Here & Now Layout by Terri

The beautiful Hopes & Dreams kit is full of beautiful pastel colours. I was immediately drawn to the clouds present through out the kit and this was the focus of my first project.

To create the background I dug in to my stash and used a cloud stencil from Peartree Cutfiles and co-ordinating coloured distress oxides.

I wanted to create a large fringed cloud for the centre of my page so I copied the shape of the cloud die cut from the kit and enlarged it on a piece of scrap card. Then cut strips of patterned paper and used my fringing scissors along each one. I layered the strips along the cloud shape overlapping them so only the frige sections were visible and then trimmed back to the cloud shape.

I also cut two further cloud shapes from the soft circular patterned paper, distressed the edges and added a doodled border. These three clouds then created the basis of my layout, layered on top of the Distress Cloud background. I added a few of the vellum clouds to add different textures to the page.

I fussy cut one of the notebook pages to create a matt for my photo. Then added die cuts and stickers to add embellishment around the clouds. The finish off I cut the title from the cut apart card and pulled an ampersand from my stash.

Thank you for joining me on the blog today. Don’t forget to check out the Lollipop Box Chat group over on facebook for further inspiration and to share your makes.

Happy Crafting!

Terri x