Life is Sweet – Pink Fresh Studio – Happy Blooms – Wendy Meffan

Hi Everyone! It’s August and I’m back on the blog again and this month I’m using the Happy Blooms Collection from Pink Fresh Studio. I just couldn’t wait to get started with this beautiful collection. It has so many beautiful papers in gorgeous colours so I decided to make a patch work effect on my first layout to really show off a selection of the papers.

I chose four different papers from the 6×6 paper pad and cut them into 3″ squares and distressed the edges. I arranged them over the page and then machine stitched in straight stitch and zigzag stitch.

I matted the photos on papers from the 6×6 paper pad and raised them on sticky fixers. I used one of the tags from the journalling bits as a template and created a second one, I distressed the edges and tucked them in behind the photos.

I’v noticed recently the trend of paper folding on layouts and I’ve never done this myself unless instructed in a class. I have loved the flower effect which I first saw by Paige Taylor Evans so decided to create three large floral shaped for this layout. I cut several small 2.5″ squares and then cut them into triangles and folded them. I then glued them onto a circular piece of card to hold them all together and create the flower shape. I repeated this process twice more and made the final flower larger. i added a clear rhinestone to the centre of each.

I arranged the three florals around the layout.

I then added some banners from the die cut ephemera. a piece of floral ephemera and then punched a butterfly which I added between the photos.

I kept this layout quite simple as the folded flowers really speak for themselves.

LAYOUT 2

Recently I tried growing some sweet peas and having seen the beautiful colours of this collection I realised my photos of them were the perfect. It also enabled me to document my attempt at growing flowers!

When I started this layout I had four photos I wanted to use so I decided to create a film strip in the lilac floral 12×12 paper called Garden. I decided to make a mixed media back ground using distress oxides and then I used a small flower stencil with white texture paste over the top. i made the film strip the central focus of the layout and then made clusters around it.

I trimmed some of the white edges off the floral ephemera and then added a combination of the die cut ephemera, puffy stickers and I cut some of the stamps from the 12×12 garden paper.