Summer Days | Sunkissed Collection | Melissa Vining

Hello everyone!! It’s Melissa here and I’m so happy to be back sharing my latest layout created with the gorgeous Sunkissed Collection.  And yes it’s another beach holiday layout for my Riverton album!  I was inspired by the patterned paper called Good Vibrations, specially the B side that has all of the paint stripes in rainbow colours.  I knew that I wanted to cut the stripes apart, and then paper piece them back together.   I ended up unintentionally creating a sunburst!

The photo is myself with Ava in the background.  I edited it to back and white so it wouldn’t compete with the business of my layout.  To start with I cut all of the stripes off the white background, and then cut them evenly apart.  I placed all of the stripes together in each of the respective colours, and then created a circle in the centre of my page.  The way in which I placed the stripes is difficult to explain, but you can see my process in my video linked at the end of my post. I machine stitched the central circle in white thread, going around messily three times, but unfortunately I covered all of this with embellishments!

I curled the edges of each of the paper stripes, and then used small pop dots to provide dimension.  At this point I wasn’t sure what to make of my layout, but the addition of ink splatters in matching colours definitely helped!

I placed my photo on craft foam to pop it up, and then added the Summer Days Accessory Sticker which became my title.  I embellished around my photo and the sticker with Die Cut Ephemera, Floral Ephemera and two Wood Epoxy Buttons.

I ended up loving how this layout turned out!! The ink splatters and embellishments definitely helped to tie everything together!

I made a process video which you can watch below.

I hope I inspired you to use your patterned paper in a creative and different way!

Have a wonderful rest of your weekend!

Melissa xx