Party Store Adventures Layout

Here is another layout called Party Store Adventures I made to showcase my new Horizon collection which debuted at Creativation this past January!

I trimmed of all of the patterned barcode strips from the bottoms of the 24 Horizon patterned papers and then used four different scalloped border punches to make them fancy. I die cut a large heart using my Silhouette Cameo 3 from white cardstock and then, starting at the bottom, layered the scalloped paper strips up the heart. To keep all the paper strips in place permanently I used my Brother sewing machine to stitch around the edges using white thread and then to create lots of texture and dimension I bent up the scalloped strips.

For the background I chose the B-side of Paper 22 and before adding the heart to the left side I splashed a whole bunch of white acrylic paint and Pastel Dreams watercolors over it, letting it dry between each color, or rather, drying it with a hair dryer to speed up the process :)

I added a photo of Jane on the left side of the heart and decorated with a butterfly and moth Chipboard Sticker along with a heart and label Sticker. The title was created with the Thickers and Epoxy Stickers around the curve of the heart and I machine stitched through those as well because Thickers tend to fall off without reinforcement. I added lots of heart Epoxy Stickers on the top right corner and wrote journaling with a white pen below to finish.

Thank you so much for coming to my blog today, I hope you are inspired to use up those barcode strips and check out my new Horizon collection!

SUPPLIES: HORIZON: Paper 01, Paper 02, Paper 03, Paper 04, Paper 05, Paper 06, Paper 07, Paper 08, Paper 09, Paper 10, Paper 11, Paper 12, Paper 13, Paper 14, Paper 15, Paper 16, Paper 17, Paper 18, Paper 19, Paper 20, Paper 21, Paper 22, Paper 23, Paper 24, Thickers, Stickers, Chipboard Stickers, Epoxy Stickers; Die cut machine: Silhouette Cameo 3; Border punches: EK Success, Fiskars, Martha Stewart Crafts; white acrylic paint; Watercolors: Prima - Pastel Dreams