Guest DT - Agnus with Passionfruit Souffle!
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Hi my name is Agnus and I’m a 38 year old mumma of 3 gorgeous boys who
keep me on my toes and make life interesting the say the least ;) I have been
scrapping for around 9 years and love capturing all the little moments that
make up our daily lives and have become hooked on Project Life style of
scrapping, although I still love to create 12x12 pages. My scrapping style is
pretty simple and I have a bit of a weakness for patterned paper. I mainly use
clean lines and layers and always try to keep my photos as the main focus on my
pages. I like to finish things off with a bit of stitching and use
embellishment clusters to help tell the story and often make my own
embellishments to give my pages a hand made feel.
You can find me here:
My handmade embellishments: https://www.facebook.com/pages/scrAp-this/296550770459993
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I’ve been a happy subscriber
to the fabulous Polly! Pocket Life kits since the beginning and was very
excited to have the chance to play with the gorgeous Passionfruit Souffle scrapbooking kit this month. I
instantly fell in love with the beautiful combination of colours and patterns
in this kit, and because I mainly scrap boy pages, I was very happy to see that
even though the kit was filled with loads of pretty goodies it was still
perfect for creating boy pages!
Happy Little Moments
For my first layout I wanted to capture a moment of my youngest son busy
playing with his toys on our stairs. I love taking in the little details while
he plays and couldn’t resist taking a photo of his perfect little feet :)
I really like the subtle detail of wood grain papers and often use them
as a base for my layouts and thought the grey colours would make a good
contrast against the bright diagonal paper. I added a few strips of the thin
washi tape along side the pink stripe to help draw attention to the smaller
photo. The star paper was too good to pass up and so I cut up a few pieces on
the same angle as the diagonal stripe and stitched these in place.
You can’t go wrong with enamel dots and I really like how the white dots
pop against the other colours. I also extended the star pattern by gluing on a
few of the tiny sequin stars to the page.
I absolutely love the cool metal arrows included in the kit and used a
simple cross stitch to secure them to the page. I also used some of the bakers
twine in a similar cross technique to dress up the other arrow.
Our Family
My next layout features a snapshot of me with my family. I wanted a soft
feel for my page and chose the confetti dots and coral stripe papers because
they both have a nice creamy base and used a strip of the thin washi tape to
anchor the two patterns together.
I couldn’t wait to use the gorgeous sparkly gold enamel dots and added a
few drops of gold colour mist as well as some metallic gold stitching to tie it
all in.
I cut our a simple heart form the square of yellow gingham and backed it
with a vellum pocket filled with some of the tiny sequin stars to add some
interest to my cluster.
The typewriter chipboard was a perfect accent to add near my journaling,
and I used a Bohemian Typewriter font on my computer to print up my
journaling - I cut the strips slightly wider on the bottom so I would have room
to stitch them in place.
Say Cheese
Because I still had so many awesome products left over, I decided to
create another layout. I really wanted to make use of the bold polka dot and
the whimsical heart papers and combined the two for this page about my son and
his cousins striking a pose for the camera.
I started this page by spraying a white cardstock base with a bit of
seafoam coloured mist and stitched a 10” frame in the centre. Because I had
already used the reverse side of the polka dot paper for my first layout, I
used the cut out portion as a design element and filled in the missing section
with the heart paper.
I used the Simple Stories stickers to help tell the story and also to
add little pops of accent colour to create a flow across the page.
The little yellow tab sticker is attached to a small journaling card
with all the details from the day. I used baby powder to get rid of the
stickiness on the back of the sticker before attaching it onto the card and
tucking it in behind the large heart square.
Thanks for taking the time to check out how I have used this awesome
kit. I’d love to see how you have used your kits :)
4 comments
This is AWESOME, I love how you mixed the papers together and had such a different feel from one project to the next. Your details are the highlight, the stitching and little accents are so perfect. Super inspired by your projects Agnus!
ReplyDeleteThese layouts are fabulous. I love how you a dare to mix some of your patterned papers and use simple things like washi to bring it together. It works!! Love your pages!
ReplyDeleteI adore your pages Agnus. So beautiful. I love how you wrapped the arrow in bakers twine. Gorgeous!!
ReplyDeleteLOVE LOVE LOVE what you have done Agnus ♥
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