Picture Perfect Moments | These Days | Kylie Kingham.

Hello Cocoa Vanilla fans! It’s Kylie here with you today and I am super excited to share my very first layout to be created with the new ‘These Days’ collection. This new range has a really pretty ‘Cottage core’  or ‘Homely’ vibe to it with a stunning pastel colour palette. I didn’t have a plan so to speak before starting my page of how I wanted my completed layout to look. All I knew is I wanted to have a really soft and florally theme to it.

Next to florals, I have a huge thing for gingham prints so I immediately went to the ‘Home Grown’ paper to work into my background. I trimmed a square of it down to 9″x9″ and adhered it to the lower right corner of the ‘Wall Of Fame’ paper. Using a lace edged craft punch from my supply stash, I added two strips of decorative edges surrounding the gingham square, using white cardstock. For contrast I added two 1″ strips of ‘Pretty Posies’ in an upside down ‘L’ shape.

I cut down both of my photos to 3.75″x3.75″ and backed them with 4″x 4″ pieces of the woodgrain side of the ‘Pretty Posies’ paper. Once in place I was able to begin layering various embellishments under and around both of them. The ‘Picture Perfect Moments’ die cut was adhered over both photos using foam adhesive squares, to give some added height and dimension.

Using the floral die cut pack, I added two clusters of blooms at opposite corners of my layout, Again using foam adhesive squares for the dimension. I really loved the fabric heart embellishments in this range…..Hello gold and sparkly cuteness! To finish my page I couldn’t resist adding three hearts surrounding my photos.

‘These Days’ is yet another beautiful collection by Zoe. I’m sure you will all love it as much as I do! Thanks for stopping by the blog today and seeing my layout. Until next time,

Kylie.