Always Together

Magenta And Gray

Hi everyone! This week’s page explores using decorative paper that already contains quite a few embellishments. Sometimes it can be hard to add elements of your own without covering up the good stuff that’s already there or making sure your added elements are in harmony with the rest of the page.

I used a piece of magenta paper with embossed stars from the DCWV Star Dust stack. In the photos, it looks more purple for some reason but in real life, it’s much more pink. I used paper from DCWV’s No Probllama stack to mat my photo and the layered on some random pieces of paper from my scrap stash. The floral paper with a dark gray background matched absolutely perfectly! I don’t even remember the original page I used it for but I’m glad I saved the small pieces that were left over. I finally cracked open some 49 Market Vintage Washi Tape in Lilac and added a couple of strips. I also used some die cuts from Kaiser Craft’s Violet Crush collection. A few brads and tiny tags complete the page.

I find the easiest way to work with pre-embellished paper is to find the part of it I would like to feature, in this case it was the gold stars. I then pulled items out of my stash and compared them both to the challenge color palette and the background paper to make sure the colors would be a good match. In this way, I was able to make the most of the existing embellishments while still being able to build upon them.

This page was created for the 1 2 3 Challenge Blog. I loved their sketch for February and some of the printed embellishments on my background paper seemed to match the sketch really well. I focused on the darker magenta color (obviously) and used the gray and orchid colors to accent. The words Always Together fit well for my photo because my cat Jupiter always wants to be around m husband and I, even if it’s just in the same room.

That’s all for now. Thank you for visiting and I’ll see you next time!