Lovely You | Daydream Collection | Danni Visser

Hi there lovely Cocoa Vanilla fans! Today I am up with a fussy cutting, mixed media fest using the stunning new Daydream collection and some photos from my beautiful daughter’s first birthday.

When I first saw this collection, I knew I would be whipping out my scissors right away and getting stuck in to fussy cutting those gorgeous patterned papers, and the floral wreath in Daisy Days 12×12 paper immediately caught my eye. I used my precision scissors and a craft knife to cut out the wreath and cut away most of those tiny inside sections to add a feeling of real depth and dimension.

I knew I wanted to fill out the wreath with some extra foliage, so I used my manual die cutting machine and metal dies to cut a bunch of extra leaves from Garden Variety and Up in the Clouds patterned papers.  I also cut a border from the same Garden Variety paper and added it behind some white mixed media cardstock to make the base for my background.

I went ahead with making my mixed media background by laying down some paints in a circular shape where my wreath would go. I used a combination of watered-down acrylic paints and distress oxide sprays in complimentary colours, adding them onto some plastic packaging and smooshing them onto the cardstock. I also added some splatters all the way around with a paintbrush.

Before I adhered my wreath down, I added some adhesive foam to the edges so all the little leaves and flowers would lift up from the page and look extra three dimensional. I then glued my wreath down and filled in any spaces with the leaves I die cut earlier. I tucked my two photos under the right inside edge of the wreath, then added my title “Lovely You” from the die cut titles to the left of my photos in the remaining space. I used three of the sweet little moths from the die cut ephemera around the wreath, popping their wings up with more adhesive foam to bring them to life.

I filled in the gaps on the inside of the wreath and beside my photos with some floral and tab stickers from the accessory stickers, and popped in some tiny word stickers below the title.

Lastly I used a bunch of the beautiful sequins from the new sequins & flowers pack to fill in all the gaps and spaces all the way around my wreath, adding lots of pretty sparkly details. These sequins are one of my favourite items from the new collection, I have used so many I will need to order a new pack very soon!

I hope you are loving this gorgeous new collection as much as I am! You can watch the process video of this layout below. Thank you for joining me today and happy scrapping!

Danni x