Ally- Month 4

 Sharing a layout with you that was inspired by Shimelle’s class Layer on Layer on Layer. I am taking this class with my fellow members at Simple Scrapper throughout the year and excited to finish the first assignment!

This layout is another from Ally’s baby album. 

The assignment was to select a challenging background paper. Shimelle’s was a photo realistic paper, but after searching my stash I didn’t find any that fit the bill for photos I had on hand. 

When I ran across this floral paper from We R Memory keepers, I knew it would be perfect for this challenge. It is part of a paper pad. I had purchased it because of the versatility of the other papers in the pad and I do think I had any intention of using this paper, as a full background anyway.

I went to town layering, trying to hit different textures. Ally’s clothes have a color scheme that was popular back in 2009 (one of Maddie’s originally). I had found an old S.E.I kit in my stash that was from this time and the colors were a perfect    match. 

One of the SEI papers had boxes that had different little girl sentiments. I cut many of them out and placed them as a triangle around the page.

I found the circle title die cut, that coordinates with the other baby album layouts and placed it on the page. 

To repeat the white die cut look, I decided to use the same white card stock to cut the hearts. The confetti of hearts that were made in die cutting we used in threes in all areas of embellishments.

To add a different texture, I used some enamel shaped hearts to sprinkle around each cluster.

I created a cluster on the right side of the title as Shimelle had in her example.

Last step I found an old Technique Tuesday/Ali Edwards baby stamp set and stamped three sentiments around the page. Then used the heart stamp in that set to sprinkle a few more hearts around the clusters.

This page isn’t my usual style with the background paper and color scheme, but I think it makes a lovely addition to Ally’s baby album.

Hope to share more layout from this class soon! Thanks for stopping by!