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Spring Pastels

Hi scrappers! This week I bring you another page using the Dear Lizzy New Day collection by Echo Park Papers that came in the April Cherry Box from A Cherry on Top. This is the perfect collection for Spring with their floral patterns and pretty pastels. I used a photo on this layout that was taken at beachside flower field. We had gotten a lot of rain that year so many places in Southern California were experiencing a super bloom. The flowers grew nearly right down to the sand and were so dense, you had to keep to the trail. I don’t think I’ve seen that same area bloom like that since.

I started with basic white cardstock because I know I was going to be mixing a lot of patterns. I cut a large rectangle of Echo Park Paper Company’s Beautiful Blooms paper and used the green side. I matted my photo with pale green cardstock, leaving thicker borders than what I normally do and then cut three long strips from Hand Picked and Bee Buddies papers and arranged them under my photo. I added a couple of New Day tags and stickers and used some baker’s twine to create four little pennant flags that matches the color palette of the page.

This page was created for Color, Stories, Inspiration’s April challenge. I used the following “evidence” inspirations as well as the provided color palette :

dots
flowers, leaves
banner
hearts
circular embellishments
string

This page was also created for Sketch N Scrap’s April challenge. I like the simplicity of the sketch because it allowed lots of room for interpretation. I used one photo instead of two and added plenty of small embellishments instead of one big one. I liked the opportunity it presented to use so many patterned papers.

That’s all for this week. Happy Easter to those who celebrate and I will see you all next week!