Go Girl with Echo Park Little Dreamer by Fiona Johnstone

Hello everyone
Today I am sharing a layout of my great niece, and what perfect paper to use, the gorgeous Echo Park Little Dreamer range in the prettiest colours!
Go Girl

For this layout, I went with a simple linear design on a neutral patterned paper background. Love the colour on the background paper - perfect match for her dress! Then the darker pink paper compliments it so well! 

I've used the puffy stickers to embellish my layout, love the dimension they give without being too high for those who prefer a flatter page. 

I've used some older thickers in black to really pop off the page and then added some matching black stars to tie my page together. 

Thanks for stopping byTill next weekFionax

Products Used:
Echo Park Little Dreamer Girl paper - Dancing DotsEcho Park Little Dreamer Girl paper - Pocket Full of PosiesEcho Park Little Dreamer Girl paper - You are MagicEcho Park Little Dreamer Girl Puffy StickersKaisercraft White Cardstock - SnowPebbles Girl Squad ThickersHeidi Swapp Stickers

Pure Joy using Echo Park Paper Little Dreamer Girl by Kerryn Fry

Hi everyone!

Today I have created my page with a beautiful collection,

Echo Park Paper Little Dreamer Girl.

The photo is one of my Great-Nieces,

taken at her very first Pageant in 2014.

The base of the page is Bazzill Kraft Cardstock.

I've layered the patterned papers down of the cardstock,

the photo has been matted with the reverse side of Dancing Dots

and then lifted with scrap cardboard for dimension.

A white gel pen has been used to highlight certain elements on the page,

I've used small dots to outline the pink scalloped sticker

and small scallops to outline the reverse side of the Multi Journaling Cards paper. 

I have hand-cut multiple flowers from the Dreamy Floral paper

and used them to build three embellishment clusters on the page.

The top cluster includes stickers from the Element Sheet,

flowers and hand-cut rainbow clouds, all lifted with foam tape.

The 2 Crafty Window Shutter has been covered

with white gesso and white ink.

The window ledge has been covered with patterned paper.

I've backed the window with the reverse side of Rainbow Magic paper.

and then highlighted each panel with a white gel pen.

The stickers used to decorate the window are

all from the Element Stick Sheet.

The 2 Crafty Critters were a fun chipboard addition to the page.

The caterpillar has been hand-painted with Distress Paints,

Peeled Paint, Crushed Olive and Black Soot. 

Once the paint was dry, I've added a layer of Dimensional Magic.

The Lady Bug and 2 Crafty Flower Cluster were also hand-painted.

The Lady Bug was covered with Festive Berries and Black Soot Distress Paint.

The Flower Cluster  was covered with Tumbled Glass,

touches of Stormy Sky and Peeled Paint Distress Paint.

Both have been finished with Dimensional Magic.

The 2 Crafty title Pure Joy has been covered

with Chipped Sapphire Distress Paint.

I've finished it with Dimensional Magic

and added to the page with foam tape.

Thanks for visiting the blog today.

Hopefully you have been inspired to create.

Have a fabulous weekend

and please join us again on Monday.

Products Used:

Bazzill Kraft Cardstock

Echo Park Paper Little Dreamer Girl - Pocket Full of Posies

Echo Park Paper Little Dreamer Girl - Multi Journaling Cards

Echo Park Paper Little Dreamer Girl - Rainbow Magic

Echo Park Paper Little Dreamer Girl - Dancing Dots

Echo Park Paper Little Dreamer Girl - Dreamy Floral

Echo Park Paper Little Dreamer Girl - Element Sticker Sheet

2 Crafty title Pure Joy

2 Crafty Flower Cluster

2 Crafty Critters

2 Crafty Window Shutter

Distress Paint

Dimensional Magic

My Beautiful Girls with Simple Stories Cottage Fields by Fiona Johnstone

Hello everyone
This week I have the Simple Stories Cottage 
My Beautiful Girls

I love the background paper and wanted that to be central to my page. I've added another paper and then I've used torn edges and doilies to create a soft feel to my layout. 

I've used a soft pink ink on the frame that highlights my photos and then added some inky - tiny dots to add a little grunginess to tie in with the background paper. 

My title is a combo of Pinkfresh Studio alphas, love the large Beautiful. 

A close up below of some of the pretty floral ephemera from the Simple Stories Cottage Fields collection:

Thanks for stopping by

Till next week

Fiona

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Good Vibes using Simple Stories Say Cheese Main Street by Kerryn Fry

Good morning everyone, Happy Friday!

Today I'm sharing another creation using the collection,

Simple Stories Say Cheese Main Street

In case you haven't noticed, I LOVE this collection!

The 5x3 B&W photo is of my two most favourite humans,

my partner and Mr H at the 2012 Swimming Championships.

A great night out watching our Olympic hopefuls.

This is a simple, clean page this week.

A 12x12 Bazzil Kraft cardstock base.

Lots of patterned paper layers,

with a touch of Bazzill Raven cardstock.

I've used a border punch on the black cardstock strip.

The journal spot and words are from the Journal Bits

and the photo is sitting on a 4x6 Element piece.

