Imaginisce Perfect Vacation Coming Home Layout

When is a vacation not really a vacation? Well when you love a paper range so much you can turn it into anything you want it to be. The new Perfect Vacation paper and embellishments are lovely, but I haven’t been on a vacation in a while so I used it in a slightly different way – I created a ‘coming home’ layout. I used photos of our beloved Misha Labrador of when she came to live with us – in many ways she is on a permanent vacation and coming home was a perfect theme and title for my layout.

I love when you can use a range of papers for something else to convey a feeling, emotions, moments and capture memories – because in the end scrapbooking and memory keeping is a personal thing, and really what you do with it is for you alone.

These dimensional stickers are quick and easy to use on your projects. They offer dimension in selected areas and what can be easier than using the same range of elements to finish off your layout. I dressed mine up by adhering the circle element to a larger punched circle and then adding some hand sewing around the outer edge for more texture.

Patterned paper has become such an integral part of designing layouts, and what better way than to use elements from the actual papers as accents. I cut out some of the printed suitcases out of the papers and added them to my layout as a fun accent.

Another way I like to add texture and patterns to my layouts is hand sewing. Here I used a strip of washi tape and then added my sewing directly on top of that – I combine texture and pattern all in one.

I used some of their beautiful stamps to create little accents across my layout. Here’s how I incorporated the images and techniques…

I love my stamps as they are so versatile and can be used over and over again on layouts, cards, tags and mixed media projects. To create little accents I stamped my compass image onto the bag side of my American Crafts white cardstock (the smooth side) in black Versafine in pad. The ink is made for fine detailed images so worked really well with this detailed stamp. I then added some colour using my Artiste Dual Markers and cut out the centre of the image for a whole new look.

The little camera is also from the stamp range and too cute for words – I gave it the same colouring treatment as the compass image. I love the watercolour look and together with my stamping and colouring I can easily achieve this look I love so much.