Hello beautiful...wild child

Here are another couple of pages I created for the zebra challenge.  These two are quite different to the Prima page and probably more typical of my style.  I used Cocoa Vanilla Studio Wild at Heart collection which is just gorgeous!

Here are my two pages.  Hello Beautiful was the first page I completed even though in theory it goes after the other as it is AFTER my little girl had a hair cut to fix up the crazy haircut she gave herself which is shown in Wild Child.  

For Hello Beautiful I wanted to use a cut file Wood You Be Mine which I purchased from the Cut Shoppe AGES ago, which is actually a woodgrain effect but it looked enough like a zebra for me.  I tried it out with colour behind but decided I really liked the look of the white on white except for behind the hearts and I do really love it...but it doesn't really look super zebra does it!  Stitching is becoming one of my favourite additions to a page so I went down the page in a bunch of places.  Instead of doing a thin matt around the white cardstock, I went for a thick heavy frame that went over top of the white cardstock, it is a really effective way to use a lot of colour and patterns without overwhelming a photo.

My second layout is slightly more zebra as it has my little girl in with her mohawk hair cut and the background is stripy.  I stuck with the same idea of a thick frame and neutral background and this time used frames/clusters of paper.  Originally, the four clusters were all straight but I couldn't resist doing one crooked, it really fits the page.  

I cant wait to get stuck into creating some more pages with this range, it seems Cocoa Vanilla collections just keep getting better and better!

Let's be wild together

As part of The Paper Teapot design team, I had to come up with a monthly challenge and for some reason I chose zebra.  I don't know where I even got the idea from, it just came into my mind. It seems an odd one I know, but the idea is to take any element from this and use it to inspire a project.  

I really wanted to use Prima Wild and Free for this challenge but it didn't arrive in time for my example post.  Once it turned up tho, I knew what I would like to do and that is to cut strips of paper and layer along one side.  I like how this mimics a zebras stripes (albeit the wrong way round) and also reminds me of the steps leading to the waterfall we visited in the photo as well as the rocks there. 

I only had the 6x6 paper pad as well as the cutapart sheet as I knew I would struggle to use the beautiful gold foil on one side!  So this design worked perfectly.  Here is my layout.

To accentuate the strips of paper, I used my sewing machine to sew black thread along each line.  I also used my machine to sew lines for my journaling.  I can't believe how few embellishments I used on this page, just a few stickers from the sticker sheet and the journaling card!

This was a lot of fun to create and I love how it turned out despite lacking my usual over embellishing!