The word 'FUN' has been hand cut from a 3x4 Element piece.

Each letter has been lifted with foam tape.

I have used a ruler and black pen to draw lines vertically

down the paper strips and around the photo.

The stars have been hand cut from the Dreams Come True paper.

They have been added to the page 

with foam tape, in clusters of three.

The black journal spot has been outlined with faux stitching.

Some extra words from the Journal Bits 

to create a sub-title on the page.

The 2 Crafty title Good Vibes has been 

base-coated with gesso and then covered 

with Black Soot Distress Paint.

The title is sitting on a 2 Crafty Splat Puddle,

covered with Distress paint and lifted with foam tape.

The camera is from the Journal Bits

Thank you for visiting the blog today.

Have a wonderful weekend and happy crafting.

Please join us again on Monday.

Products used:

Bazzill Kraft Cardstock

Bazzill Raven Cardstock

Simple Stories Say Cheese Main Street - Magical

Simple Stories Say Cheese Main Street - Happy Magic Memories

Simple Stories Say Cheese Main Street - Dream Come True

Simple Stories Say Cheese Main Street - 4x6 Elements

Simple Stories Say Cheese Main Street - 3x4 Elements

Simple Stories Say CHeesa Main Street - Journal Bits

2 Crafty title Good Vibes

2 Crafty Splat puddle

Distress Paint

Major Heart Eyes with Echo Park Welcome Baby Girl by Fiona Johnstone

Hello everyone
This week I am using the Echo Park Welcome Baby girl collection for my teen girl:
Major 💗💗Eyes

I've used the B Sides of the paper with pretty florals to create this page and gone with the soft feminine white background with a white cutfile and some paint splatters. 

I've used the pretty non-baby themed stickers from the elements sticker sheet and finished off with the cute Foam Thickers for my title. 

Thanks for stopping byTill next weekFionax

Products Used:
Echo Park Welcome Baby Girl - Multi Journaling CardsEcho Park Welcome Baby Girl - Sweet Baby GirlEcho Park Welcome Baby Girl - Milestone Journaling CardsEcho Park Welcome Baby Girl Element Sticker SheetDylusions PaintsCut FileKaisercraft Snow CardstockThickers

Striker using Simple Stories Say Cheese Main Street By Kerryn Fry

Hi everyone!Today I'm sharing another page created with the collection,Simple Stories Say Cheese Main Street.The colour palette is the stand out for this photo.Mr H in his soccer portrait for 2019, he is looking so grown up.Can you believe he plays in two different sports, but both uniforms have yellow in them.

The base cardstock is the heavy duty Bazzill Marshmallow.

The background effect is totally inspired by Vicki Boutin's 

Friday Night Live this past week.

The background started with yellow toned Distress Inks,

Mustard Seed, Scattered Straw and Wild Honey.

I've applied the inks to my messy mat, spritzed with some water 

and then used the cardstock to pick up the colours.

I've used a heat gun to dry the cardstock between the layers.

The remaining ink from the mat has been flicked onto the cardstock.

The next layer is with Distress Oxide Inks and stencils.

I've applied Mustard Seed and Wild Honey to the messy mat,

sprayed the inks again with water

and then put a Tim Holtz Layering Stencils into the ink.

The stencil has then been applied to the cardstock. 

Once dried, I've then used Candied Apple Distress Oxide,

an applicator and a second Tim Holtz Layering Stencil.

I've also flicked some Candied Apple onto the background. 

The background has also been stamped with Hickory Smoke

Distress Ink and Uniquely Creative Grungy Graph Stamp.

The 2 Crafty Stars are from the Weather Bits,

they've been covered with Stormy Sky Distress Paint

and Dimensional Magic.

I've used a black pen to highlight 

the edge of the 3x4 Elements paper, yellow stripe.

The photo has been layered onto Raven Black cardstock 

to define the edges amongst the patterned papers. 

I've hand cut some embellishments from the 3x4 Elements paper.

The 'Camera with speech bubble' has been added with foam tape

and the journal card was tucked under the right side of the photo.

The words have been cut from the 4x6 Element paper.

I've separated each line and used foam tape to add it to the page.

The 2 Crafty Soccer Ball is from the 6x6 Soccer Set.

I've hand painted it with Distress Paint

and covered it with Dimensional Magic.

The 'Dreams Come True' is from the Journal Bits,

I've lifted it with foam tape to create another layer on the page.

The 2 Crafty title is a word from the 6x6 Soccer pack.

I have covered it with Hickory Smoke Distress Paint

and then finished with Dimensional Magic.

I had a ball in my creative mess this past week,

thank you for visiting the blog today

and I hope you have enjoyed the steps.

Have a wonderful Easter, enjoy the weekend

and may there be lots of creating.

Join us again on Monday for Fiona's next project.

