This is the last of the six layouts I made for customers during the Davisburg Spring crop in March.
I had the characters done during another crop I had attended, since they need some time to adhere together. Many layers and tiny part and this takes a little time to finish.
My last layout for this set was inspired by Elsa and Anna. Do to the cutting function "mirror" on the Cricut Explore, I was able to create my characters for left and right pages.
I picked a medium blue cardstock for the background.
The light blue cardstock was cut down to a 10"x10" piece. When I adhered the light blue to the dark, I made sure the distances between top and bottom are the same. I placed the left piece a bit closer to the left side and the right closer to the right side. When you look at the pages right next to each other, the left, middle(both pages) and right space is equal. Hard to describe, hope it makes sense :-)
This time I used a third blue and peacock cardstock as my photo mats. I place an extra white cardstock piece on top with rounded corners. My snowflakes are added with foam dots to the page. I only place the foam in the middle of each flake, this way it is easier to tuck the pictured underneath.
Both characters are raised with foam dot's as well since this makes them stand out from the rest just a bit.
All flakes are decorated with blue or clear rhinestones. This is a more simple design, but with all of these, you want to emphasize the wonderful characters and at the same time let your photos shine. Sometimes less is more ;)
I did think about adding faux stitching with a white pen around the pages and maybe some doodling on the photo mats, but time was running out. You could add this to it, but I think the layout looks fine as it is.
If you missed the other five layouts from the past Fridays, click on the "Frozen" Label on the right and check them out. I would love to hear from you, so leave a comment or email me.
Come join me for a fun class on how to make your own layout matching your photos. Or, if you like to buy a layout, contact me with your wishes and for more information. Stay tuned for more layout to come....see whats new next Friday.
Remember the first layout of Frozen I published on the blog? No, well check it out HERE.
The wonderful glitter paper with the pine trees in the background I used in the first layout was actually cut in half. In this new layout I used the second half of it. I just can't waist anything and these cute deer's are a great compliment to Sven.
Sven, like the other characters used in my layouts were cut with the Cricut Explore. All characters are made up of different layers and tiny pieces. Lot's of work if you never assembled one, but so worth it.
I found a matching piece of cardstock that would work with the glitter one on the left side. I tried it on a white background, but I thought this was too blank. Instead I used a dark grey cardstock for my base. The dark color brings the glitter and deer really to shine.
Sven is so impressive he didn't really needed much embellishment. So I simply decided on the amount of pictures I planed on using for this layout and matted them on Close to My Heart peacock cardstock. I place my snowflakes randomly on the page. Some tucked under the photo mat or cut in half and added to the sides of my mats.
Any white mat can be used for photos or journaling. I added three strips of whit paper to the left side which can be used as titles or journaling as well. A few rhinestones in the middle of the snowflakes and spread out on the pages will finish this one off.
How do you like my Friday "Frozen" series so far? Interested in creating your own layout? Would you like to buy or make one? In any event, just contact me for more information. I would love to hear from you.
Here is another sample of a Frozen layout I made. This time I picked Olaf as the main character and the nice Frozen title to go with it.
Let talk a bit about how to start one of these layouts. I usually look at the characters I pick and take my inspiration from there. For example, Olaf is a snowman after all, so snow, snowflakes, whites and blues and a bit of glitter would work great here.
Looking through my stack of papers I found a design paper with white, blue and red dots on it. It's a Christmas paper, but I think more of winter of it and the red gives a little pop of color to the layout. Next I picked a dark blue cardstock pulled from the Frozen title and a light blue cardstock picked from the title and Olaf's mouth. These are the main three papers I used here.
Try to keep the amount of different papers used in a layout to 3-4. This will make it easier for you to create your design. Make sure you add a neutral color to the group, white, cream, brown, grey or black for example.
As I mentioned before, all these fun characters and the title were cut with the Cricut Explore. Lot's of layers and tiny pieces, but worth the effort. The beauty of using a Cricut cutting machine is that beside cutting different size, you can easily mirror the image which gives you even more layout options.
With all the colors and the fun and crazy character I picked, I thought a layout with many squares would be a great idea. I cut my three papers in 3" x 3" squares and rounded the corners. The hard part was to lay them down in a pattern that looks random, but will not place two of the same color next to each other. Once the squares were place I looked at a rather busy design. To bring it all together, I decided to use plain Daisy White cardstock as my background paper.
