Wild Thing | Great Escape Collection | Rachel lowe

Hey crafty friends Rachel here! Today I have another layout created with the fabulous Great Escape collection. I have used a photo of my oldest boy who is now in the Air Force and has made this mum very proud.

I used this awesome geometric cut file from the Silhouette Design store and cut it in black for impact, I chose the Happy Camper orange side paper to back the cut file as it contrast so well. I used white cardstock as my base paper and added a grey/blue paint wash and splatters and added the Adventurer paper as a border.

I again used the Adventurer paper and cut a strip 4×9 inches and placed to the left of the circle cut file. I used the dark blue strip from the Wild Life paper over this trip. I next added my 6×4 portrait photo with foam tape so I could add elements under.

I used  chipboard pieces to add dimension to my layout and to emphasise the patterns of the paper. to ensure my photo did not get ‘lost’ amongst the patterns and colours I added clusters of embellishments around it. Layering over and under elements greats great visual interest.

I love the Puffy Title stickers and as you can see you on my layout I manipulated them to curve following the shape of the circle cut file. I added some Puffy Star stickers in amongst my colour wash to create the illusion of a sky.

I did try a coloured version of my photo but as there are many colours and patterns in this layout it just didn’t work but a black & white version really popped off the page!

Thank you for stopping by today and happy scrapping!

Rachel X