Fall in love with Baby Love | RECIPE
Baby Love is absolutely the best! And, I love that this beautiful Hillside Cottage Collection has helped me capture the very first meeting between this beautiful baby boy and his very proud Papa. <3
The PROCESS:
When I first started putting this layout together, the only thing on my mind was pattern mixing. I literally didn’t have a theme in mind, I just kept laying patterns next to each other to see which ones were the most pleasing to the eye. I would even start glueing things down only to rip them back up later – Oy! …Of course, I’ve never claimed to be the most efficient paper-crafter. I just do what I do until I like what I see.
The other thing on my mind was that I wanted to use the new Hillside Cottage Cricut Shapes. Unfortunately, I had started working on this layout almost a month prior to the Cricut release date. That made me shelf my progress for a while, but not before I discovered that I had enough paper leftover from the pack to create the same layout in pink! Woop! Woop! …And that’s how my ‘Baby Love’ boy/girl layouts were born.
The INGREDIENTS:
Provided is a visual link of the products I used to create the layouts (above). When you click on a link, a new browser window/tab will open up for easy shopping on my Close To My Heart Website.
*Also, please note that you will want to purchase (2) Mix-in Paper Packs to create these layouts as-is.
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The RECIPE:
Instead of listing a detailed recipe of the sizes of papers you will need to create this design, I’m going to refer you to the Make It From Your Heart Volume 5 how-to book. This book is a MUST-HAVE if you love Pattern / Sketches and includes:
- (5) single page patterns
- (15) double page layouts
- (10) card patterns
For this layout I used Pattern #10 on pages 24 & 25.
* Binder sold separately.
The DETAILS:
As for the details, I’m going to try and keep it as easy as possible.
- Use the MIFYH Vol. 5 How-To Book – Pattern 10 – for all of your paper layering and placement.
- You will need to purchase the Hillside Cottage Cricut Collection in order to cut the pieces needed for these layouts.
- Here is the link to my Cricut Cut File.
- Other than that, let me point out a few things of interest…
- Use a Journal Pen to draw a line above the Zip Strip layered onto piece B & K.
- On the left page, I used the Alphabet Stamp Set to record the birth date.
- Using Canary Ink I stamped the Polka Dot image from the Background Stamps onto the Flowers.
- Use 3D Foam Dots to pop up all Cricut pieces.
- TIP: I cut some of the small dots in half for use on the words.
- Embellish around the Flowers with Gold Gems.
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