Love | Daydream collection | Mandy Melville

Hello everyone!

Mandy here with you today, and I have a layout to share for our sketch theme this month. To make it even more fun, it’s Throwback Thursday! It’s probably no surprise that I decided to pull out the Daydream collection for this layout. It’s definitely one of my all time favourite collections, and it worked perfectly with this photo of my hubby and eldest daughter that I wanted to scrapbook! For my sketch inspiration, I decided on using one from Creative Memories…

I love working with sketches when I’m creating a layout. I find that they’re great for giving me a jumping off point and they provide inspiration for different page designs that I wouldn’t necessarily come up with on my own. I chose this sketch as I love the patchwork style design in the background, as well as the large circular element in the middle of the page. After that, I deviated from the sketch a bit as I only had one photo, and therefore didn’t create the collage of photos inside the circle, but the general design of the page is there.

I started my layout off by selecting some patterned papers from the 6×8 Inch Paper Stack to create my background. I cut each piece at 4.8cm x 14.4cm, and then pieced them together on my white cardstock background, making sure to balance out the patterns and colours as I went. I then cut a circle out of white cardstock, which was 8 1/2 inches in diameter, and I cut a slightly larger circle out of the peach All Aflutter patterned paper to matt the white cardstock circle onto. I also added some machine stitching around the circle to give the page some additional texture. My photo was matted on another paper from the 6×8 Inch Paper Stack, and was then adhered inside the circle.

Next I created an embellishment cluster on the top right hand corner of the photo, using a floral cluster that I fussy cut out of the beautiful Garden Variety patterned paper, as well as a rainbow Sticker. I also added my title here using one of the words from the Die Cut Titles pack.

To balance out the first embellishment cluster, I added another fussy cut floral cluster on the bottom left hand corner of the photo. You’ll notice that I chose florals with a curved design so that they followed the shape of the circle. I adhered this floral cluster with foam tape to add some nice dimension to the page.

To finish the layout off I added a couple of butterflies, one from the Die Cut Ephemera pack and the other fussy cut from one of the 6×8 papers. I also sprinkled around some sequins as well as a few more tiny fussy cut flowers.

I had so much fun creating this layout and I love the unique design that the sketch inspired!

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog to take a look at my page!

Mandy x