So Rad | Legendary | Tazhiana Gordon
Hello friends and welcome back to the Cocoa Vanilla blog. I cannot begin to explain to you how excited I am to be sharing my first layout with the Legendary collection, so for this page, I’m scrapping a photo of my two favorite guys – my husband and our yummy nephew.
I had the idea to kind of create a circular element of triangles so I pulled four papers that were patterned but felt like a solid in green, blue, orange, and yellow and cut out a series of progressively smaller triangles and then layered them on top of each other in this kind of circular shape. I also distressed the edges with my distressing tool because that is one of my go-to techniques on a page and tried to vary the direction the triangles were going in. I chose to print my photo in black and white and mat it on a single paper since there was so much pattern in the background already.
Next, I pulled out the ephemera pack and started embellishing and I literally gasped out loud when I saw all of the stars and the variety of sizes and colors. I decided to make the stars my main shape element and tucked them in front of and behind my photo to add height and interest. Next, I added a few other pieces of ephemera around my photo and propped the whole thing up on foam. I added a few stars cascading on top of my photo cluster and underneath it to kind of continue that vertical line and I love the effect that gives.
For my title, I decided to do what always works- pick one from the cardstock title pack and I also propped this up on foam tape. I added a few sentiments from the Accessory sticker sheet as well as some clear stickers around the page and called this one done!
I hope you enjoyed this layout and it inspired you to play with shape and paper on your next project. There is a process video of this page if you want to see how it all came together. Till next time!
One of my favourite papers from the collection is the rainbow one called ‘Wild One’, I love how it is in a diagonal design! I trimmed it down slightly and added it to the ‘Explorer’ paper, I like the navy as a mat for the page. I then cut out a diagonal triangle cut file design from The Cut Shoppe from white cardstock and placed it over the top of the paper. I love how the white breaks up some of the rainbow paper. I machine stitched around the outside edge of the layout.
The large stars in the ephemera pack have a line drawn on them so they were perfect to machine stitch, see the detail on 2 of the larger stars in the photo below. I matted my photo using the wood grain frame die-cut and one of the small cut out papers from the ‘Total Legend’ paper, I also stapled one of banner die-cuts to the top left corner of my photo. I adhered the largest star in the top left corner and the smaller one in the bottom right corner and then adhered my photo over the top.
The Die-Cut title pack are awesome and I love the font of these! I chose the words ‘Cool Dude’ for my title and popped it up with pop dots underneath and placed to the right of my photo. I took lots of the coloured stars from the die-cut pack and popped them up in rainbow fashion like the paper. I love the height and shadows this creates! I also added one of the awesome flair buttons with the star on it to the right of the ‘Cool’ word in my title. Lastly I added a few of the clear stickers, accessory stickers and enamel dots to finish my layout.
