Paper Issues Layout Share and Process Video

by Daisie - 6:30 PM

Hello my scrappy people! I have a few layouts today that were created for Paper Issues Facebook challenges. One is for February and one is for March. I've decided to combine the layouts I create for Paper Issues into one post to make it easier on me.

This first layout was created for the February Cut It Up challenge. I do not own a die cutting machine (boohoo). So I have begun to find ways to use cut files. For this month, I used tracing paper and traced the hearts onto a piece of white cardstock. I prepped the white cardstock with some gold Heidi Swapp Color Shine and some Frozen Lake Glimmer Mist from Tattered Angels. I then pierced the paper around each of the hearts and hand-stitched most in white thread and a few in gold. Here is the layout:

I used a piece of a cut apart sheet from Maggie Holmes Bloom to make the title card and the fringe layer. The bow is handmade from a Craft Smith Gold Noir paper. The You & Me flag is October Afternoon. I didn't do a lot of embellishing because I didn't want to take away from the hearts. The whole layout is matted on a We R Memory Keepers Wildflower paper.

The second layout I created was fro the March Paper Issues Sketchy Saturday challenge. I used a free cut file from the Paper Issues shop to create the floral embellishments. Again I used tracing paper. I then used an X-acto knife to cut it out. I back the areas with scraps of paper. I used some yellow streamers to created a textured background.

I used a lot of scraps on this layout! The only thing that isn't is the background cardstock and the floral layer. I used a 12x12 sheet of Crate Paper Hello Love paper and cut some strips to layer. I followed the sketch pretty closely for this. Here is the sketch: