Big Helper

Patterned Papers And Creative Titles

Hi everyone! I’m already back with another layout because there’s so many fun challenges on the internet for the month of September. I want to participate in more than one a week so let’s see how far I get!

This week I used some photos of my mom and a very fat cat named Ninja. He likes to sit on laps, especially if it’s inconvenient for the lap owner, and he’s so big that he doesn’t really fit anyways. I love his unimpressed expression in the second photo.

I started with some patterned kraft paper from The Shoppe on the Square stack from The PaperStudio. I layered over some blue paper from the Entirely Textures stack also by the Paper Studio and then cut up some leafy orange paper from Prima Marketing’s Rock Out Bro stack. Balancing crazy patterns with bold colors on this page was a little tricky. I had pulled some other papers initially that I ended up not using because it was just too much and my photos got lost in the shuffle.

Embellishments were kept to a minimum for a change, especially since I created a big title from some Sticks Tag Type circular stickers. I added brads to each sticker and threaded some red embroidery floss around them to make a banner with some tiny cat brads by Eyelet Outlet on each side. Some cat die cuts from The Paper Studio made the biggest impact and I added an orange paw print frame from Photo Play’s Cat Ephemera pack to keep with the theme. I like how the orange matches the other orange paper I used.

I only used one scrap from my left over paper stash on this page which was the yellow tiger stripe piece on the right. I try and use more each page before I drown in paper scraps but this time I created more new ones than I did use up old ones. Oh well.

This page was made for the September challenge at Kraft + Challenge. I really liked the bright colors in contrast to the neutral kraft. I didn’t use bird on my layout but I did keep an animal theme.

This page was made using Becky Fleck challenge 293 at A Cherry on Top Crafts. I turned the garland into my title and threw in some big silk flowers, other than that it’s pretty similar, right down to the ribbon trim in the bottom left corner.

That’s all for this week. Thank you for visiting you soon and I’ll see you all with another page for another challenge.