My Darling Dears Layout

Hello! It’s Renee Zwirek here to share a step-by-step tutorial of how I put this fall layout together.  It’s not the typical colors and patterns that I would use when I think of fall and that’s the whole reason why I embraced Jen Hadfield’s Home+Made collection for this project.  It’s such a pretty and versatile collection.

I started by penciling in a vertical line on my background paper.  Then, I added heat embossed leaves along that line.

I added various strips of pattern papers next to my leaves using some Double-Sided Sticky Red Tape.

I added three favorite fall photos of my girls (which measures slightly less than 4 x 6 inches because I trimmed off the borders) with a bit of Adhesive Runner.

I used the beautiful Gilded Gold Thickers for my title.  I heat embossed the “Darling” word clear stamp onto vellum and cut it out to add a pumpkin color and some fun to my title.

I embellished around my photos and added my journaling to finish off my layout.

Here are some close-up shots:  I had enough room on this photo to add a gold glittered flag sticker and a leaf cut from the Burlap with White Dot specialty paper in this collection.

I just LOVE fussy-cutting the hexagons from the Homemaker pattern paper and adding more stickers.

And, more hexagons scattered around my photos.  I added my journaling to the gold glittered sticker tag and stitched a burlap leaf and a heat embossed vellum leaf to it.

Happy Fall, Everyone!

Supplies:
Home+Made Aqua Florali (732589)
Home+Made Sunday Best (732590)
Home+Made Silver (732592)
Home+Made Homemaker (732598)
Home+Made Planters (732604)
Home+Made 1905 Pine (732605)
Home+Made Burlap with White Dot (732607)
Home+Made Phrase & Accent Stickers (732611)
Home+Made Gilded Thickers, Gold (732613)
Home+Made Gold Circles Glitter Stickers (732621)
American Crafts Zing! Opaque Finish Embossing Powder, Rouge (27123)
American Crafts Zing! Opaque Finish Embossing Powder, White (27124)
American Crafts Zing! Opaque Finish Embossing Powder, Apricot (27136)
American Crafts Zing! Metallic Finish Embossing Powder, Copper (27160)
American Crafts Baker’s Twine Value Pack 5yd Spools 24/Pkg, Bright (366303)
American Crafts This To That Adhesive Runner with 2 Refills (61740)
American Crafts This To That Double-Sided Super Sticky Red Tape (61753)
American Crafts Amy Tangerine Plus One Accompany Clear Stamps (366856)