Laura Vegas

I was just looking at my posts from the last few weeks, and realized I've been sharing Bella Blvd goodness for a full THREE weeks now! And there's still more to come on that end, since I did so many projects. But today, I'm switching gears, to share a few projects that I did for Kerri Bradford Studio this week! 

There's still at touch of Bella on here, since truthfully, this started as a Bella layout about 2 months ago, for our team-up with Core'dinations cardstock (isn't the dotted embossed cardstock gorgeous!). It never got finished, and what I did have done, I didn't love. So I tore most of the layout apart, keeping the photo collage and a few of the papers I had picked out, and started over. I'm so much happier with how this turned out.

I wanted to use one of Kerri's storyboard templates from her Picture That [Squared] kit, for my photo collage, but didn't have quite enough photos to fill up the spaces on the one I choose to use. I played around with the layers, combining two of the openings to make it a bit larger.

For the upper left corner photo, my photos wasn't cropping in how I wanted it to, to fill up the full space. So I adjusted the photo to how I liked it, leaving a bit of empty space on the right side of the photo. So when I printed my collage, there was actually some of the grey box still next to the photo. I printed out my journaling on a piece of graph patterned paper, and adhered it over the empty space next to the photo. Just an easy way to add your journaling right into your collage.

I cut out several hearts, using the XOXO kit, to sprinkle around the page. Good old basic hearts are always great for embellishing in my book. I dug out some coordinating buttons to add to the center of each heart. I also wanted to add a little interest to my pattern papers on the layout, so I used a few background shapes with circles (I'm slightly addicted to circles these days ;)). It's hard to see it here, but that white text patterned paper is cut with a circle background.

Since my collage was being adhered over the strips of pattern paper, I only needed to cut a small strip of paper to go on either side of the photo collage. The Life Additions: Backgrounds kit worked perfectly for this, with the small sized background pieces. Btw, all of the patterned papers on this page are a mix of Bella Blvd and Echo Park. 

For my title, I choose this fun phrase from the All About You kit. I cut an extra phrase from white cardstock, and layered it behind the patterned paper phrase, just to help it stand out against the blue cardstock.