Today, we have our new monthly project sheet up over on the Bella Blvd blog. For our June project sheet, I worked with the Sunshine & Happiness collection.
You can view and download Bella's Sunshine & Happiness project sheet RIGHT HERE.
I had a ton of fun creating this layout. I've shared a few projects recently, that had accordian pinwheel flowers on them. But the ones on this layout were actually the first ones I had ever made. Which makes sense, because I do these layouts a month ahead of when we release the project sheets.
The patterned papers in the Sunshine & Happiness collection are so bright and colorful. I wanted them to really stand out on the layout, so I used my favorite grid paper, from the Family Dynamix collection, as the base of my page. Once I had a good idea of where my photos, title, and flowers would be, I sprayed a bit of orange mist to the top left corner of my page and the bottom right corner, just to add a little splash of color.
It's kind of hard to see, but I added some pink paint around the edges of my photos. I haven't done that in ages. Because I left a white border around my photos, after printing them, I wanted to help them stand out a bit against the white grid background paper. I just used my finger to swipe the paint around the edges, and I didn't try to make it neat and perfect.
I also took a few torn pieces of designer tape, folded them over the sides of the "on a summer afternoon" sticker and also my journaling strips, and then stapled them to secure the pieces.
Then there was the flowers. Like I mentioned, this was my first time making these, so I tried a few different widths on my paper strips, because I wasn't sure how big the flowers would be. I ended up using a fun mix of different size flowers.
After I made all of the flowers, I arranged them in the bottome left corner of the page, overlapping them as needed. I used lots of glue dots and pop dots to adhere them. Then I dug out a mix of stickers and chipboard pieces to add to the centers of each flower. If you happen to notice that I left the date off of that chipboard piece, just pretend that it's really there. I forgot to write the date on there, before taking these photos ;)
One thing I love to do when using the stickers from these collections, is to adhere them to scraps of cardstock and cut around them with scissors. I love to add stickers to my projects using pop dots, and this is an easy way to hide the stickines of the "sticker", and turn it into a die cut of sorts.
If you missed my little tutorial from a few weeks ago, you can find out how I created the accordian pinwheel flowers in THIS POST.
I love so many elements about this page. THe accordion flowers, the photo placement, the journaling, the colors and that grid paper that I must get my hands on...LOL!
Another great layout and RIGHT into my FAVE folder. Thanks Laura-you never disappoint with your work- such inspiration!
Posted by: Janet | June 11, 2012 at 08:45 AM
Fun LO! I love those pinwheel flowers.
Posted by: Carolyn | June 11, 2012 at 09:26 AM
Laura, your LOs are so bright and cheery; they make me feel like smiling! I absolutely LOVE what you did with stapling the tape to the sides of your journaling -such a great way to coordinate a page, or dress up some cardstock....definitely going to lift that idea! :)
Posted by: Caroline | June 11, 2012 at 11:44 AM
Lovely layout as always, I love the details such as staples ! TFS
Posted by: Karine | June 11, 2012 at 01:01 PM
This is one of my faves of yours! Love the cluster of rosettes!
Posted by: Kathy Martin | June 12, 2012 at 03:10 AM
thanks for the project sheet!
Posted by: Mandy Szeto | June 12, 2012 at 12:38 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAURA!!!!
Posted by: ana roat | June 12, 2012 at 03:03 PM
I love rosettes I really have to get back to making them!Awesome layout you really took perfect pictures!
Posted by: alice pace | June 12, 2012 at 04:29 PM
How fun this layout is, love love the cute pictures. Great job on the flowers, they came out so good. love the whole layout.
Posted by: dawn | June 13, 2012 at 12:31 PM
Laura, I love it when kids can just be kids and enjoy a fairly carefree life - just play! I'm so glad that your girls were wanting to go and enjoyed themselves, too!
I love the LO, of course, the colors and rosettes are so much fun! Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Ruth G | June 13, 2012 at 06:03 PM
Laura, I just love your layout. It's bright and happy, just like the pics. Thank you for the inspiration. I love your style. Take care. :)
Posted by: Kim Thomas | June 19, 2012 at 02:53 PM