Family Love

This layout came about by pure chance really!  I was tidying my workspace and came across a set of six small photos that I had printed out and hadn’t used and thought I should really use them on a project. 

We are lucky that although they live nearly 300 miles away our daughter and her husband still like to spend time with us just visiting or going on holiday together, which results in lots of family photos.

All papers were from the Paige Evans Splendid Paper Pad but I have referenced the paper number, on the single sheets in this range, to help identify which ones I have used.

For this layout I started by fussy cutting this paper into three pieces this is called Paper 7. As you can see, I only cut out the main flower and leaf shapes as it would have been too time consuming to cut out all the small ones but that was my preference and you may have more patience than I have :0)

I wanted a bold background so chose the orange paper as my background (reverse of Paper 17) and trimmed ¼ in from the top and one side so that when I added it to a piece of white 12 x 12 it had a slight white border.

 Starting with the largest piece of the wreath I layered all three at the bottom of my page.  I used foam pads to adhere them to give some dimension.

I used die-cut flowers to extend the swag at each side and to fill in any empty spaces.

I fussy cut three rows of butterflies, from the butterfly paper (Paper 3) and curled the wings around my finger to give them a nice shape.  These were tucked in around the wreath.

For photo mounts I cut three tags from the Paper 22, hole punched them and added string bows. The yellow one was added to the top of my layout in the centre with a pink one on the left and a teal one on the right, at slight angles.  Then two photos were added to each one.

I had some spare butterflies so placed one on each of the two outer tags.

To finish I added my title using Splendid thickers and a die-cut from the Embellishment Die-Cut pack.

Products used

Paige Evens Splendid Paper Pad

Paige Evens Splendid Thickers

Paige Evens Splendid Sticker Book

Paige Evens Splendid Die-Cut Elements

Paige Evans Splendid Floral Ephemera