Do you create your layout theme to match your photos or choose your photos to match your theme? I chose to create a whimsical style layout as this photo of the washing line full of puppy toys lent itself to a more light-hearted design. 

I hand-stitched the sun’s rays and filled the inside with a rainbow collage made from punched patterned paper circles and embellished with Puffy Stickers and Shape Shaker Fillers.

The title was created using an altered digital cut file and Co-ordinating Stickers before being overlaid with handstitching.

I then placed two strips of patterned paper across the bottom to draw the eyes down towards the journaling and to give the layout an overall balanced appearance. 

Supplies: 

Jillibean Soup 

Patterned Paper: Bohemian Brew/Bite Size Bits, Happiness, Content; 2 Cool For School/Bite Size Bits, Wild Child; Farmhouse Stew/Bite Size Bits, Hold Your Horses, Goodness Gracious; Shades of Color/Happy Hues 

Coordinating Stickers: Bohemian Brew; 2 Cool For School; Shades of Color 

Puffy Stickers: Bohemian Brew; 2 Cool For School; Farmhouse Stew 

Shape Shaker Fillers: Jewels & Sequins/Reds-Pinks, Blues, Oranges 

Cut File: Sunshine On My Mind 

Other: White Card Stock, Embroidery Thread.

I've never really been known to use multiple photos in my layouts but every now and again I surprise myself and come up with a design in my head that requires more than just a single photo. Actually, the photos dictated this design as I just loved the sequence of shots my littlest man and I had taken when we were attempting a selfie of his painted face. I just didn't want to leave any of the photos out as they told a story of how much fun we were having at this particular moment in time.

I used papers and embellishments from four different Jillibean Soup collections as I had a rough idea of the colour scheme I wanted to use so literally just picked a sheet here and a sheet there until I had all the colours I was after.

Once I had everything down on the paper I realised the title got lost with everything that was going on so I cut a white bee from one of the Jillibean Soup cut files and added the title over it which worked perfectly.

Supplies:

Jillibean Soup

Patterned Paper: Bohemian Brew/Bite Size Bits, Calm, Happiness, Unity

Co-ordinating Label Stickers: 2 Cool For School/Bohemian Brew/Farmhouse Stew/Shades of Color

PeaPod Parts: 2 Cool For School/Bohemian Brew/Farmhouse Stew

Puffy Stickers: Bohemian Brew/Farmhouse Stew

Adhesive Sequins: Gray Melon, Yellow Mellow

Day2Day: Shaped Paper Clips

Soup Labels: 2 Cool For School

Cut File: Jillibean Soup - Bee

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Other: White Card Stock, Embroidery Thread, White Gel Pen

Hello! Yes, that's me saying 'hi' but also the name of the collection I've used for my layout. Hello from Doodlebug Design is a beautiful mix of bright and vibrant pinks and yellows through to the deep rich tones of turquoise and navy with the most beautiful addition of gold foil highlights... which just happened to be the perfect combination of color for this gorgeous photo of Miss Abigail Sandoval who recently celebrated her graduation. Yes, the name sounds familiar as she is the daughter of Cynthea Sandoval, owner and extraordinaire of Doodlebug Design.

I was so thrilled to receive a graduation announcement via snail mail (all the way to Australia) complete with this beautiful photo and I really wanted to create a layout to send back.

The Hello 'Odds & Ends' Pack has the wonderful addition of clear acetate pieces to give that extra lift to your embellishment clusters without detracting too much from the layout.

To make the lace overlay I uploaded the 'Hello' cut file 'Bouquet' into Silhouette Design Studio and played around with the flowers to form a circle.

I added an outer ring to hold it all together although I left the flower centres as separate pieces.

I cut four copies and mounted them on top of each other for dimension and height. To glue each layer together I used my Tombow glue pen as it was the only thing fine enough to place glue on the flower outlines.

Next step was to cut 1" x 2" rectangles of various patterned papers from the Hello collection 6x6 paper pad that would match perfectly with the colors in the photo. 

 I proceeded to adhered them to the layout in a diagonal pattern to form the base for the lace overlay.

I attached the floral piece and the flower centres onto the patterned paper background and then added the outer ring cut from plain white cardstock to finish the design.

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