Hello!

It’s Gail here to share with you the layouts I created using the May ‘Palm Tree’ kit.
I only wanted to add a few yellow accents as a pop of colour.
 

I first trimmed the word from the circle and machine stitched it onto my layout. I layered my title over the two vellum polaroid frames for extra interest.

Good morning friends,

Happy long weekend to you all. Hope you're all enjoying a bit of sunshine where you are! I'm here today to share my Week 19 Project Life spread, using the stunning Tropical Twilight (PL) & Trade Winds (Embellishment) kit from May. I think these kits are my favourite to date (although it's a tight race with the March kit!!). So bright, and cheery & perfect for my Week 19. And full. Jam packed full! So far, I've managed to do 2 x 2 page PL spreads & a layout, with PLENTY more left. I'm thinking I might make a card gift set. Anyway, onto Week 19!



This was the week of Mothers Day, which for us this year meant the Mothers Day classic. For once, I was able to grab, and use all the pink stuff in the kit!!!! Because my photos were quite bright and full of all sorts of colours, I decided to add some white base cards into the spread to tone it done a little. I went through all the papers, began cutting strips to use, and all of a sudden a city scape was born! Suited perfectly because of our trip to the city on Mother's Day!

So, looking more closely at the LHS


It's a toss up for me whether the Amy Tan wood veneers, or the Heidi Swapp embellishments were my favourite things on the kit! I just love those small triangles & couldn't stop myself using them everywhere! Our week really was a very happy week, so I wanted to highlight that on the Title card.

Hi there Polly! Peeps!!

I'm so excited to be here today with my first post as an official DT member *polishes DT badge*

I thought I'd whip up a cute layout using the May Palm Tree kit. SUCH lovely colours, and who doesn't love pretty colours, gorgeous embellishments and fun alphas? Ruth always does such a rockstar job putting these kits together!

So here's my page:


I went in with a few spray mists (gold and pink from Heidi Swapp), and did some misting, "drippage" and splatters. For the "drippage", I sprayed the mist, while holding the patterned paper up, then added some water that had been mixed with a little perfect pearls, (and sprayed that too)

Once that was dry (heat tool to the rescue!) I got my photo, and laid it on the paper, then proceeded to add smaller-than-the-photo sized pieces of patterned paper from the kit. I folded them up on the edges, changed the sizes of each piece, and even did a couple of strips towards the bottom in the grey diagonal stripe (you can only see it peeking out the bottom in the photo) and that gorgeous dark navy blue paper.

Then I added my embellies tucked all over the page, and I cut up the acrylic tag, to use the bottom half (with the quote) at the top of my page, and made it into a tag-top, to tuck in behind the other tags I hand-cut.


Here are a couple of close-up shots

The gold will dry better than the splatters are showing here, I took the shot not long after they'd been added, so they still showed that funny little ghost-ring around them.


For that little LOVE LOVE embellishment, I cut the bottom strip of that paper off, and though you can't see it, the pink LOVE piece actually only shows about 1/3 of the word (the pattern runs off the bottom of the paper). By tucking it in behind the green, I get to use it without it looking weird.

I love using up every little centimetre of paper that I can. By not wasting a whole LOVE word (and therefore taking up more of the paper), I've saved myself a huge chunk of paper, that I'll be able to use on another layout.


As you can see here, those two aqua/black tags, are handcut, and I used the bottom couple of centimetres of that patterned paper again. I simply trimmed a strip about 3cm high (along the total length of the bottom of the page), and by flipping one over, I get the mirrored effect with the colours.  Again, by tucking these in behind other pieces of patterned paper, I've managed to give the effect of a whole tag being there, when really it's just a few centimetres.

Even the hot-pink border piece around the left and top, isn't an entire piece of 12 x 12.  I cut a border (like a big letter L), then attached that on to a piece of plain white cardstock that I've used for my base, before adding the starburst background paper. (I also use the white cardstock because it helps my main background paper to sit flat, after all that misting and drippage made it curl up and warp).

Well, that's it for me today! I hope you like! It's always great when I can get a whole layout using very little patterned paper, just by being a bit crafty with how I cut it and position it on the paper.

See you again soon! Can't wait to see what you all make from this month's kits. They're seriously awesome.

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Happy Sunday everyone, Lauren here! I hope that you are all enjoying the weekend and getting in some crafty time! This month you are all going to get sick of the sight of me - not only will I be working on some Project Life creations, but I am also filling in on the traditional scrapbook front while the gorgeous Manda is having a well deserved break.

Today I thought that I would take one photo and use it two ways! One of the joys (if there are in fact any joys) of being so far behind in my scrapping (I'm up to … cough… February... cough) is that when this month's kits came I knew that it would be perfect to scrap a cute Valentines Day pic. The kits were so awesome and all of the embellishments went perfectly so I thought I would create two layouts using the same black and white photo. I used the Palm Tree kit - which is jam packed full of awesome goodies!

Lately I have been experimenting a lot with mists so the stencils that were included with the kits were perfect, plus the love heart went so well with the Valentine photo. I really loved the pink and orange from the Sprinkled with Love - So In Love paper by Alison Kreft so I decided to use that as my base colours. I used white card stock and lay down the stencil and misted, first with the orange and then with the pink - moving the stencil to different spots on the page. It created a great background.

I then punched out hearts from the orange and pink parts of the paper, along with hearts from the vellum overlays. I then pulled out some of the heart stickers and veneer hearts from the embellishment kit to create a heart sprinkle effect across the page. For the title I cut out love from the paper and then layered the love veneer embellishment over the photo. I am so happy with this layout!


Now, onto the second way with the same photo (by this point I was also sick of looking at our faces!). I absolutely love the look of layers that so many people are working with at the moment, so I decided to go down that path. I knew what I wanted to title the piece - 'You Make Me Happy' - there were so many use embellishments in the Pink Paislee Hello pack that reflected rain and sunshine, plus the gorgeous D'Lish flair and the Amy Tangerine Happy veneer. Love!

So then it was a matter of playing around with the layers and the embellishments - I don't now about you but this is often the process that takes the longest amount of time! What goes where! The joys of being a perfectionist hey? I even used one of the vellum bags that our embellishments came with. I also pulled out my gelatos and drew clouds on the grey card stock to really draw out the 'when skies are grey' part of the theme. So much fun! I will definitely be using the gelatos more often.

So there you have it lovelies - one photo, two ways. It is amazing how different two layouts can be! While there are no main kits left this month as they are all sold out, there are some extra bonus kits available to purchase, so head on over and pick one up! Also make sure that you show us all of the great pages that you are creating with this month's kits - head over to our Facebook Page or show us on Instagram using the hashtag #pollyscrap. Can't wait to see what you make. I'll be back soon with more creations. Stay crafty, L xx.