Hello sweet friends! It’s Kelly Daye back with a pretty garden layout to inspire you. I’ve used Paige’s Butterfly & Flower Wreath cut file along with her Blooming Wild, Garden Shoppe, Splendid and Bloom Street collections. I always love mixing Paige’s collections together to make something that’s totally me.
I cut the Butterfly & Flower Wreath from white cardstock and also used white cardstock for the background. After paper backing the wreath, I used a combination of the chain stitch and straight stitch on the entire cut file, always stitching with four strands of DMC Floss. Why only four? Because some of the spaces are very small and I didn’t want to entirely cover up the paper. It took about 20 hours. Before adding the stitched wreath to the background, I cut the cardstock down to 11.5" square and matted it on Blooming Wild Paper 3, then added a running stitch all around. I struggled at picking a color of DMC floss, so I took two strands from each of the four colors I used to stitch the wreath and mixed them together. It turned out so pretty and chunky, kind of an opal color. To finish the background I stenciled a brick pattern in the corners using Distress Oxides. Floral Die Cuts from the Garden Shoppe collection emphasize the diagonal format. A couple of Cardstock Stickers from Garden Shoppe provided a subtitle. The paper tags on my photos hold the title "OH MY" made with older floral Thickers from Paige’s Bloom Street collection. I love scrapping photos of my July garden to remind me it’s the prettiest time of the year. I hope you’re inspired to save memories of your own gardens this summer using Paige's cut files and pretty paper collections!
SUPPLIES: Patterned papers, stickers, die cuts: Blooming Wild, Garden Shoppe, Splendid and Bloom Street; white cardstock; Cut file: Butterfly & Flower Wreath by Paige Evans
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