Leila the Magical | Happy Days Collection | Michelle Stokes
Hey Hey! IT’s Michelle here today with a new layout share featuring our AMAZING new collection – Happy Days. I am absolutely LOVING this collection and all its assortment of rainbow goodness, which helps when todays theme is to share my take on using 1 paper – 3 different ways. The paper in question – Sunshine Lollipops. SO much fun to create, lets take a look…
This layout was so much fun to create using this bright happy paper Sunshine Lollipops. I used both sides of the paper to create the rainbow burst edges of the heart, fussy cut rainbows for the embellishments and hand cut letters for Leila’s name using off cuts from the starburst ends.
Here’s a closer look at the gorgeous paper, its oh so pretty!
Theres a lot of colour on this page, so I made sure to balance it out with a lot of white space, and not additional pattern papers
To create the rainbow heart burst I first cut a large heart design on a piece of white cardstock to the right of centre so it would overlap the right edge of the layout. I then added machine stitching around the edge and adhered it in place using foam in only the very centre of the heart. I needed to be able to tuck the strips under this before adhering it completely.
Next I took an entire piece of the Sunshine Lollipops paper and scored lines in the middle of each coloured strip using the scoring blade of my trimmer, then I went along and cut each strip of colour out, then cut each strip in half (6 inches pieces) so that they were easier to manage. I folded each coloured strip along the score line for a little dimension and slightly distressed some of the edges before adhering under the giant white heart in rainbow order.
Once I had all the pieces spaced out evenly I adhered them 1 by 1 using roller adhesive tape, layering in different directions as I went. I trimmed each piece down, and flagged some of the ends for a little added detail.
Next up I sorted out the photos, adhered straight to the white heart without a layered paper stack to distract from the rest of the layout. A cute little moment of ‘Leila the Magical’ riding her trike and making her pinwheel spin
I colour co-ordinated all the embellishments around the layout using a perfect mix of fussy cut flowers from the Lush Blooms paper, some ephemera pieces, stickers and cute little rainbows, mini hearts and stars from the Sunshine Lollipops paper.
Love a good assortment of rainbow florals
I added the LOVE it piece from the Feel Good cut apart paper, along with the date tag
To create the magical title I fussy cut letters of Leila’s name from the left over Sunshine Lollipops coloured strips, added the word Magical cut from the Definitive paper, added some handwriting and cute little Puffy Alpha Stickers. So cute!
Here’s a final look at the entire layout.. What do you think ? I quite enjoy the fun heart burst effect those rainbow strips created.
Well friends thats all from me today, thank you so much for stopping by. Be sure to share with us in the Facebook Community group if you play along with this same theme, and create something magical with 1 paper – 3 ways.
Until next time, Happy Scrapping!
Michelle x