Sunshine Fun | Sunkissed Collection | Melissa Vining

Hi everyone, its Melissa here and I’m so happy to be back with you again, this time with my first creation with the stunning new ‘Sunkissed’ collection!!  We also have a sparkle and shine theme going on right now and I was thrilled to receive this assignment.  I decided to scrap a body boarding photo of myself and my two oldest kids at Riverton Rocks Beach (located at the bottom of the South Island of New Zealand).

I just had to use the beautiful rainbow paper ‘Bright Side’! I cut the rainbow apart, added glittery paste to each of the arcs, stitched through them in corresponding coloured threads, and then popped them up with craft foam.  I adhered them onto white cardstock and I love how subtly sparkly they are!

I used tissue paper from my stash to make an uneven whimsical mat for my photo.  This also helps provide separation from the saturated colours of the rainbow to the more subtle ocean tones of my photo.

I used lots of flowers and leaves from the ‘Floral Ephemera’ to create clusters above and below my photo. I bent up the edges of the petals and leaves, and added small pop dots for dimension.  I embellished the photo with a phrase sticker from the ‘Accessory Stickers’ and a starfish ‘Puffy Sticker’.    I love the contrast between the rainbow and my photo!

I cut apart one of the Pocket Cards and used part of a card to write my journalling.

I just had to create my title from the amazing gold glittery ‘Foam Title Stickers’ – so perfect for this assignment!!

I made a process video which you can watch below.

Have a great weekend!

Melissa xx