Laura Vegas

Hey everyone! I'm back to share another layout I created as the recent guest designer for Doodlebug Designs. I love a good girl themed collection, as I have not only two girls of my own, but a ton of adorable little girls that I've had the pleasure of watching over the years as a home daycare provider.

I have a few favorite photos of one girl in particular that I've been wanting to use on a layout, and the Hello collection was perfect for doing just that. I printed my photos as 3×3's and 3×4's, and set out to create a grid of photos and patterned paper along the outside edges of the page.

I wanted to use up 3" of space along the outside edges, so I made sure to keep my two 3×4" photos on either the right of the left sides of the page. I worked the two 3×3" photos along the top and bottom of the page.

This left me with a 6×6" area in the center of the page for my title and journaling. I matted my 6×6" piece of white cardstock with a navy blue patterned paper and then added a scalloped border around the outside edges using my favorite border punch.

I wanted to work "sunshine" into my title, as our nickname for Alora was "Miss Sunshine". I used my Silhouette to die cut the word "sunshine" from a yellow grid patterned paper, and added a die cut "hello" from the Chit Chat package. 

I added some cute die cuts and word/phrase stickers to a few of the patterned paper blocks, using pop dots for a little dimension.  

I created a bunch of cards with the Hello collection as well, and I'll be sharing those later this week!