Find Joy In The Everyday

Fruits And Veggies And Muted Greens

Hello everyone! I hope you’re all having a good May. This week’s layout is a fun mix of avocado and teal tones and features a photo of my husband and I taken a few years back. Mustard flowers pop up every Spring in Southern California, turning entire hillsides an intense yellow green color. The flowers only last a couple of weeks before dying off. Since wildfires are getting more and more common, the local fire departments will often come out and cut down the brush near populated areas once it’s dry to decrease the danger of a blaze. My husband and I took advantage of the small window of times when the flowers were vibrant and went to a local hiking trail to get this shot. I happened to have a dress that matched!

I started with the avocado-colored geometric print paper. Since this was paper that was stored loosely and not in a stack, it had somehow gotten folded which resulted in a huge crease along the top. To disguise this, I added a strip of pale teal cardstock to hide the defect and ended up really like this design element in the end.

I had ordered a set of 24 washi tapes off of Amazon and while the rolls are small and not the best quality, I really like the house design and the way it looks on this page. I pulled out pieces from various ephemera packs that matched my color theme and ended up with a fruit and veggie motif without initially intending to. I especially like the lettuce and radish piece from 7 Gypsies Junk Journal Goodies and the pears from Prima Marketing’s Fruit Paradise Ephemera. Some dark teal banner stickers from the Happy Planner’s Dream Seeker book made for a nice touch.

I was invited to be a guest designer over at Sketches in Thyme for their May challenge. I was given this lovely sketch to work with. I used a gray paper frame by Recollections instead of a Polaroid frame and replaced the camera in the sketch with various ephemera. Rather than a traditional title and journaling, I used a cardstock pear and some text stickers instead which is a great trick if your handwriting isn’t very pretty like mine. A big thanks to Sketches in Thyme for letting me design for the month!

Thank you for visiting everyone! I’ll see you soon!