This | These Days Collection | Melissa Vining

Hi everyone, it’s Melissa here and I’m back with a new layout, this time created with the beautiful These Days collection, which is currently on sale over in the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Shop.  I was in the mood for fussy cutting, so I fussy cut the frames from Wall of Fame, florals from Home Grown, and butterflies from Take Flight.  The photos are of my daughter announcing a fashion show that she put on for us with her little sister.

For this layout I was inspired by the frames and decided to feature them in a  gallery wall-type design.  I also used a frame from the Die Cut Ephemera, and two of the cut aparts from The Good Life.  For my background gallery wall I used Neighbourhood and Family Ties.

As well as photos within the frames, I also used some patterned paper that I then embellished on the fames and paper within the frames. I embellished with fussy cut flowers, fussy cut butterflies and I even used three of the Wood Epoxy Buttons.

I wrote my journaling in one of the cut apart wreaths which I carefully fussy cut around.

I used a word and lots of leaves from the Foam Title Stickers for my title and extra interest.  I love adding lots of different textures on my layouts.  I also used a beautiful gold ‘Puffy Heart’.

I hope you enjoyed my layout created with These Days. If you are in the Southern Hemisphere like me I think this collection will work really well for documenting your Autumn memories.

Take care

Melissa xx