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