Neat and Crafty: Echo Park

Hi there,

Today I'm sharing a a few layouts my first layout is about my scrap space

Nothing better than a clean desk ready to scrap on..

I started with white cardstock, then fussy cut those big arrow lines out as they were a bit big to cut out with my paper trimmer . Then using my sewing machine I add some machine stitching along the edges

Then next I add some of that lovely plus sign patterned paper behind my photo and some to the left hand side of my layout

I like to cluster my embellishments around my photo and sometimes in one corner to give extra dimension and texture to the layout

I add a cure paper clip on the left of my photo and underneath that I put a little quote

Where the magic happens ,I've tucked tags and little bits in behind to give it dimension and colour

And then I've added my title

For my second layout

It's my take on this months challenge

I chose stamping, embossing powder, cardstock

I started by being inspired by the collection and drawing a few flowers and a swan

That I turned into a fut files

I backed my flowers on the light purple cardstock and the leaves on the light green and adding rhinestones and chipboard to the centres of the flowers

I pop some of the flowers up on double sided foam tape and backed the swan on the dark purple cardstock

And did the same for the swans wing and popped it up to give it that 3D look

Then I matted my photo on some pretty flower patterned paper and tucked it under the swan and flowers

Then using some vellum I stamped and used colour blast bling gold embossing powder and embossed it and add it underneath the top left hand corner of my photo layers