Real Life Adventures

Today's layout features a paper from the My Mind's Eye On Trend 2 collection by Jen Allyson and Project Life die-cut shapes from the Explore collection. The colors and gold accents on the paper and the die-cut shapes paired perfectly together.

I used an 8.5 x 11 inch piece of gold foil cardstock and adhered the white side of the paper to the top 3/4 of the gold foil cardstock. I found a coordinating striped paper in my stash and adhered it to the bottom of the gold foil cardstock.

I took the pink side of the paper and turned it on its side and adhered it to the dark green cardstock. I cut thin strips of the gold foil cardstock and adhered them to the edges of the pink paper. I used my 12 x 12 Tonic guillotine trimmer to cut off the pink paper that was hanging over the edge of the green cardstock.

The 8.5 x 11 inch block of gold cardstock was glued to the center of the layout. I placed the photo in the lower left corner of this block. The Project Life die-cut shapes were placed in the upper left and lower right corners of the layout as well as in the middle of the page.

I created a title using the Happy Birthday font downloaded from https://www.dafont.com/. The font did not stand out well against the white paper, so I added a strip of dark green cardstock behind the title before adhering it to the page. I also cut a butterfly from my Cricut in three different sizes and added one to each of the embellishment areas. To add dimension to the page, I popped up a few of the die-cut shapes using thin foam tape and glued only the center of the butterflies to the page.

This has been one of my favorite papers to use for nature photos. I was sad to have used up most of it on this layout. The leftover scraps will be used to create journal cards and accents for a Project Life page that will contain more photos and memories of this day.

Real Life Adventures

Supplies:

My Mind's Eye On Trend 2 Paper
Project Life Die-Cut Shapes- Explore
Recollections Gold Foil Cardstock
Dark Green Cardstock
Cricut Butterfly (#MA7A34CA)
Font - Happy Birthday (https://www.dafont.com/happy-birthday-4.font)
Foam Tape

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