Hey everyone! I've got a new layout up at Kerri Bradford Studio today. I just love these photos my daughters and I took on Mother's Day, and knew I wanted to get them on a layout right away. When I sat down to work on my next layout for Kerri, I knew it was the perfect time to I collaged my photos together using a template from Kerri's Half Pints #1 kit, and got to work designing the page around my photo collage.
I wanted to keep my background simple, to let the colors in my photos and patterned papers stand out, so I went with a white-on-white die cut background. I die cut a heart background from white cardstock, using a cut file from the Heart Backgrounds kit, and adhered it to another sheet of white cardstock to create the base of my page. I spritzed the entire page with mists in colors that coordinated with my patterned papers, to add just a bit of color to the background.
When deciding on titles for most of my layouts, I start by just browsing thru Kerri's files within my Silhouette library, and I'll usually come up with several options to choose from. For my title on this layout, I combined the "love you" (taken from a freebie "love you mom" cut file) and "girls" (taken from the All In The Family kit), and die cut each from patterned paper.
While the patterned papers I picked out for this layout are new (all from Shimelle's Little By Little collection), the embellishments I picked out to add to the page are old. I had fun digging thru my stash of embellishments from years and years ago, and pulling out some fun pieces to finish off the page.
I always loved these plastic flowers from Making Memories, and I remembered that I used to add a flattened metal rimmed tag to the center, finished off with a button. I thought that would be fun to do for this layout, and dug around for some flowers that would match. I have tons and tons of the metal rimmed tags, but turns out I didn't have many smaller sized ones. I had to use a few that had the paper inside the metal rim (like an actual tag, as opposed to just the rim), and take out the paper.
I also added two pieces of Magic Mesh to the sides of the layout. Such an old product. If some of you aren't sure what Magic Mesh is, it's the pink dotted piece stapled to the right side above. I always loved the dotted mesh, but still have lots of the regular mesh as well. Adds a fun texture without much fuss.
And a totally random fact. This had to be the hardest layout ever to photograph. I tried three different times before getting some semi-decent pics. I want to say it had something to do with all of the white, but I've had plenty of layouts with lots of white. So that doesn't make much sense. The girls and I look super white, and while I might be white, my girls are definitely dark skinned ;)
so fun!!! i cannot believe how much the girls have grown
seeing them change over the years through your layouts
Posted by: mandyb | July 06, 2017 at 11:40 PM