Storyteller A5 paper pad

This Story | Storyteller Collection | Melissa Vining

Hi everyone, Its Melissa here and I’m back today to share a layout that I created with the beautiful Storyteller collection for our current Tell a Story theme!  If you’ve followed my work for a while you’ll know that the story behind the photo is just as important to me as the photo!  So for this layout I carefully selected a photo that had a big story I wanted to tell.  The photo is of Ava at her first Pediatrician’s appointment when we first moved a year ago.

I had a lot to write for my journaling on this layout.  So I went into my stash to find lined paper to ensure that I wrote straight! My background paper is Spring Fling and if you watch my video below you’ll see that this isn’t the paper I started with.  I added white acrylic paint splatters to make it more painterly.

I added some distress oxide ink using the packaging technique to provide some distress and interest onto the lined paper.  I love how it looks against the mixed media look of the blue background paper.

I backed my sweet photo of Ava with three papers from the A5 Paper Stack.  I distressed all of the edges and went with an lining them up unevenly.  I embellished with a cute banner from the Die Cut Ephemera, and I created my title with two of the Chipboard Stickers.

Other embellishments I used are Chipboard Stickers, Accessory Stickers and Wood Buttons.  I added twine from my stash and machine stitching helped adhere the lined paper and added texture.

I adore the sweet camera ephemera pieces, and was thrilled to get on onto this layout.

You can watch my process video below.

Have a lovely weekend!

Melissa xx

 

Home | Storyteller collection |Sophie Delorme

Hello Cocoa Vanilla friends!

It’s Sophie on the blog today and I am happy to share a brand-new page created with the Storyteller collection.

 

I used two cut files for this layout. They are designed by Paige Evans.

I used a thick white cardstock for my background. I backed a few of the clouds with a blue patterned paper from the A5 Paper Stack. I added a little bit of white gesso on some areas to create a more faded and fluffier look.

I placed the clouds on the upper part of the page, mounted on foam adhesive.

 

I backed the little houses cut file with many different patterned papers, again from the A5 Paper Stack and added a few white scalloped borders created with a border punch.

 

I also created a shaker heart on the middle bigger house and used some coral sequins from my stash.

 

I used a colored photo of my daughter Sabrina watering the garden with the “help” of our two dogs…

My title comes from the Foam Title Stickers pack.

 

I wrote down my journaling on a fussy cut piece of patterned paper and embellished around the shaker heart, journaling and photo with bits and pieces from the Die Cut Ephemera pack. I scattered a few Puffy Sticker Hearts as the finishing touch.

Here are more close-ups:

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love to use cut files on my pages. Do you use them often?

Well, thank you for passing by, and I will see you again soon!

Sophie xx

So Sweet | Storyteller | Rachel Lowe

Hello CVS friends here is my second layout using the beautiful Storyteller collection. The star of my layout is my rescue cat who brings so much love and joy to our home!

The circle heart cut file can be found in the Silhouette Design Store. As I cut it in white it blends perfectly into the white base paper. I used papers from the A5 Storyteller paper pad to cut the hearts and I used five different colours/patterns. I cut some extra ones so I could layer up some of the heart to create dimension, I have not used any of my 12×12 inch papers here.

I cut my photo to fill the circle centre, a 6×4 inch landscape photo fits perfectly. I next added my title using the foam title stickers, slightly curving it to the circle shape. When you have a page that has a significant amount of white, using black is a wonderful contrast and makes your title pop!

I next set about creating a floral cluster under my photo using the floral ephemera pack. So your floral bunch doesn’t end up looking ‘flat’, layer them and some add foam tape and then go back and tuck in leaves and sprigs. Again I followed the shape the photo centre circle.

 

I created a smaller embellishment cluster using the die cut ephemera pack, wood epoxy buttons and chipboard. Again layer your embellishments, here I added the camera with foam tape, tucked under a chipboard butterfly and layered over a chipboard sentiment, finished off with a wood epoxy button.

Lastly I went back and added some more butterflies, wood epoxy button and a phrase sentiment die cut. The colours of Storyteller go perfectly with the colours of my photo. I love how this turned out and after the loss of two cats in the last year I am focusing on taking more photos of my pets.

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you have a fab week with time to create too!

Rachel X

 

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