Hi everyone! Heather Leopard <http://thespottedleopard.blogspot.com/> here and I'm so excited to be spending the entire month of August working with October Afternoon. They've always been an absolute favorite of mine so designing for them is a DREAM!
I received an incredible package of Daily Flash goodies to create with and immediately got to work planning out projects. Everything from layouts to Project Life-style pages to an altered item or two - I was ready to go! I thought I'd kick this off by showing how versatile the Daily Flash
collection can be by creating a 12x12 layout.
A Day in the Sun
Something kept pulling me back to the Summertime collection, specifically the Sunshine paper. I started with that as my initial inspiration and everything fell into place to create this layout about my youngest daughter posing by the art on the Galveston Seawall after a day at the beach.
Machine stitching makes it's appearance in oh, probably 90% of my projects and this one was no exception. I just couldn't resist accentuating the gorgeous sun rays with a few stitches here and there. I purposely trimmed the Sunshine paper down and adhered it to the white background. I then chose white stitching so that I could extend the rays subtlely onto the
white background.
After placing my photo on the page, the Memory Cards and Flash Blurbs were calling out to be used. I shuffled them around a bit and quickly realized that the photo and the cards just weren't popping off the rays. So, I used a strip from the B side of the paper, added in the Blue Skies paper and then added the cards back in until they fell into just the right places. I
added a bit of layering, a splash of embellishments and voila!, the layout really started coming together.
I made a little pocket for the "Summertime" Snap Caps card to peek out and added some hidden journaling. I purposely didn't add a title because I think the various cards do an excellent job on their own. It could be anything from Best Summer Ever, Dog Days of Summer, A Day In The Sun or any other fantastic summertime sentiments you see on the page.
I hope you enjoy this layout as much as I loved creating it! I'll be back again next Friday with more Daily Flash goodness. In the meantime, post any questions or comments below or visit my
blog<http://thespottedleopard.blogspot.com/> for more inspiration.
Supplies: Daily Flash Summertime collection: PP-1169 - Sunshine 12x12 paper, PP-1167 - Blue Skies 12x12 paper, DC-1172 - Memory Cards, PP-1165 - 6x8 Paper Pack, DC-1170 - Snap Caps, DC-1171 - Flash Blurbs, EM-1133 - Tin Pins