Sweet Puppy Face | Storyteller Collection | Michelle Stokes

Hey Hey Scrappy friends! It’s Michelle here today with a new layout share featuring the beautiful Storyteller collection, documenting a sweet little furry face and a peek at the human child. I dipped into my stash of CUT to YOU cutfiles and went with a rainbow theme to bring this all together.

Leila always greets Daisy with the saying “Sweet Puppy Face” and I would absolutely agree, especially when she’s looking as scruffy as she does right now. I snapped this sweet pic of the two of them a few hours before creating the layout, when we were all snuggling on the couch after breakfast.

It’s been a little while since I shared something using a cutfile so I thought I’d go big with this one. Theres even a splattering of inks in multiple colours to compliment the heart, which may or may not have taken me multiple tries to get it right after a few failed attempts at a more messier background.

Let’s walk through how it all came together, starting with the cutfile. I chose the Sunburst Heart file from the CUT to YOU store and resized it in silhouette studio to fill up a large portion of the cardstock background. Once cut out, I backed all the individual ‘bursts’ of the heart with a rainbow assortment of patterns from both the 12×12 and A5 paper stack, then added machine stitching for extra detail.

I drew a rough outline of where the heart would sit on the layout and splattered the inks around in the same order that the papers are on the cutfile, then once dry I adhered the heart over the top using foam and double sided tape to pop it off the page.

I added the photo to a piece of the woodgrain paper (Cross it Off) and adhered to the right of the heart, then using the Foam title stickers and some older alpha stickers created the title to the left of the photo.

I created 3 floral clusters within a ‘visual triangle’ to embellish the layout and draw the eyes attention around the page. The clusters are made up of both fussy cut (Spring Fling) and ephemera florals, puffy stickers and a couple of word stickers from the accessory sheet.

I kept some of the threads loose for added texture, and used a range of different adhesives within the clusters for different depths of dimension

I ended up cutting the white cardstock down and matting the entire layout on to the Ditsy Daisy paper then added more machine stitching into 2 opposite corners.

Here’s a final look at the entire layout

Really loving this collection , and am very quickly using up so much of the pretty papers. I’ve got a mini book in the works that I hope to share soon thats used up a tonne of this collection, can’t wait for you to see it!

Well Scrappy friends thats all from me for now, thanks so much for stopping by.

Until next time, Happy Scrapping!
Michelle x