Doodlebug Design Inc Blog: HELLO AGAIN JUST BE YOU LAYOUT

Thursday, August 17, 2023

HELLO AGAIN JUST BE YOU LAYOUT | with Lisa

If you've read my last blog post, you already know how much I love the Hello Again Collection. The gold details everywhere, the colors, the flowers... are just stunning! This week, I decided to go crazy with fussy cutting again... haha :)

There's this gorgeous Flutterby washi tape included in the collection. I was really in the mood to fussy cut them out and use a lot of them on a layout. So to start, I adhered a few strips of washi tape onto white printer paper and then I fussy cut out the butterflies.

For my background, I used the brightside striped paper. I cut out two stripes of each color, tore off the ends of each stripe, creating strips of different sizes. I also distressed them. Then I adhered them to my white cardstock, always placing the two stripes of the same color next to each other and leaving a white space between the colors.

I used my sewing machine to stitch a gold zig-zag line through the middle of each color. Then I splattered some gold and white paint all over the layout. I used a photo of myself and used a few pieces from the rest of the brightside paper to matte it. I then adhered it to the layout using foam tape.

As a title, I used one of the die cuts from the Chit Chat pack and I backed it with the black floral side of the cute calico paper, from the 6x6 paper pad. I adhered it using foam dots.

To embellish the layout, I used three Doodle-Pops and Shaker-Pops that represent things that I love. I placed them in a visual triangle.

Then I went ahead and adhered all my little butterflies. I only added a tiny bit of glue in the center of each butterfly to make sure the wings could be bent upwards and give all the butterflies a dimensional look. I hope you're inspired to use the Flutterby washi tape too, haha... fussy cutting is a super amazing way to relax... just so you know... ;) See you soon,