October 16, 2024 louise crosbie

So Berry Sweet: Layout by Karen Moss

Today, I have another layout featuring our little grandson at the strawberry patch. For this one I wanted to make a strawberry shaker so I kept the majority of the page quite simple and without many embellishments (for me anyway 😄 ). Other than two small butterfly die-cuts, it is just Maja Design - Mum’s Garden papers.

I have a process video here

I cut out the three, joined, strawberries on my Silhouette and also cut another five single strawberries. I backed the berries with the Long Talks paper and the leaves with Greenery paper.

I then layered up four of the five single strawberries onto the centre one and added sprinkles to this. The final strawberry had it's leaves backed with a piece of Greenery paper and the berry backed with a piece of acetate. This was then added to the layered up strawberry - I used some Glossy Accents for this to ensure a strong bond between the acetate and the card below.

To construct my layout I started with a piece of white 12" x 12" card. I trimmed a piece of Mother's Day paper to 11 1/12" square and then trimmed this into a 1" frame. A 10" square piece of Plants, a piece of Patio 4" x 12", a piece of white card 12" x 3" and a small piece of Patio that I had stuck to a piece of A4 paper and run through my printer for the journaling.

I started by adding the frame to the white card, onto this I placed the square of Plant with the piece of Patio going across the middle and the strip of white card through the middle of this. My journaling was added to the top of the strip of white card.

I added four photos, which were slightly smaller than 3" square to the white strip of card.

The strawberry shaker was placed centrally underneath the photos. I punched four (but only used three) strips of paper, two each of Greenery and Long Talks and these were added at the bottom of my page. I also used the heart branding strip from the Long Talks paper.