I have a huge stack of layouts that have never seen the light of day (on this blog, anyway). Truthfully, they get plenty of light on my dining room table where they've been happily living for many years, moving only for the occasional Thanksgiving dinner or Mother's Day brunch when we have to clear them out to use the table for its intended purpose. If there's one thing i can do well, it's make piles of items I plan to deal with...later.
But since COVID rolled into town and my hubby's been working from home, he needed the dining room table as a desk and these stacks of layouts have moved to my office floor, where they wait for me to get motivated enough to put them all away in their various albums. It's a project that I easily (and happily) procrastinate doing, because there's just so many other things that require my time. Instagram ain't gonna scroll itself, you know.
But just because I can't manage to get them into albums doesn't mean I can't share them here - and buy myself some more time from the dreaded album-inserting. So here's the first in what's sure to be a long line of layouts to come. (Seriously, the stacks are taller than my shortest Great Dane.)
S U P P L I E S:
Dear Heart by Basic Grey | Bazzill White Cardstock | Buttons | Enamel Dots | Square Punch | Sewing Machine
This page is an oldie-but-goodie from my beloved time on the BasicGrey design team. While the exact supplies are obviously no longer available, I did find the digital collection, Dear Heart, available at SnapClickSupply. I'd seriously buy the digital files and print it at home just to use this pretty collection again! But if you're looking for papers currently available, Springtime Pals collection by The Paper Tree and Gingham Garden by My Mind's Eye are similar color and pattern palettes.
On the bottom half of my page, I punched 1.5" squares from all the lovely patterned papers. When there's too many pretties to choose just one, creating a patchwork quilt from ALL of them is your best option! I adhered them in a grid to the background and then added diagonal stitching to give the whole thing a handmade feel.
Because the quilt technique incorporates a lot of straight lines and right angles, I wanted to balance that with circular photos and accents across the top of the page. They add a sense of motion and movement to the page, while the blocks of squares give the design stability.
So now I have one layout to add to a new pile: those that have been posted on the blog and still need to be placed in an album. Didn't I say I'm talented at creating piles?!
Happy weekend, my friends!
