You’re The Best | No Limits Collection | Michelle Stokes

Hello fellow Creatives! It’s Michelle back here today with a new layout to share with you all using the awesome No Limits Collection. A layout that stared off looking a lot different to the way it finished up.

Does anyone else out there start a layout with a clear intention of following along a certain design direction, especially when creating something to follow a specific theme, or use a specific product, only to fall down a completely different rabbit hole? Just me?

Well this crazy crafter was given the task of showing off the wonderful Chipboard Stickers and Woodgrain Buttons from the No Limits collection. I had a specific idea in mind to create something that used a tonne of both embellishments, and next to no pattern paper… But then I got a little side-tracked with what I was watching while crafting and Voila! A pinwheel of sorts made up of a bunch of pattern papers with awesome bright colours and designs and a splattering of embellishments.

I still think it turned out pretty rad, just not the direction I intended to take haha

This sweet little face amongst the tiny plushies absolutely loves when I create layouts for her that aren’t the traditional girly colours and patterns, so this collection No Limits is right up her alley. I framed the photo using the larger chipboard sticker Frame and grouped it with the smaller to act as a frame for the title piece (also a chipboard sticker), ephemera piece and wood button.

The background is made up of a few different layers starting with the base – woodgrain BIG BANG paper, white cardstock that is twisted over the top and adhered flat. Next is the wonky pinwheel, made up of 8 different patterns from the 12×12 papers that are cut down into smaller triangles. I’ve sewn around each and left the threads loose for a little added texture to the layout then adhered each to the layout using pieces of foam for slight dimension.

I used a mix of chipboard pieces to the left hand side as embellishments, words that can often be used to describe this child of mine. I’ve added another wood button to the group also

I used a colour blocking method for the extra embellishments in both the orange and yellow sections of the pinwheel, adding fussy cut stars from both the 12×12 and A5 versions of NEBULA paper

I added the date using a cut apart piece from the A5 version of UNIVERSAL paper and grouped it together with a star and the black ORBIT paper triangle

Well scrappy friends, thats all from me today. Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope this layout has inspired you to create using colour blocks, and even fall down that rabbit hole of creating once in a while. You never know which direction it might take you.

Until next time, Happy Scrapping!
Michelle x