Love This | Sunkissed Collection | Melissa Vining

Hi everyone, its Melissa here and I’m back today sharing a new layout I created with the gorgeous Sunkissed Collection.  I used one of the two free exclusive cut files that were available during International Scrapbooking Day called ‘Floral Wreath’.  You can find this cut file in the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Community Group on Facebook.  My photo is of my youngest daughter Ava (aged 4) in the bush at the beach house we stayed at in January on our summer holiday.

I created my layout using the B side of ‘Brightside’ for my background.  Its a beautiful shade of blue and during my Facebook Live scrapbooking session during the weekend of International Scrapbooking Day I nearly used this paper.  I told everyone watching that I would use this paper for another background, hence this layout!!  I added splatters of watered down white acrylic paint before I adhered my cut file.

I predominantly used papers from the A5 Paper Stack to back my cut file, and I focused on solid patterns or small repeating patterns.  I embellished around my photo by adding Floral Ephemera and Puffy Stickers.

I also fussy cut a floral cluster from Growing Wild and used it to embellish the top of the wreath. I even got two of the Wood Epoxy Buttons onto my layout!

I used a phrase from the Die Cut Ephemera pack for my title. It was perfect against the blue background, and I popped it and lots of the flowers up on dimensional adhesive. I wrote my journaling with a silver pen.

I made a process video which you can watch below.

Have an awesome rest of your weekend!

Melissa xx