Happy Independence Day to all of our American friends! We hope that you had a safe and very festive long weekend. Today we have Rachel Stewart sharing a wonderful layout that shows how versatile the Strong & Free collection is! It would work wonderfully for a 4th of July layout too, but here she has used it to document a beautiful rose garden photo. From here we will let Rachel take it away!
Great news! The new Strong & Free collection is beautiful and SO versatile, even if Canada is not your home country ;) It is my favorite collection to date. I love the beautiful patterns and soft but vibrant color palette.
For this project I started with coordinating splatters on white cardstock. I used my embossing gun to dry these because I'm impatient. I then stitched on some white crepe paper in an accordion style and began layering a few patterned papers over top of it. I also took advantage of a cut file meant to coordinate with the World's Best collection, and used the beautiful Northern lights printed paper for this.
On a side note, I'm so jealous of anyone who gets to see this beautiful natural phenomenon regularly. Being in the Southern US, I never have. But it's definitely on my bucket list.
I typically always want to add a little black to my pages, so I used an arrow stamp from the Adventure collection along with a few doodles and journaling.
Finally, I adhered a few sequins from the coordinating sequin mix found in the shop. I just love how well these products go with my picture - a snapshot I took at a rose garden in Portland, Oregon. I'm SO happy with how my project turned out. I hope you'll play around with this beautiful new collection.
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Thank you so much to Rachel for sharing her project with us! If you would like to see more of her wonderful work, please check out out her blog and Instagram.
