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Monday, July 31, 2023

It's the Little Things with Simple Stories It's the Little Things by Fiona Johnstone

Hello everyone

This weeks share is with the beautiful Simple Stories Collection - The Little Things,
which is also the title for my page! 

The Little Things


For this layout I started with my design of layer up the papers with a focus on the red and greens of the range. I've used a mix of embellishments on my main cluster - from the Simple Stories sticker sheet , I've add a Pinkfresh Chipboard Flair, some Green Tara cherryblossoms and 2Crafty chipboard foliage. 


To soften up the dark colours I went with a white cardstock base and  while choosing embellishments I found these cute long floral stickers from the Sticker Book and this inspired my border. I've used the stickers on either side, some of the smaller individual flowers for the corners and some stamping stitches across the top and bottom. 




Further clusters with a shipping tag from the Tag elements paper with some red twine and some cute stickers from the book. Love the little word stickers to add some journaling to the layout and for my title. 


Thanks for visiting
See you next week
Fiona
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Products:

Simple Stories The Little Things - Choose Joy
Simple Stories The Little Things - Happy Life
Simple Stories The Little Things - Perfect Moments
Simple Stories The Little Things - Tag Elements
Simple Stories The Little Things - Sticker Book
Pinkfresh Studio Life Right Now Flair
2Crafty Chipboard Foliage Set 11
Green Tara Cherryblossoms - Red & White

Monday, July 24, 2023

Traveling Together with 49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere collection by Fiona Johnstone

Hello everyone

Back with another 49&Market layout with the amazing Everywhere Collection.
 Still have lots of paper and embellishments even though I have created so many layouts. Great value!

Traveling Together


For this layout I have focused on the blues and pinks again, perfect match to our outfits and the view of Lake George. 

I've started with one of the base papers from the Collection pack and backed it with the darker blue from the Essentials pack before adding some torn papers around my photo. 

Next I have fussy cut some of the elements from the cover sheet of the Collection Pack and teamed them up with some chipboard and ephemera from the collection to make my clusters:


I've backed the geotag with some patterned paper - matching up the postage stamp print from the collection pack. Next I have used some rub-ons to add some extra detail to the background paper. The gorgeous bubbles and baubles add the perfect finishing touch.


and finishing off with a large rub-on for my title - perfect and so easy to apply!


Thanks for visiting
See you next week
Fiona
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Products Used:

49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Collection Pack 12x12
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Coloured Foundations Pack
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Chipboard Set
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Ephemera Bits
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Wishing Baubles and Bubbles

Monday, July 17, 2023

It's a Sister Thing with Uniquely Creative Sweet Magnolia Collection by Fiona Johnstone

Hello everyone

New layout this week with the new Uniquely Creative Sweet Magnolia collection:
It's a Sister Thing

Love the colours in this collection, they are just stunning!! I've used some pics of my sister and I from a recent wedding we attended, lots of fun and a few pics so I combined these and printed them all in one square. 

I've chosen a very pretty background paper and teamed this up with matching floral paper and a light blue paper before adding a doily and lots of flowers from the Creative Cuts pack, as well as some small word phrases.


A cute clock from the Creative Cuts pack and a piece of film strip from 49&Market:


And the perfect title can always be found with 2Crafty Chipboard - It's a Sister Thing. I've inked this and added some shimmer with the Uniquely Creative shimmer pen. 


Thanks for visiting
See you next week

Fiona
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Products Used:

Uniquely Creative Sweet Magnolia paper -  Wish Come True
Uniquely Creative Sweet Magnolia paper - The Good Life
Uniquely Creative Sweet Magnolia paper - Wonderful Day
Uniquely Creative Sweet Magnolia Creative Cuts
Uniquely Creative Shimmer Pen
2Crafty Chipboard title - It's a Sister Thing
49&Market Colour Swatch Blossom Acetate Film Strips
Doily

Monday, July 10, 2023

Unplugged with 49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere collection

Hello everyone

Another share with 49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere for you today:

Unplugged



For this page I have used the Foundations paper as my base and teamed it up
 with some rubons from an older 49&Market collection before layering up papers
 from the Everywhere collection pack. 


Above you can see the little floral rub-on before my cluster made with a mix of Everywhere chipboard and wishing Bubbles & Baubles as well as butterflies from the 49& Market Gardenia collection and some 49&Market flowers. I've used the same mix for the cluster below:


I made a cute little cluster to balance the layout on the bottom right mixing some Everywhere collection with the Gardenia butterflies 


and finishing my layout with an ephemera title from an older 49&Market collection - Take a Hike ephemera. 


Thanks for visiting
See you next week
Fiona
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Products Used:

49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Collection Pack 12x12
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Coloured Foundations Pack
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Chipboard Set
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Ephemera Bits
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Wishing Baubles and Bubbles
49&Market Spectrum Gardenia Laser Cut out Butterflies
49&Market Flowers - Royal Posies - Mango

Monday, July 3, 2023

Happy Days with Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days by Fiona Johnstone

Hello everyone

Final share with Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days this week.
A quick and easy page as I have been busy finalising kits for retreat!

Happy Days


Loving this background paper for quick layouts! I was able to just use up my leftover papers for this page and layer them under the photo before hitting up the ephemera packs to embellish my page.


Flower clusters from the Floral Ephemera pack


And then a mix of stickers and die-cut ephemera to finish my page:


My title is from the die-cut ephemera range, just perfect!
I finished off with assorted butterflies from the die-cut ephemera pack.


