past layouts. You should absolutely try it when you’re stuck for inspiration!

The photos I chose to use are from this years first day of school, hard to believe Leila is now such a big kid in Grade Five. Luigi also made an appearance, like he does most days when she’s off to school.

The layout is full of circular elements both hand cut and ephemera/ sticker pieces plus a tonne of stars. I even went to the trouble of editing the photos into circles before printing them out in black and white. I hand cut around the edge of each photo and then adhered them to some of the awesome blue “Stardust” pattern paper from the A5 paper stack.

I played around with different combinations of pattern papers from the A5 paper stack to create the 3 main clusters on the page. I kept it pretty neutral to compliment rather than compete against each other . This helped when it was time to add all the extra pops of colour with fussy cut stars and ephemera pieces. I used a couple border punches to add the other pops of pattern paper to break up all the blue, white and neutral colours.

I added journalling to the main photo cluster using some notepad paper I had on hand, it was the perfect blue lined paper that co-ordinated so well with the colours of the stars. I cut this in a circular shape like the pattern papers using the plastic ring from inside a roll of foam tape. It was the perfect size for tracing out.

At the bottom of the layout I added a bunch of ephemera pieces, more fussy cut stars from the Nebula paper and some pretty cool word stickers from the accessory sticker sheet. Then there was just enough room to squeeze in a quick white alpha sticker title to finish it all off..

Heres a closer look below at all the layers I created with all those circles and stars.

Well friends, thats all from me today. Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing my first creation with our BRAND new Collection – No Limits. I cant wait to jump back into the box and get creating with it again soon.

Until Next time, Happy Scrapping
Michelle x