Journal Page by VICKI PUNTON

Hey Everyone,

I have another layout using the Daydream kit from Cocoa Vanilla Studio.  This time it's a journal page about my little boy starting school.  I like to keep these pages pretty simple.  It means that even if I don't have a lot of time I still manage to document the stories.  When I look back through my journal I'm not going to worry about the pages  being simple but will enjoy the memories!

I cut down the Sun Shower 12x12 paper to make my pages.  This is my book ring journal so I was able to make the pages any size.  I choose to make them 19cm x 11cm.  I kept one yellow side up and flipped the other over to the white with rainbow drops.  It felt a bit busy so I cut down the Garden Variety paper and glued it down with the blue/grey side up. 

On the opposide to the blue there are the most amazing florals.  They just beg to be fussy cut.  I cut out a few a left them to the side to add onto the page later.  The Happy Place cut apart sheet had the sweetest rainbow so I cut around that too and added it to the side of the right page.  I love seeing the blue paper peeping through from behind.

I added a strip of the rainbow drops paper behind my photo to break up the yellow and glued my photo down just off centre so I had space at the bottom to add that sweet strip with hearts on.  Foam adhesive was perfect to add those little flower clusters and give them a bit of dimension. I like that they're hanging off the edge of the pages and not taking over too much too.  Once I'd added my title I found that the alphas were a bit too white so I went around and added some faux stitching with a light yellow pen.

 I finished off adding some enamel dots and a few little details with a grey pen.  Usually I'd have used a black but the grey works much better with the pastel colours in the papers.  These papers really make it easy to create some lovely pages and save the stories!

 Supplies List

Daydream - Sun Shower 12x12 Paper

Daydream - Garden Variety 12x12 Paper

Daydream - Happy Place Cut Apart 12x12 Paper

Daydream - Puffy Hearts

WBG Enamel Dots

Grey Dual Tip Pen