Life is Better on the Farm – Echo Park – Farmer’s Market – Wendy Meffan

Hi Everyone! It Wendy here and I’m sharing my first layout for March using Echo Park Farmer’s Market Collection. Having spent a week scrapbooking in a converted Barn attached to to a farm  in Wales, this collection had some great colours and embellishments for my photos.

We went for a lovely walk in the farmland surrounding the barn and found a brilliant photo op in one of the fields where there was a gorgeous piece of fence, so we had a quick photo shoot! With Kirei and Jo having splashes of mustard in their clothes colours the photos leant themselves to this collection with the mustard colour.

As I had five photos to scrap I decided on a grid layout style as it lends itself to lots of photos. It also meant I could show case lots of the papers in the 6×6 paper pad as I used three layers under the photos.

I gutted the 12×12 Gather Floral paper and used the mustard check side for a border to the layout to bring out the mustard colour. I then cut five of the 6×6 papers into 3″ squares and then arranged a cross in the floral paper, then I layered the remaining papers in threes in the corners. I distressed the edges and used foam pads between each paper to give some dimension. I then placed a photo on each one and added a collection of fussy cut flowers from the 12×12 Gather Floral paper.

I decided to place Kirei in the centre of the layout as her coat was mustard and pulled everything together! I again used three papers 3×3″ square and distressed the edges and layered them up. I added punched tabs to each of the photos.

I decided to use some of the frames and tags die cuts above and below the centre photo, so used the Life is better on the Farm tag and fussy cut a tractor from the paper pad cut apart sheet. Again I distressed the edges and used foam pads to attach them to the layout.

Above the photo I used the so lovely tag and the  farm animal tag, I then thought it would be fun to make a paper tassel. ( I’ve never done this before!) I cut a small rectangular strip of paper and cut 3/4 of the way through it like fringing. I then cut a tiny strip to be the loop out the top, folded it in half and glued it together.

I then glued it to the inside edge at the end of the rectangular strip and rolled the pice up and glued it together. I held it for a few moments until the glue had set. I then cut another little strip which I glued around the top and my tassel was made! Not bad for my first attempt!

I threaded hemp twine through both tags and the tassel and attached them to the layout.

I was pleased with the end result of the whole layout, and felt it has showcased a lot of the colours in the collection which is great for country photos.

Please do take a look at this collection if you’ve not considered it as it has such a gorgeous colour selection in it, it is very versatile.

Don’t forget to post your layouts in the Hey Little Magpie Chat and Inspiration facebook page as we love seeing your creativity.

until next time … Happy Scrapping!

xx

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