The September project sheet went up on the Bella Blvd blog last week, but I'm just now getting around to blogging it here. I was asked to work with the new Whatever Is Lovely collection for this month's layout, which goes hand in hand with the Illustrated Faith brand. While this collection is certainly faith based and created for religious projects and even bible journaling fans ... it can also be used for everyday layouts, which is how I wanted to show it being used.
I knew that I wanted to use part of the chevron patterned paper, with the gorgeous color combo and thick stripes. I was originally going to have my strip going across the top of the page. But the awesome white ruled pattern is the backside to the chevron pattern. With the direction I cut my strip of the chevron pattern, the ruled lines would have been going the wrong way (from how I wanted them) across the page. So I changed up my plan, and adhered the strip along the left side of the page.
I love the ruled pattern for backgrounds, and knew right away that I would use a large piece of that on this page. I didn't have my title planned when I fussy cut the "lovely" word from Praiseworthy patterned paper. I mainly picked it because it was one of the words that wasn't cut off at all, and I knew I could work it into my title.
I cut the "whatever is" from the Art Prints patterned paper, and added it right along with the "lovely" brush script word for the first part of my title. There are lots of great sayings and words on the Art Prints patterned paper, but I was aiming to stick to things that weren't necessarily faith based for this layout.
I used the white Amorie chipboard alphas and the yellow alpha stickers from the Treasures & Text sticker sheet to complete my title. I don't usually use any pen work on my layouts. Not sure why not, because I think it can look really fun. But I wanted the yellow alpha stickers to stand out a bit more, so I drew some rough pen lines around the outsides of the stickers.
I actually had this old photo of Alyssa printed and laying around, and it matched the papers so well, so I decided to go with it. Otherwise, I probably would have spent forever and a day looking for a photo for this page.
I choose a few of the other patterned papers to layer under my photo, cutting each one a bit bigger than the one before it. I machine stitched around the edges of each paper, and then layered them all together to adhere to the page.
To finish off the page, I embellished it with stickers from both the Treasures & Text sticker sheet and the Little Bits sticker sheets. Since I used a few of the star stickers, I decided to skip the enamel dots this time, and sprinkled some of the black enamel stars from the DooDads pack.
You can download the step-by-step September project sheet, complete with full supply list and detailed instructions, RIGHT HERE.
Another great layout; loving the large title. The best thing is that Alyssa's facial expression takes over the layout. Oh what a face!
Posted by: SandraA | September 14, 2015 at 10:42 AM
oh my goodness Alyssa's face--hilarious! SUPER cute page!!
Posted by: Diana | September 15, 2015 at 01:35 PM