Hey everyone! I've got a new layout up over at Kerri Bradford Studio today. Over the years, I've been known to frame layouts for family and friends to display in their homes. My parents recently put in a request for an updated layout for one of these frames that hangs in their hallway. When my mom brought the frame over, I was surprised to see that the old layout was well over 15 years old. Crazy how tiny the girls were in the photos.
I knew I wanted to keep the new layout simple and clean, with one great photo. The first photo that came to mind is one that I took of the girls this past Thanksgiving. I printed it as a 5x7" pic and set out to make a simple layout that would tie in with their home decor.
I started by die cutting a white cardstock floral background, using a cut file from Kerri's Background Basics kit. I lightly spritzed the background with tan and pink misting spray, before adhering it to an aqua patterned paper from Heidi Swapp.
My parents have a lot of aqua, mauve, and browns in their home decor, so I knew I wanted to stick to those colors when picking out my patterned papers. I matted my photo twice, using a few patterned papers from Basic Grey and Pebbles. I kept the embellishments simple, by adding some coordinating buttons to the center of the flowers on the background cut.
I went digging around in Kerri's kits for a good title/sentiment to tie in with the photo, and settled on "happy life", from Kerri's Grateful kit. I die cut it three times from a brown woodgrain patterned paper, adhering the pieces together to add a little thickness to the words.
I love that it's a simple and clean looking layout, that will look perfect framed and hanging on my parent's wall to show off their granddaughters.
And in case anyone asks, because I have a feeling someone will - the frames are incredibly old, and were custom made from a frame company my mom used at the time. I bought an insane amount of these 12x12" frames back in the day, and have used them a ton. I still have many of them in my own house, but have spray painted most of them black to match my decor better. I know there are other options for 12x12" frames out there, so I wouldn't think something similar would be too hard to find.
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