Thanks for visiting
See you next week
Fiona
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Products Used:

Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days - Juicy Fruit
Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days - Flutterby
Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days - Little Blossom
Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days - Lush Blooms
Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days - 6x12 Accessory Sheet
Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days - Floral Ephemera
Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days - Die-Cut Ephemera

Monday, June 26, 2023

Amazing Day with Cocoa Vanilla Happy Days
Fiona Johhnstone

Hello everyone

Back with some more Cocoa Vanilla love for this layout using the Happy Days collection

Amazing Day


This striped paper was the PERFECT match for the sunrise in this photo, so I enlarged my photo to a 5x7 so it was more in line with the colours, and backed it with the cool words paper. I love how the words paper has some little stars and hearts so you don't need to add anything at all!

I've added a couple of extra bits of patterned paper under the stripes before adding my embellishments using a mix of the ephemera packs and the accessory sticker sheet. 


I've added some hearts and dots from an older Paige Taylor Evans puffy stickers thickers set to my clusters:


 I finished my page with the perfect 2Crafty title  - Amazing Day which I have inked in two tones to again match the paper and the sunrise in orange and yellow. 

Thanks for visiting
See you next week
Fiona
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Products Used:

Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days  - Definitive paper
Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days -Sunshine Lollipops
Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days - Little Blossom
Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days - Flutterby
Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days - Diecut Ephemera
Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days - Floral Ephemera
Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days 6x12 Accessory Sticker Sheet
2Crafty Chipboard - Amazing Day

Monday, June 19, 2023

Oh the Places We'll Go with 49&market Vintage Artistry Everywhere collection by Fiona Johnstone

Hello everyone

Another layout with the 49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere collection, focusing on the pinks and blues from a recent trip to Canberra:

Oh the Places We'll Go


For this layout I have gone with multi photos, adding a few paper layers behind as well as some ephemera bits and these cool filmstrips!  Teamed up with some more ephemera and some Green Tara flowers. 


Love this cute 2Crafty chipboard Hot Air Balloon which I have inked with pink and blue inks and some gesso to tie in with my papers. A doily helps the ephemera title to stand out.  


Thanks for visiting
See you next week

Fiona
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Products Used:

49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Collection Pack 12x12
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Coloured Foundations Pack
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Chipboard Set
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Ephemera Bits
2Crafty Chipboard Hot Air Balloon
Green Tara CherryBlossoms Pale Pink and White
49&Market Color Swatch Blossom Acetate Filmstrips

Monday, June 12, 2023

Go See Do with 49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere collection by Fiona Johnstone

Hello

Another layout today with 49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere collection. This layout focuses on the greens and orange in the collection for my waterfall photo:

Go See Do



The background paper paper is simply stunning, ready to go with all the mixed media done. I have mounted it onto some orange foundations paper before adding some paper layers from the main collection pack. 

I did add one thing to my background - the big words. How cool are these rubons? Seriously so easy to use and really pop on the page! They are the album rub ons. 


With my large rub-ons as a major design feature of the page I have focused my clusters around my photo. I have used a mix of ephemera and chipboard from the collection. I've added a little rub on to the plain journaling circle to tie it in with the backround. 


Title from the chipboard collection and I've finished with the bubbles and baubles. 


Thank for visiting
See you next week

Fiona
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Products Used:
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Collection Pack 12x12
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Coloured Foundations Pack
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Albums Rub Ons 6x8
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Chipboard Set
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Ephemera Bits
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Wishing Baubles and Bubbles

Monday, June 5, 2023

Here we Are with 49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere Collection by Fiona Johnstone

Hello everyone

Very excited to share some pages over the next couple of weeks using the fabulous Everywhere Collection by 49&Market.
Love the colours and perfect as I've been doing lots of weekend and day trips!

Here we are


How good are these background papers? Perfect and easy to team up with some of the other papers from the collection. I have added some of the awesome rub-ons to my background too, on this close up you can see the small compass next to the Love this View chipboard piece and also the larger Go See Do words that went on so smoothly, especially over my torn paper layers. I've also added some rub-ons to my orange ephemera circle. Very versatile!


Here you can see more rub-ons used - the top left map piece, another compass and the Exploring text. I've also mixed my ephemera and chipboard here, giving my word a little frame. 


The ephemera also has some great titles that are the perfect addition to the page and then I have use the fun Wishing Baubles for a great finishing touch!


Thanks for visting
See you next week

Fiona
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Products Used:
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Collection Pack 12x12
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Coloured Foundations Pack
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Albums Rub Ons 6x8
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Chipboard Set
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Ephemera Bits
49&Market Vintage Artistry Everywhere - Wishing Baubles and Bubbles

Monday, May 29, 2023

Good Times with Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days by Fiona Johnstone

Hello everyone

Back with another layout created using the stunning Happy Days collection from Cocoa Vanilla - I just love the colours in this collection:

Good Times


Love this colour combo, it is just gorgoeus! For this layout  wanted to stick to these two main colours and use a white background but with a bit of distress ink of masking and splatters to add a bit of interest to the background! I've used a Vicki Boutin Stencil from the Fernwood collection, then added some splatters in two different Distress Oxides. 


Again lots of flowers from the Floral Ephemera pack - so many in this pack! And teamed with some word stickers from the 6x12 Accessory Sticker Sheet and the chipboard from the Alpha pack.


and of course, finishing again with these fab alphas!


Thanks for visiting
See you next week
Fiona
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Products Used:

Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days paper - Little Blossom
Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days paper - Flutterby
Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days paper - Sunshine Lollipops
Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days Floral Ephemera
Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days Accessory Sticker Sheet 6x12
Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days Chipboard Title Stickers
Distress Oxides - Seedless Preserves
Distress Oxides - Peacock Feathers
Vicki Boutin Fernwood Stencil
Vicki Boutin Foundations Paper