Happy Days | Daydream Collection | Mandy Melville
Hello everyone!
Mandy here today to share a new layout featuring the amazing Daydream collection! This is still one of my absolute favourite collections to work with! The colours are so pretty, the florals are stunning, and everything just works together so beautifully. It’s one of those collections that’s so easy to work with, and I’m always so happy with the projects that I create with it.
The layout that I’m sharing today features the beautiful Over the Rainbow patterned paper, and a sweet photo of my son Isaac and youngest daughter, Eleanor.
To start this layout off, I decided to fussy cut that beautiful rainbow out of the Over the Rainbow patterned paper. I wanted to add some craft foam behind it so that I could raise it up and give it some nice dimension. I had originally intended to use a sheet of white cardstock for my background, but when I laid the rainbow over the woodgrain patterned paper (which is the reverse side of the Over the Rainbow paper), I immediately fell in love with how that looked. The hoarder in me was a little sad to use up two sheets of this gorgeous patterned paper on the one layout, but it looked so pretty that I couldn’t resist!
I matted my photo with two papers from the A5 Paper Stack and then adhered it over the top right hand side of the rainbow. I embellished around the photo using lots of the beautiful floral die cuts from the Die Cut Ephemera pack, as well as a cute little house. I added a large floral cluster above the photo, and created another smaller embellishment cluster on the bottom right hand corner of the photo.
In order to complete the visual triangle, and to balance out the photo and embellishments in the top right, I created another embellishment cluster in the bottom left hand corner of the page. This one includes more floral die cuts, as well as a banner that says ‘The Good Life’, and a little word sticker from the Accessory Sticker Sheet. I also added a Puffy Gold Glitter Heart from the These Days collection to each of the embellishment clusters. I love the sparkle and texture that this adds!
For my title, I decided on using the ‘Happy Days’ die cuts from the Die Cut Ephemera pack. I wanted to curve the title around the rainbow, so rather than using each word as a single die cut, I fussy cut each letter so that I could adhere the letters individually and curve the words around. I was really happy with how that turned out!
To add some extra detail to the page, I fussy cut a few little butterflies out of the All Aflutter paper in the A5 Paper Stack, and adhered them on top of the rainbow. I also added some white ink splatters around the embellishment clusters, and I doodled a white border around the top and right hand edges of the layout. To finish the page off, I added my typed journaling strips underneath the photo.
Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope that you’ve been inspired by my layout!
Mandy x