Products used:

Bazzill Marshmallow Cardstock

Bazzill Raven Cardstock

Simple Stories Say Cheese Main Street - Dream Come True

Simple Stories Say Cheese Main Street - Happy Magic Memories

Simple Stories Say Cheese Main Street - Magical

Simple Stories Say Cheese Main Street - 4x6 Elemets

Simple Stories Say Cheese Main Street - 3x4 Elements

Simple Stories Say Cheese Main Street - Journal Bits

2 Crafty title Striker - 6x6 Soccer Sheets

2 Crafty Stars - Weather Bits

2 Crafty Soccer Ball - 6x6 Soccer Sheet

Distress Oxide Inks

Distress Inks

Distress Paints

Tim Holtz Layering Stencil

Uniquely Creative Stamp Grungy Graph Mark Making

Dimensional Magic

Fun in the Sun with Cocoa Vanilla Studio Sunkissed by Fiona Johnstone

Hello everyone
Today I have another layout to share with the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Sunkissed collection:
Fun in the Sun

For this layout I have created a background using Distress Oxide Inks and a Vicki Boutin Stencil before adding some paper layers to the top and then embellishing with elements from the Sunkissed Collection. 
I've layered oxide inks in squeezed lemonade, twisted citron and peacock feathers through the stencil, blending the colours together where they join. 

A few torn paper layers and then I have hit the embellishments - as always Cocoa Vanilla have everything you need - floral ephemera, stickers and these super cute wooden epoxy buttons. 

Love the gold foam glitter stickers - perfect titles every tme!

Thanks for stopping byTill next weekFionax


Cocoa Vanilla Studio Sunkissed - Fun in the Sun paperCocoa Vanilla Studio Sunkissed - Growing Wild paperCocoa Vanilla Studio Sunkissed - Good Vibrations paperCocoa Vanilla Studio Sunkissed - Feeling Fine paperCocoa Vanilla Studio Sunkissed - Just Chillin paperCocoa Vanilla Studio Sunkissed - Sunny Days paperCocoa Vanilla Studio Sunkissed - Accessory StickersCocoa Vanilla Studio Sunkissed - Floral EphemeraCocoa Vanilla Studio Sunkissed - Gold Glitter Foam ThickersCocoa Vanilla Studio Sunkissed - Wood Epoxy ButtonsTim Holtz Distressed Oxide -  Squeezed LemonTim Holtz Distressed Oxide - Twisted CitronTim Holtz Distressed Oxide - Peacock Feathers Vicki Boutin Stencil White Cardstock - Snow 

Totally Smitten using Echo Park Paper Co Welcome Baby Boy by Kerryn Fry

Hello again!Today I am sharing the first page that I've created using the very cute collection Echo Park Paper Co Welcome Baby Boy.Another collection I have been drawn to for the colour paletteinstead of the theme of the papers.The photo was taken in 2011,Mr H with one of his cousin.

The base cardstock is Bazzill Kraft, no surprise!

The background effect is a Tim Holtz Layering Stencil

and Cracking Campfire Distress Oxide Ink.

I've added ink on the outer aspects of the cardstock

and then highlighted the edges with a blending tool. 

The 2 Crafty Rainbow was given a base coat of white gesso,

then I've hand-painted the rainbow with Distress Paint.

The clouds were given a few layers of white paint

and then finished with a swipe of White Brilliance Ink.

I have used a white gel pen to add the fake stitch lines

and add stickers from the Element Sticker Sheet with foam tape.

I've used multiple stickers from the Element Sticker Sheet

at the top of the page and lifted them with foam tape for dimension.

I cut out two of the tags from Boy Tags

and added them to the top of the photo.

The photo has two layers as a mat,

Little One Leaves and Raven Cardstock

I've used more of the Raven cardstock with a border bunch

to creat a strip across the page under the photo.

The 2 Crafty Chevron Bits have been covered with

Black Ink and backed with Little One Leaves.

The 'You & Me' square was hand cut from Milestone Journaling Cards,

I've outlined the square with a black gel pen

and then outlined the heart with a white pen.

The square has been added to the page with foam tape.

The 2 Crafty Foliage was painted with 

Rustic Wilderness Distress Paint

and outlined with white gel pen.

The 2 Crafty title Totally Smitten

was covered with Hickory Smoke Distress Paint.

Once dry, I've outlined the letters using a white pen

to create a fake stitch line.

The title and foliage have been lifted with foam tape.

I've decorated around the title with more stickers

from the Element Sticker Sheet

I love how this page turned out.

The stitched lines on the reverse side of Milestone Journaling cards

was a perfect accent to carry across the page.

Thank you for visiting the blog today.

I hope you have enjoyed the steps.

Have a happy, crafty weekend

and please join us again on Monday

for Fiona's next page.

Products used:

Bazzill Kraft Cardstock

Bazzill Raven Cardstock

Echo Park Paper Co Welcome Baby Boy - Sweet Dreams

Echo Park Paper Co Welcome Baby Boy - Boy Tags

Echo Park Paper Co Welcome Baby Boy - Little Ones Leaves

Echo Park Paper Co Welcome Baby Boy - Milestone Journaling Cards

Echo Park Paper Co Welcome Baby Boy - Element Sticker Sheet

2 Crafty title Totally Smitten

2 Crafty Foliage Set 5

2 Crafty Chevron Bits

2 Crafty Rainbow

Tim Holtz Layering Stencil

Distress Paint

Distress Oxide Ink