Hello Lovelies!! It has been a while since I created a layout, and I was a little rusty until Hidden Creek was on my desk! Katie Pertiet has designed a gorgeous new collection for Arden Creative Studio. The collection is full of all of those hidden gems you would find by a quiet creek in the woods. Fern, butterflies, wild flowers, and those tiny bugs that are oh so cute!! Yes, bugs can be cute!
Last year, we started raising Monarch Butterflies. The photos in the layout are of my grandaughter holding one of the newly hatched Monarchs.
I started with mounting a 12x12 paper from the pad on a piece of cardboard but did not adhere a small vertical strip. i peeled that part back and tucked in a strip of corrugated cardboard. The frames were created using 2 retired Sizzix BIGZ dies that I layered. I adhered the frames to the base, then the fun began decorating the layout.
The little bugs in the Ephemera pack are just to cute. I fussy cut the white edge out, and used a ball stylus to round them out. I used a black sharpie to color the legs and popped them onto a leaf using a small pop dot underneath. I strung the laser cut pendant with some jute.
I added some of my favorite elements, and created my own flowers to match the papers perfectly. I love adding a little texture to my layouts, and this time, used some peeled back corrugated cardboard that I distressed with white acrylic paint.
Look at the delicate laser cut darling Damselfly. I just glued her onto the flower. I created the flowers using some of my favorite floral dies.
Do you have a favorite paper collection, and want the perfect flowers to match?? I grabbed Katie Pertiet Designs digital Dirty Linens Autumn Paper Pack, printed one of the teal colors on both sides of a piece of 110lb cardstock, die cut and created the perfect flowers. No need to ink if your using digital papers. I did use some Vintage Photo Distress ink on the edges to give them a little bit of depth. The fern are all die cut from the Fern Valley Die set created for the Hidden Creek collection. I can see using this die for many years to come.
The blue flowers were die cut from a retired Sizzix Susans Garden Black Eyed Susan die. The middle of the flower was done using a McGill sun punch. I punched 5 suns and layered them together scrunching them up. The white flowers are an Elizabeth Crafts die designed by Angelica Turner.
Wild Flower 2 using a ball stylus to shape, and the middle was done with a
Floral 9 die and slit each petal into 2 making the petal thinner. I then added Prills to the middle.
Hidden Creek is a beautiful collection. There is so much more to this collection. My favorite online store to get my scrapbooking supplies is A Cherry On Top. They have everything you need!!!Including the complete line of Hidden Creek.
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