Colour Blocking to Use All the Embellishments

When the new Noteworthy collection from PinkFresh Studio arrives in your mailbox from Scrap Shotz - you find a way to use every cute embellishment...

There is nothing whimsical about this COVID-19 pandemic but I refuse to let my scrapbooker display the morose mood in the air - instead, I will design my pages focusing on the good things this has brought to our home and journal the hard stuff in some hidden way. 

With this in mind, I set out to use every cute embellishment I could from the Noteworthy collection using colour blocking.

I split my page into quadrants, sewed a bunch of times down the middle of the 4 quadrants, picked 4 colours that show up most on the collection and painted each section a different collection - then added every embellishment that matched that colour. 

I tried to use a few enamel dots, some of the stickers, and the puffy stickers in each quadrant to give a touch of texture. The chance to use little couches and potted plants and coffee mug puffies was to fun to pass up! 

I used the white alphas to add a COVID word that comes to mind in each quadrant and the little together piece from the layered stickers as my title. I love how it turned out - happy and bright! 

Looking to use up all those embellishments in a kit or collection, try colour blocking. You do not need watercolour paint to do it either - try just for 3x3 pattern papers, or strips of paper or circles and more. Simply pick a few colours and then, without overthinking, bring in every embellishment of that colour to match. 

Have fun! 

March Kit - Simple Stories I Am Layout #2

Hi there!

Today I'm sharing another layout made with the beautiful March Kit featuring the Simple Stories I Am collection.

As with all Simple Stories collections, it comes with cut apart sheets for pocket page scrapping or as embellishments.  I started this layout with this 4x6 card and used it as part of my title. I used some old Thickers from my stash to finish the title.   All the embellishments on this page are from the sticker sheet, diecuts and chipboard from the kit.

I had quite a long story to tell, but I didn't leave myself any room to journal directly on the page.  So, I made a journaling card from some patterned paper and tucked it in behind the 4x6 card.

For my second project, I needed a quick card for a friend's birthday and since I had the collection spread out aaallll over my desk, I decided to use the kit.  ;)

Once again, I started with a cut apart sheet as the base of the card, and used scraps as layers behind it.  My friend is a quilter, so all the pieces are machine stitched.  The layers are placed on a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2 " cardbase  piece of the Lagoon cardstock and embellished with stickers and diecuts from the kit.  The ribbon is from the January Kit.  The "Happy" is a sticker from the 4x6 Sticker Sheet set, as is the "sunshine".  I cut the word from one of the longer word phrases.  I never have a problem cutting an embellishment and only using part of it.  The "birthday" is from a scrap of black cardstock and a die from my stash.

Be sure to check out the store for this collection.  Not only is it beautiful, but it's chock full of stickers and diecuts and paper.  I can see myself using these supplies on may projects to come!

Thanks for looking!
Sylvie