I'm absolutely loving the Studio Calico Daydream Believer kit... I've made 3 layouts so far. This Dear Lizzy line from American Crafts is pretty awesome and I have lots of pictures that work well with it which I love. I really wanted to play tonight, so I pulled it out again.
Lately I've been feeling less than happy with some of my layouts. I *like* all of them, but I don't love them. So before I started, I went through a huge pile of my layouts and sorted them by how much I liked them. Then I kind of went through the ones I liked the least and noted what it was I didn't like about them. Then for the ones I loved and really liked, I noted the things they had in common. I quickly realized that there are a few things that I do or use on my layouts that kind of define my style and what I love. So tonight, I decided to stick true to that list and see how it worked.
I loved it. LOVED. it.
See what I mean about the papers matching so well? It's mostly from the new Dear Lizzy Neapolitan line and I just love it (the pink is a Pebbles paper I added). The flower center are some fun epoxy stickers - I used my Cameo to make the flowers to kind of match the 3D flower embellishments in the line (I didn't buy them... I knew I could probably make something similar.)
I added some old dictionary pages, trims and punched leaves to the flowers. I misted the Pink Paislee mistable trim from the kit with a rose Tattered Angels mist.
The title is some Thickers (Hardcover) surrounding the letter card that came in the kit - the fonts matched great... the size is a bit off, but I like it anyway.
The My Mind's Eye banner trim came in an add-on that I didn't get... I happened to have it in my stash however, so I added it - I like the effect.
I really love how this turned out, and it feels great to feel like I'm back to my own style. Hopefully more to come :)
P.S. - forgot to mention that I based the layout on a sketch from the Hambly blog that I really loved.
