You Rock | Legendary Collection | Raquel Bowman

Hey everyone, I’m here today capping off the Stars and Stripes theme this week on the CVS blog. Of course, I chose to use the amazing Legendary collection which compliments this theme beautifully.

Here is the layout that I created:

This layout is documenting a photo of my little man taken at the start of March – pre-covid restrictions here in Australia. We had taken a family drive to a small town about an hour from our house to visit the market and township. Jack decided to pose on the townships post office doorstep. I adore this photo but it does project such an innocence in this little man. Jack has such a beautiful and sensitive little heart, but certainly as I have documented many times keeps us on our toes. I chose to feature a stripe through the diagonal stripe ‘Explorer’ pattern paper that has backed my photo. If there is one paper that I would love multiples of in this collection it is this lime stripe paper (or the Woodgrain, who can pass up a nice woodgrain). Instead of using my own typewritten journaling I used the tiny word stickers in the accessory sticker sheet. I was able to make a little phrase by adapting some of the stickers available.

The main design element of this photo was a cut file tag which is called Geometric Tags and is available in the Cut To You online store. In my cutting machine software I manipulated the tag so it was bigger and wider – so I could have a giant tag on my layout. The tag features stars – which I was able to highlight by backing the cut file with different patterned papers. I used the yellow in the Wild One paper and the orange in the One Way paper.

The title of the page ‘you rock’ was created using the clear stickers. I adhere the stickers onto a white card and fussy cut around them creating my own die cut titles. I love how these turned out! I also added a flair featuring a star to this title area.

I created an embellishment cluster in the bottom left corner of the page featuring ephemera and fussy cut stars. I used the stars from the All Star paper to trace onto the woodgrain paper. This helped balance the darker elements of woodgrain in the embellishments.

To finish the page I scattered multiple fussy cut stars. These make a nice design element but also can be used to help balance out any colours that are featured on the layout. The entire layout was then bordered on a patterned paper featuring stars called Offbeat.

Thanks so much for stopping by the CVS blog today. I hope my layout has given you some stars and stripe inspiration!