My Story | Storyteller Collection | Danni Visser

Hi Cocoa Vanilla fans! Danni here with a layout featuring the incredible Storyteller Collection. This layout is all about me, something that many scrappers struggle with, myself included.  This very recent photo is of myself enjoying a glass of champagne while celebrating my acceptance to medical school! This was a huge achieement for me and something I felt was important to document right away. You’ll notice there’s no journalling included; I’m going to include that in a separate layout because it is a significant story to tell. This makes Storyteller the perfect collection to document this memory.

To begin this layout I took two A4 sheets of white cardstock (this is a standard Australian paper size, somewhere in between 8.5×11″ and 9×12″) and tore one in half vertically down the centre. I laid one torn half on top of the intact sheet, then took hybrid inks in two  different shades of pink and created a messy watercolour effect coming out from underneath the torn paper, using a combination of the packaging technique, paintbrush and splatters.

I added some dimensional foam under my photo, then added some layers of paper from the A5 paper stack. Adding foam between the photo and the matting paper gives a different look and creates multiple layers for tucking embellishments. I placed my photo on top of the overlapping section of cardstock, then sorted through the floral ephemera to find various sized flowers in yellows and pinks. I clustered these around the edge of my photo, tucking some in underneath the torn edge of the cardstock, some in between the layers of my photo matting.

I tucked in a butterfly and a camera piece from the chipboard stickers, adding a die cut ephemera button over the camera lens to add a touch of whimsy. I also tucked an epoxy wood button and a die cut ephemera heart among the flowers, popping the heart up on foam squares. I also sprinkled around some puffy sticker hearts and dots around the edges of the flowers for some tiny details.

I kept the title simple, using a large title piece from the chipboard stickers as the main focus. I added some alphas from my stash and included some tiny words from the accessory stickers as a subtitle.

As a final touch I included a dashed border using a black fineliner pen, keeping this on the uppermost torn piece of cardstock. This was to emphasise the difference between the soft mixed media side on the right and the clean white side on the left.

I really hope you enoyed joining me today for this layout. I have loved every minute spent creating with these wonderful products, and I hope you find as much joy in them as I have. Happy scrapping everyone.

Danni x