Little Moments of Joy | These Days Collection | Mandy Melville

Hello everyone!

Mandy here with you today to share a layout featuring the beautiful new These Days collection. I’m absolutely loving creating with the soft colour palettes and pretty florals in this collection! I knew that it would be perfect for documenting this beautiful photo of my eldest daughter Abi, taken when we went out for brekky together on the morning of her Year 10 formal.

I started my layout off by trimming down a sheet of white cardstock to approximately 11.5 inches square and matting it on the reverse side of the Family Ties patterned paper. Next I adhered a 9 inch square piece of the yellow gingham Home Grown paper to the middle of the page. I added machine stitching around both the white cardstock and the patterned paper to give the page some additional texture. I then adhered a 4 inch wide strip of the Pretty Posies patterned paper, slightly off centre, towards the left hand side of the page. I used a border punch along with the orange Wall of Fame paper to create a pretty scalloped border to tuck under each side of the Pretty Posies paper.

I matted my photo with the wood grain side of the Pretty Posies patterned paper and adhered it overlapping the right hand side of the patterned paper strip. I then added the little ‘Hello’ banner from the Accessory Sticker sheet on the top left hand corner of the photo.

There are so many gorgeous embellishments to choose from in this collection! To create the embellishment cluster to the right of the photo, I started with one of the Double Sided 3″ x 4″ cards, and I fussy cut the ‘Little Moments of Joy’ banner piece out of it to use as both an embellishment as well as the title for my layout. I then chose an assortment of flowers and leaves from the Floral Ephemera pack to build on the cluster. I used foam tape to adhere some embellishments to give the cluster lots of dimension and interest. I also added a lovely little Wood Epoxy Button to the centre of one of the flowers.

To balance out the main embellishment cluster on the right hand side of the page, I created a smaller one in the top left hand corner. I repeated similar elements in this cluster that I’d used in the first one to keep it looking nicely balanced and cohesive. Those sweet little butterflies were fussy cut out of one of the papers in the A5 Paper Stack. I also tucked the die cut word ‘Happy’ into this cluster.

I finished my layout off with a few of the lovely Puffy Stickers, as well as some tiny little flowers that I fussy cut out of the Home Grown patterned paper.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today! I hope that you found some inspiration from my layout.

Mandy x