Sweet You | These Days collection | Mandy Melville
Hello everyone!
Mandy here today to share a new layout with you! This week on the blog, the design team have been tasked with scraplifting themselves. This was a fun assignment, and I have to say, I really enjoyed looking back at past projects that I’ve created using the beautiful Cocoa Vanilla Studio collections. I decided to recreate a layout I made back in 2018 using the gorgeous Bohemian Dream collection…
For my new project, I chose to use the lovely These Days collection to document a recent photo of my eldest daughter…
When creating my new layout I stuck very close to the design of my original layout, making use of the 3×4 inch Pocket Cards to create a grid. As with my original layout, I added multiple layers behind each section of the grid and adhered them at a slight angle to give the layout lots of interest and depth. I decided on using the beautiful Daybreak paper as my background and I love the soft mixed media look that this adds to the page.
Using my original layout as a guide again, I added my photo to the top right section of the grid. I layered a Pocket Card, as well as a paper from the A5 Paper Stack behind the photo, and then adhered it using craft foam for added dimension. As on the the original layout, I added some embellishing to the right of the photo, including some Die Cuts as well as a beautiful Gold Glitter Puffy Heart. I also added a couple of little flowers that I fussy cut out of one of the A5 papers. In choosing the embellishments for this page, I really wanted to include some icons and images that had relevance to my daughter. I therefore decided to include the mug, to signify her love of tea, and the typewriter, because she’s an amazingly talented creative writer. I like to include little things like that on my pages, that are significant to the person I’m creating the layout about.
For my title I decided on using the phrase ‘Sweet you’ from the beautiful Foam Title Stickers. I added this underneath my photo, in the same place where I’d included the wood veneer word on the original layout. I adore the lovely scripty font, and the dark title helps to balance out the darkness in the background of the photo.
I added another embellishment cluster to the pocket card in the bottom left section of the grid, creating a diagonal flow from the cluster in the top right. Again I used my original page as a guide, which made the whole process very easy! In this cluster I included some more Die Cuts and Floral Ephemera, as well as another Gold Glitter Puffy Heart. Of course I had to include that cute stack of books to signify my daughter’s love of reading. I also used the sweet Mini Puffy Alpha Stickers as part of my journaling on this Pocket Card.
To finish the layout off, I added a couple of butterflies, which were fussy cut from an A5 Paper, and a sprinkling of enamel dots from the Legendary collection.
Have you tried scraplifting yourself? I really enjoyed recreating a layout that I’d previously made, and recommend giving it a go next time you’re looking for some inspiration!
Mandy