In the next step I adhered all my squares to the background. If you are not sure the previous layout of your squares will be the one you end up using, place them on the white cardstock without adhering. I often also add my characters, title and embellishments (here the snowflakes) to it. This makes it easy to see the almost finished pages and you can easily move things around and see if other option might work better....I call this "Dry Fitting"! Sometimes an idea I started with changes during this process.
If I am happy what I see I start putting things in place with adhesive. I usually add the characters with foam dots to the pages. Title and squares are glues direct to the paper. Some squares might be on foam dots depending on how much more 3d effect I need.
The extra white squares (2 3/4") are added to a few colored squares. Those can be uses for photos or as journaling etc. Depending on the amount of photos you have, you can always use any of the other squares as photo mats as well. Snowflakes are added with foam dots and I used blue rhinestones as snowballs for the juggling Olaf's. Once everything was adhered I looked at my layout and still, something was missing. I decided to add hand-drawn stitching around the pages and some of the squares.
Each layout is individual and depending on the the characters different colors and designs are used. Try it yourself and see how much fun it can be to make a layout for your photos.
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Here is another variation of the theme "Frozen" and a wonderful layout idea for your pictures.
This time I used the character of Anna for the design. Again, snowflakes and Anna where cut with the Cricut Explore. While the snowflakes are only one layered object, Anna comes in many little pieces. All these pieces have to be adhered together...little by little. Yes, even the blue of the eyes is a cut out piece!
Since Anna has a bit more pink and red in her dress, I thought it would be nice to use these colors this time.
I found a single sheet of this striped glitter paper in my stack and it fitted perfectly for this layout, beside a few red stripes in it. This red was not working with the pink of the character. But, my background paper is this light blue cardstock, so I simply cut the red stripes out and place the remaining strips on the blue cardstock. I left a little gap between the pieces where the red strip was and let the cardstock shine through. They fit so perfectly, you can't even tell.
So, whenever you have a design paper with a strip you can't use, think about cutting it out;)
I used Close to My Heart cardstock in peacock and pomegranate as my mat colors.
All snowflakes were decorated with blue rhinestones and each photo mat was embellished with two little clear rhinestones. Can't have enough bling, right?
Make sure to cut some of your snowflakes in half and tuck them under the photo mats or have them fall of the page. I also like to doodle on the white mats which makes some layout designs more interesting.
Well, this was the third layout I made during the crop in March and like all the others, it is sold.
But, if you like to order a Frozen layout or create your own, contact me for more information.
Here is another layout with the "Frozen" theme.
This time I used Sven and Olaf in the layout. White and glitter blue snowflakes decorating the page.
The title "Frozen" comes, like the characters in multiple layers and these were cut with the Cricut Explore as well. Assembling Olaf is a bit easier than working on Sven. He has many parts and many many tiny ones on top!
But I think he was worth it and turned out great.
In this page layout design I matted all pictures with either colored cardstock or design paper. To bring both sides together I placed a strip of design paper on the bottom of each page.
Instead of having the characters float on the page, I cut two strips of Close to My Heart white glitter paper, rounded the top corners and used them as snowy ground.
Now it looks like they float on an ice-sheet.
I always like to pick cardstock and design papers that complement the theme and the request of my customer. The person who ordered this layout at the last crop I attended, wanted multiple characters on different layouts. Also colors mixed for boys and girls, so I would say this is more for the boys, or?
I always like to add a good amount of pictures to the layouts, but I can add as many as you wish...well almost ;)
Once I placed Olaf on his sheet of ice I thought he needed something in his hands. Well what better than a few snowballs.
I placed those with foam dots around Olaf and added a little bit of glitter to them. I usually place all the characters on foam dots to the pages, since this makes them stand out even more.
When I cut my mats for the photos, I usually cut them 4" x 6", 3"x 4" or 3" x 3". This makes it easier to use the space on the pages and it makes your paper go a long way! Why? Because you have less scrap material left as if you would when you cut your mats with an extra 1/4" to fit your photos. For me it is easier to cut a 1/4" off my photo to make them fit on the mat.
How do you like this layout? Please leave a comment and email me if you like to purchase a layout for your pictures or if you would love to come by and create your own.
This is the last of the six layouts I made for customers during the Davisburg Spring crop in March. 
I picked a medium blue cardstock for the background. 
Both characters are raised with foam dot's as well since this makes them stand out from the rest just a bit.
