Hello again crafty friends!
Today, I’m sharing a layout I did as a fun challenge for International Scrapbook Day.
Challenge #1, at Paige Taylor Evans’ Facebook Group, Happy Scrappy Place, was a monochromatic design.
Naturally, “think pink”, fell from my lips as I sorted through all the delicious Paige Evans’ collections.
This mix is mostly from Paige’s latest collection for Pink Paislee called Horizon. I am entirely smitten. I was inspired to choose Paige’s Layered Heart cut-file. Find it at her Etsy Shop and at the Silhouette Studio Store.
I also appreciated how fast it cut out because I decided to make a wreath using eight layered hearts. I planned to sew the layers together and gathered my tools and threads.
Initially, I choose a pink embroidery floss but decided it got lost on the pink paper and changed it to gold. What colour would you have use?
After sewing the hearts together, I lightly traced a lunch plate onto white American Crafts cardstock. My plan was to create a mixed media background to lay my hearts on.
Guess what? I changed my mind again. For me, the page became too busy. It’s all part of the process and I never feel like it’s time wasted. It’s just fun to try new things and I’ll save it for another layout.
In the end, with the background white, I played up the boarder by framing it in a bright pink and sewed on sequins. Even though my wreath is round, I added all the other items in a diagonal, from top left to bottom right. The hearts were also mounted on foam to add depth. Finally, I ruffled up each heart for maximum texture. Again, here’s my finished layout.
Thank you so much for coming by!
Cheers, Kelly
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Kelly Made It 
I missed this one. I absolutely love pink so this is just up my alley. I think this is beautiful ❤
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Hello lovely friend! How nice of you to come by and thank you for your sweet message too. I have always loved pink too. It mixes well with yellow and aqua, my two other go to colours. Preferably in pastels. I would have been perfectly content in a ’50’s shopping store, buying pastel everything…fridge, stove, shoes, clothes, dishes. Jim and I spotted a pastel mint Vespa yesterday and I put my order in for one with him, LOL…then I said, “No, wait ! I would want pink ! Wait! make it baby pink!” Like it was an official thing, hahaha. xo K
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It looks beautiful, Boomdee! I enjoy seeing all the creativity going on here!
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Thank you so much Lavinia ! I just love love paper everything, LOL These photo’s from my trip to see Pauline and her girls in NZ with Alys and Laurie (another blogging friend)
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Hello Boomdee! I always enjoy reading about your process. I too will often scrap several attempts at something before getting it right…or as right as I can for the time and materials at hand. I smiled when I realized the second pic is in New Zealand. Is that truck pic of you from the same trip? Your layered hearts are a delight and I agree that the gold thread works better. It punches up the pink layers. Are those sequins sewn on by hand? What a masterpiece. I’m glad you’re enjoying yourself. You always make it look fun. Xo
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Happy Friday Bestie ! Thank you, mwah, mwah, for all your sweet comments. That is the vintage pick-up truck at the winery we walked to 😀 What a glorious spot that was hey? The sequins are sewn on but you know what, it’s faster than everyone thinks. I just make the holes with a ruler that has holes in it. Then I straight stitch and add a sequin every other stitch.
Of course I had to scrap Wanaka and the girls when the pink ephemera I dug out was all about travel 😀 What a fab tribe we are xo K
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Hi Kelly! I really love this page! It is nice to hear your thought process while working on a layout and that you may start in one direction and end up going in another. Such a pretty result and you have a lovely mixed media wreath for another layout!😉💕💕
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Hi Sandy, thank’s so much for coming by and your message too. For sure, the only thing certain about designing a page is that I’d change my mind on any number of elements at least a dozen times 😀 I start with a idea and after a few detours, my vision is realized. Gosh, I love pink (and aqua and spring green and melon and…..LOL). Hugs!!
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