Gather…

There are many things we gather in life… our thoughts, the leaves and even when sewing!
And one thing I’ve gathered when using the latest Maggie Holmes collection is that I adore it!

Capture

The 12 x 12″ Gather papers are stunning – I was especially smitten with the birds paper ‘Kindred’
So I decided that for this months’ layouts I would use a piece of paper to cover a third of the cardstock, along with an accent piece of paper – for this layout I used ‘Melody’ and a gathered section of crepe paper from my own stash!

By now you probably know I like random, so when I saw these emoticon flair badges by Freckled Fawn I knew they wouldn’t be leaving my basket… How cute is that rosette? Its such a sweet size – not overly big as so many of them seem to be!

The mixed embellishment pack came with two adorable bows – simple to make, but lets face it, if its down for you, why faff – you can have more time for scrapping!

The chipboard accents are a lovely mix of larger words, in a diverse range of fonts and styles along with many shapes.

Write it on your heart

I love fussy cutting and when I saw the Jane paper, featuring an abundance of roses and gorgeous leaves, I knew my fine scissors were coming out to play!

In the foiled accent stickers there are the cutest little birds – I took great delight (and a lot of foam sticker pads!) to cite this bird on top of the acrylic frame – these were from my stash, but you could easily recreate them from cardstock.

I do have a thing for tassels – again in recent collections they seem to have been a bit too large to comfortably use. However, the ones in this collection are so dinky, they are even ideal for carmakers.

The ‘favourite’ paper features a black check design, and whilst probably too heavy to use as an all over paper, it was ideal as the accent paper in my second layout.