Hiya scrappy peeps! This is Suzanna here today and I would love to welcome you to my first blog post for Echo Park! I am thrilled and honored to be here and cannot wait to share with you my love for Echo Park Papers over the course of the next year! Speaking of love, have you seen the latest “love” collection, “You and Me”? It’s fresh, it’s unique and it’s not all pink and red! Sure, there are a lot of lovey dovey sayings, but they don’t all have to be about couples. This love-ly collection was perfect for documenting my daughter’s love for her cat.
I created the “love” cut file myself based on one of the stickers in the Element Sticker sheet. I cut that out with my Silhouette using the Ebony Carta Bella cardstock. This cardstock is new to me and WOW! I have a new favorite for digital die cutting! This stuff cuts like butter with crisp cuts every time. I also really recommend it for mixed media. While I didn’t use a ton, there wasn’t the warp that I usually get when applying texture paste as I did here. I used one of the heart stencils, Falling For You, to create a little bit of visual interest beside the vertical strips that I used.
There’s nothing that speaks love more than homemade so for that homemade touch, I used some floss and straight stitched around the outside of the heart. Each of the other letters is cut with a different patterned paper and slightly off set.
Even if you don’t do Project Life, I still recommend getting the 3x4 and 4x6 sheets of patterned paper! I often will use them to back photos, as I’ve done here or to die cut. For example, that yellow patterned paper for the “E” is one of the 3x4 cards. There wasn’t yellow in the 12x12 sheets and I wanted to incorporate the yellow so the 3x4 card was perfect. And, I didn’t have to cut into a whole sheet of paper. Brilliant, isn’t it?
Scattered through out the layout are a few of the Element Stickers and stamped sentiments from the coordinating stamp set. I have a little tip to share with you; if you offset stamp, or shadow stamp, as I did here, it’s not as essential that your stamping be perfect. You can accidentally miss a letter and it’s more easily correctable as the repetition is more forgiving.
Thanks for stopping in to today! I look forward to seeing you again soon!
SUPPLIES:
Ultra White Felt 80 lb Cardstock
Ebony Black Felt 80 lb Cardstock
I Love Us Floral Patterned Paper
3 X 4 Journaling Cards Patterned Paper
Swan Lake Love Patterned Paper
Multi Journaling Cards Patterned Paper
You And Me Flowers Patterned Paper
