November 11, 2024 louise crosbie

Fa-La-La-La-La: Layout by Sue Crease

Hello,

Today I am sharing a layout for The Mad Scrapper Blog and I'm using a great collection from Simple Stories called Boho Christmas Collection Kit 12"X12". It has some wonderfully whimsical images on the papers and sticker sheet. The photo was taken last year on the Christmas carousel and I thought it would be fun to use circles on the layout today.

I started by cutting down the white card to 11 inches and distressing the edges. Then I took the spotty paper and gutted out the centre for later and matted the white on to it. I wanted to add something to the white so I pulled out 3 distress inks and added random circles and some branches with berries. A full list can be found below.

Then I used lots of different Rub-ons around the layout. I just love that I still had one that shows Christmas Day falling on Wednesday which it does this year.

I cut random size circles with different edges from the papers within the collection and I put my photo on to a Candyfloss matt and tucked foam underneath for dimension

I took a selection of stickers and added them to either white or pink cardstock to allow me to move them around before deciding where they would finish up. I also added some directly down.

This next photo shows the Rub-ons, which I added, along with the largest circle cut from the gutted spotty paper. I decided to stitch around 3 of the circles.

This shows closely some of the added stickers

Here you can see the whole layout and you can see all the extras I have added such as flatback sequins and Nuvo red drops. It's quite a busy layout for me but I love it and I hope you do and that I have inspired you to try something different too.