Happy

Emphasis On The Paper

Hi scrappers! With April comes the New Day collection from Dear Lizzy that I received in my Cherry Box from A Cherry on Top Crafts. I couldn’t wait to try out these products emphasizing fresh spring prints and pastel rainbows. The photos I used were taken at the Carlsbad flower fields where they had a giant blue chair you could take fun pictures with. Since I was so posed in these photos and clearly look like the photo op it was, I like the ideas of using the camera print from the Pretty as a Picture paper.

The paper I used is double sided and I knew I wanted to feature both sides so I cut it into three parts and used the smaller pieces on the edges with the camera print showing. The dark blue was a better contrast for my photos and I felt would have been too busy if I had them beneath the camera print. The paper I used to mat my photos was the Sizzix paper roll in Limoncello. The color paired nicely but I had to use some really strong adhesive dots since the paper curved dramatically after being rolled up in its tube.

It was really nice having so many products from the same collection because all the colors and themes matched and I could easily mix and match what I used. I used New Day chipboard as well as some Frames and Tags and some fake flowers I already had on hand. Lastly, I added my favorite embellishment to this page which was a circle of pastel rainbow brads.

This page was created for the Sketches in Thyme April challenge. I took a lot of liberties with this sketch since I didn’t have four vertical photos. Instead I used one horizontal and one vertical photo plus some tags and chipboard to fill the same space. I liked the two vertical stripes framing the page but didn’t add the additional shapes because the camera print was already so busy. To replicate the circle in the sketch, I used pastel brads spaced evenly apart which made for a simple, yet impactful embellishment.

That’s all for now. Join me next time as I continue to play with this fabulous new collection of products. You can find me on Instagram and YouTube @thescrapattack