Laura Vegas

I sort of forgot all about this layout of mine. I created this layout for the Bella Blvd catalog, for our Winter 2015 CHA release. This went on a catalog page that showed off the chipboard alphas, feathers, and crochet hearts. All older products, which I mixed in with our newer patterned papers, chipboard, and embellishments.

And since this was the one layout leftover from CHA that hadn't been shared on the Bella blog yet, I decided to use it for one of our Monday Morning Challenges. Incorporating crochet hearts, feathers, and chipboard elements into a layout. I asked our fabulous designer Katie Rose to play along with me, and you can see what she created HERE.

I had pulled out the photo of Sarah from a pile of leftover photos, just to use as a guide for starting the layout and figuring out the design of the page. Along the way, I decided to stick with that photo, as it's a favorite of mine and it gave me an idea for a fun title.

"Giggles & Dimples". Love it. I used a mix of the pink and brown Amorie chipboard alphas for my title, arranging it across the page in a curved, wavy fashion. I then freehand sketched out that wave on a sheet of white cardstock and cut out a piece wide enough to hold the crochet hearts.

I had already picked out the colorful circle patterned paper to use on the bottom part of the page, so I used those colors to pick out my crochet heart colors. I won't tell you how long I spent trying to arrange the hearts to my liking. I overthink things all the time!

I picked out a light pink feather and a tan feather, and tucked them behind my photo. I really do like the texture the feathers add to the page, without adding any bulk. To adhere them, I arranged them where I wanted them, and stapled the ends in place. Once I adhered my photo, it covered up those staples.

I needed to add something in the bottom corner of the page, so I picked out some of our new chipboard hearts to coordinate with the page, along with a yellow chipboard border. I thought this layout was done at one point, and was even taking the photos of it for the catalog, when I realized it needed another touch of brown. So I added the year that this photo was taken, using some brown number stickers from the Campout collection.

And finally, I added some of our new enamel dots to the center of the crochet hearts. All in coordinating colors, except for the grey heart. I had to use a white dot on that, since we don't have grey enamels.