Love This | Storyteller Collection | Melissa Vining

Hello everyone, it’s Melissa here and I’m so happy to be back with another layout that I created with the beautiful Storyteller collection.  I just adore the navy blue tones in this collection and really wanted to feature them.  I found this unusual cut file by Just Nick Studio that enabled me to feature a large piece of the patterned paper and decided to use Spring Fling instead of my usual white cardstock.

I decided to scrapbook a recent photo of our daughter Brielle with the first broccoli that I harvested from our vegetable garden.  I backed the cut file predominantly with papers from the A5 Paper Stack. I machine stitched around the circle three times with white thread, and I love the texture that it adds!

For my title I used the Foam Title Stickers.  “Love This” was perfect for this sweet photo! I added splatters in gold shimmer to add something extra to my page.  I did this before I added the embellishments.

I embellished with lots of Die Cut Ephemera, and I especially loved adding the tag with twine hanging from one of the cut file leaves. I distressed the edges of lots of the ephemera pieces, I guess this is one of my signature design features.

I wrote my journaling on a die cut ephemera ticket.  I also added a fussy cut floral that was left over from a pervious project. It always feels so satisfying to use up scraps! Of course I was so happy to get a couple of Wood Buttons onto my page too!

I hope I inspired you to cut your cut files from patterned paper!

Have a great rest of your week!

Melissa xx