Happy Days | Monthly Challenge | Rachel Lowe
Have you seen this months monthly challenge? So beautiful and it instantly reminded me of my trip to Italy and namely Capri. Here is my layout and November challenge.
I chose a lemon cut file as Capri was all about lemons and Lemonchello! This gorgeous cut file is from Cut to You (created by Gwen). I used my CVS stash to created this layout and found a check yellow paper piece and a script paper piece. I decided to add my paper pieces with foam tape to add dimension, which when creating a 8.5×11 inch layout is important.
Before adhereing to my white cardstock I add some yellow watercolour and when dry added some script stamp and embossed with white power. This adds not only visual interest but also adds texture again important on a smaller layout size.
To add some pops of colour to contrast against the yellow and white I chose a turquoise and blues. I added my photo (me in Capri admiring the view) on a mat of turquoise with foam tape. I embellished around my photo, adding some fussy cut turquoise flowers, a journal spot and camera die cut.
I used alpha stickers to create my title and used accessory sticker sentiment phrases as sub journalling. I finished off adding some fussy cut butterflies and foam taped them around my page.
These papers and embellishments from my stash created a perfect travel themed layout. I love how scrapbook challenges inspire you and get your mojo going, this being a perfect challenge to document a beautiful time in a beautiful country!
Thank you for stopping by.
Rachel X
Here is my throwback Thursday layout featuring a photo of my daughter. I went for an uplifting/inspirational layout for her. As you can see I have used a mix of collections here but they still coordinate so well together. I used two cut files from the Silhouette design store, paint palette and title ‘paint your dreams’.
I used the script writing inspirational paper as my base. I cut a 10×10 inch white cardstock strip and centred this on my base page. I next cut the paint palette and brush as this was the feature of my page. I found a wood grain paper in my CVS 12×12 paper box, once cut I added machine stitching to the edge. I backed it with a marble paper and to add a little something extra I added glitter to the paint blotches. I then added with foam tape off centre onto the white cardstock.
I then added my paint brush and added some small butterfly die cuts under the palette. I found a gorgeous die cut doily and used this to mat my photo. I used some phrase sentiments under my photo and finished off with a camera die cut.
I added my title, I used some silver glitter paper for one word to stop it from looking too flat visually. I also added a light splash of black paint to add some contrast.
To finish off my page I added some beautiful die cut flowers and enamel dots. I added some more light splatters of black paint.
Most of these papers and embellishments are no longer in the store but you can recreate this layout with what you have in your CVS stash and don’t forget CVS have 