Laura Vegas

I finally have something to share with you all. Yay! I was excited to get an email from Heidi Sonboul a few months ago, inviting me to be the October guest designer for Chickaniddy. I've met Heidi a few times over the years at past CHA's, and it's been fun to see her start up her own company over the last year or so. She sent me her new Scrumptious collection to work with, which is a fun fall collection.

I'm sure I've said it before, but I'm a sucker for fall colors and fall products. Which is strange, since I very rarely have fall photos, as we don't have a typical "fall" season where we live. After digging around in my photos, I came across these photos I took way back when, of one of my little daycare babies. It's fun to look back on these photos, knowing that little Adyson is now a full eight years older than in these photos!

I started out by printing out my photos in a photo collage, allowing me to easily fit six photos on the page in a clean and organized way. I usually tend to figure out my title towards the end of my pages. Since I knew I wanted to include the "Scrumptious" sticker in my title, I decided to work on my title first. 

I die cut "Fall", using my Cameo, from the burnt orange patterned paper and spritzed it with some white misting spray. One of the patterned papers had four 6×6" blocks of solid colors to match the collection. These were perfect to use for die cutting, and I used the brown block to die cut the outline for the word "Fall" and "baby". Once again, my favorite chunky block and cursive word combo for a title.

I went with pink, green, and brown patterned papers to tie in with my photos. And then threw in the burnt orange and yellow to make it more fallish. I die cut a thin little circle border from the green star patterned paper, to add a bit of interest next to the photo collage.

I love all the little frames in the die cut package that coordinates with the collection, and combined two of them to hold my journaling. I thought about printing my journaling out in a little block to go behind the frames, but decided to do my normal journaling strips so that some of the pink misting would still show on the background of my page.

You can check me out over on the Chickaniddy blog, where I'm being featured today. I have two layouts up there today, but I'll also be sharing the second one here next week. And then I'll be visiting their blog again later this month, to join in on their sketch feature.