Hi Everyone,

This is my first blog post for you all and I’m excited to share my this project with you.

I’ve been wanting to scrap a photo of my niece for a few months and the My Secret Love Collection fits perfectly.

I love the muted colours in this collection, as well as the floral and butterfly details.

To start I used Paper 06 as my background. I really love the frame of this sheet with the floral designs at the sides.

 Sheet 12 is made up of vertical strips from all the other sheets in the collection. I cut six of these strips, then fussy cut around to add to the background sheet. 

First, I used the Turbo Precision Glue Pen to hold the sheets in place.

To add more decoration, I also used by sewing machine and used different stitch types on each strip. To add dimension, I lifted the edges of the sheets, you can see the effect below. 

The collection comes with a set of dies, I used the one from the Labels Mini Die Set and cut out four pieces on tracing paper.

I love the effect tracing paper has on a layout. It’s cheap to use as well as adding a delicate finish to any layout.

To accentuate the bevel edges of this die label, and compliment the tones in the paper, I lighted brushed over with ink from my stash. 

You can see in the image below how I attached these to the back of the photo, again using the Glue Pen to adhere. 

 The title of my layout is Create Your Own Sunshine. I love this quote from the collection, which contains 12 different sentiments. I used this as a title for my layout, and placed it just underneath my photo. 

 To add further embellishment, I fussy cut out 7 of the butterflies in different colours and sizes. I used a mix of the foam strips and dots to adhere to the layout to add depth and dimension around the strips. 

There is also a butterfly stamp in the collection which I used. I stamped these in a co-ordinating green ink from my stash, as I wanted to have more green in the layout to balance out the pinks and greens. 

My finished layout – what do you think?

As you can see, the colours in this collection compliment perfectly with my photo, as well as the sentiment too!

 I spritzed the layout with mist before using Couture Creations Premium Adhesive Pearls around the layout, as well as down one of the strips to finish.