Love this Kid | Heart & Home Collection | Mandy Melville

Hello everyone!

Mandy here today to share another layout featuring the gorgeous new Heart & Home collection. I absolutely love the beautiful colours in this collection and how versatile it is! For my layout today I chose to document some photos of my son from a day that we spent getting out in nature together.

I started my layout with the striped Harvest paper as my background.  On top of that I layered a piece of the woodgrain Framed paper which gave a neutral area for me to add my photos and title. Down the left hand side of the page I created a border by layering the Fall Beauty and the Leaf Litter papers and finishing it off with a punched honeycomb border.

To give some extra interest to the photos, and to help them stand out from the background, I added some patterned paper layers behind them. I also adhered the photos at a slight angle which gives the layout a more whimsical feel rather than being too structured.

When it was time for embellishing, I couldn’t resist fussy cutting some of the beautiful floral clusters out of the Bountiful patterned paper. I added the first cluster in the top left hand corner of the page, layering some smaller florals from the Die Cut Ephemera pack with it, as well as a small banner sticker to finish it off.

Next I added another floral cluster in the bottom right hand corner of the page. This balances out the first cluster and gives the layout a diagonal flow, drawing the viewer’s eye down through the photos. In this cluster I again used more fussy cut florals, as well as a journaling piece from the die cut ephemera pack.

For my title, I took inspiration from the ‘Family’ die cut pieces in the ephemera pack. I love that each letter is a different colour, and decided to create a similar style title using some metal alphabet dies from my stash. I cut each letter out of a patterned papers from the A5 Paper Stack and combined it with Mini Puffy Alpha Stickers. The title ‘Love this Kid’ seemed like the perfect sentiment for these photos!

I finished the layout off with a couple more stickers and the ‘Together is Better’ piece that I fussy cut out of the Gather patterned paper.

Thanks so much for joining me here on the blog today. I hope that you enjoyed taking a look at my layout and found some inspiration!

Mandy x