Thinking Outside the Box!

So I'm often thinking of ways that I can capture and create memories, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who wishes they could have a whole wall of memories but still get the pleasure of scrapbooking them. Well that is just what I am wanting to do. I am wanting to re-decorate my bedroom/craft area in a teal blue with hints of black and white so when I found this frame for only £1.99 in B&M I just had to get it! Here I am with some inspiration for you and how I completed the first of many projects.


So here is the end result..I will now talk you through how I created it window, by window.


So here is the first frame. We went on a trip to Brighton last week (yes we were lucky to get the lovely weather...now look at it again!) As usual I took a tonne of photo's and all of my layouts and designs over the next few weeks will be focused on this trip.
So here we have a picture of the Brighton Pier. For this window I used the following products:
From the Lite Kit:
Maggie Holmes Bloom - Afternoon Cardstock
Simple Stories Carpe Diem - Bits & Pieces
From the Embellishment Kit:
Elle's Studio Little Moments -  Bits & Pieces
Pink Fresh Studio Felicity - Puffy Sequin Stickers
Simple Stories Carpe Diem - Chipboard Stickers

Firstly I cut a 4x6 piece of the Maggie Holmes Bloom Afternoon cardstock and a piece of the same size of white cardstock and adhered the pattern paper to it, to give it more stability.
Next I printed my picture off my Canon Selphy at 6x4 with a border so it would be smaller than the backing paper, especially when I trimmed the border down even more with my cutter. On the photo itself I stuck one of the Carpe Diem Chipboard stickers which reads best day ever, 3 of the Pink Fresh Studio Felicity Puffy Sequins and overlapped a couple of pieces of the Carpe Diem bits and pieces ephemera pack. In the right hand top corner of the photo I stuck on the Carpe Diem Chipboard Anchor and to finish off I used one of the Elle's Studio bits and pieces which reads Treasured Photographs.


Frame #2 and the products used:

From the Main Kit:
Pink Fresh Studio Life Noted Washi Stickers
Pink Fresh Studio Felicity Die Cuts
From the Lite Kit:
Fancy Pants Attwell Black & White Puffy Alphabet
From the Embellishment Kit:
Pink Fresh Studio Felicity Puffy Sequin Stickers
Extras:
March April Pocket Card Kit

The next window is a 4x3 size and I hadn't realised when I made this window there were sadly no number stickers on the Attwell Puffy Alpha's sheet so I had to rummage through my stash to find some. I started by using one of the wood-grain 3x4 cards from the March/April Pocket Card Kit as my base. Because this was a card already I didn't feel the need to adhere it to more card. I then used the Attwell Black and White Puffy Alphabet stickers to spell out Brighton. At the bottom I used one of the Pink Fresh Studio Life Noted Washi stickers (I LOVE THESE!) and that says Memories to remember always. To finish off this small card I used one of the hearts from the Pink Fresh Studio Felicity Die Cuts and one of the Felicity Puffy Sequins.


Frame #3 and the products used:

From the Main Kit:
Maggie Holmes Bloom Afternoon Cardstock
Pink Fresh Studio Felicity Confetti Hearts Cardstock
Pink Fresh Studio Life Noted Washi Stickers
Pink Fresh Studio Felicity Die Cuts
From the Embellishment Kit:
Elle's Studio Little Moments Bits & Pieces

This frame was a 5x5 size. Firstly I went onto my pic stitch app and used the 4 photo design. I added my photo's and when it came to printing, made sure the border option was on that way all 4 photo's would fit on a 6x4 photo sheet. I trimmed down the border and adhered it to the Maggie Holmes Bloom Afternoon cardstock which I had cut down to 5x5 and adhered that onto a piece of white cardstock of the same size. I cut 2 strips of the Pink Fresh Studio Felicity Confetti Hearts Cardstock (I didn't bother measuring, I just guessed) and put those behind the photo at the top and bottom of the photo. I wanted the picture off centre to the right so I could add 2 of the Pink Fresh Studio Life Noted Washi Stickers. In the middle I added one of the hearts from the Pink Fresh Studio Felicity Die Cuts and finished this design off with 2 pieces from the Elle's Studio Little Moments Bits & Pieces.

Frame #4 and the products used:

From the Main Kit:
Maggie Holmes Bloom Afternoon Cardstock
Pink Fresh Studio Felicity Confetti Hearts Cardstock
Pink Fresh Studio Life Noted Washi Stickers
From the Lite Kit:
Simple Stories Carpe Diem Bits & Pieces
From the Embellishment Kit:
Elle's Studio Little Moments Bits & Pieces

This was the biggest window of the frame at size 5x7. Same as the previous window's so far I used the Maggie Holmes Bloom Afternoon cardstock cut at 5x7 inches and matted it on white cardstock. I also matted my photo on this one. I used the B side of the Pink Fresh Studio Felicity Confetti Hearts cardstock. Before I adhered all of these I used 2 of the tag shapes from the Elle's Studio Little Moments bits & pieces and layered them under the top right corner of the photo. I then added another piece of ephemera from the same collection to write the date on at the bottom of the photo. At the top I used another of the Pink Fresh Studio Life Noted Washi Stickers (told you I love these!) and finished off by sticking down 2 bits of ephemera from the Simple Stories Carpe Diem Bits & Pieces pack.

Frame #5 and the products used:


From the Main Kit:
Pink Fresh Studio Life Noted Washi Stickers
Pink Fresh Studio Life Noted Rubber Charm Stickers.

For this 4x4 sized window I just matted it onto white cardstock as I wanted the photo to fit the whole frame. I used one of the Life Noted Rubber Charm stickers in the top corner and you guess it...more Life Noted washi stickers!

Frame #6 and the products used.

From the Main Kit:
Pink Fresh Studio Felicity Confetti Hearts cardstock
Simple Stories Carpe Diem Bits & Pieces
Pink Fresh Studio Life Noted Rubber Charm Stickers

This was a vertical 4x6 frame and again I wanted the photo to be the main focus so I backed it onto some of the Felicity Confetti Hearts cardstock A side, but only left a thin border so I could see a few of the hearts on it here and there. I am astounded by how many pieces come in the Carpe Diem bits & Pieces set...there's loads! I used three more in this frame and finished it off with one of the Life Noted Rubber Charm stickers.

Frame #7 and the products used:

From the Main Kit:
Fancy Pants Attwell Aqua Puffy Alpha Stickers
From the Lite Kit:
Fancy Pants Attwell Black & White Puffy Alpha Stickers
From the Embellishment Kit:
Fancy Pants Attwell  Green Puffy Alpha Stickers 
Simple Stories Carpe Diem Chipboard Stickers 
Pink Fresh Studio Felicity Sequin Puffy Stickers
Elle's Studio Little Moments Bits & Pieces

So for the last and final frame I decided I'd already got enough pictures and chose to put something a little more decorative in there. Using the Attwell Puffy Alpha's from the Main, Lite & Embellishment kit I stuck them onto a 3x4 piece of the Pink Fresh Studio Felicity Confetti Hearts cardstock, spelling the words LIVE LAUGH LOVE, I love this saying. For decoration I used one of two of the Carpe Diem Chipboard stickers One of the Pink Fresh Studio Puffy Sequins and one of the Elle's Studio Little Moments Bits & Pieces and I'm really pleased with how the card turned out.

I hope you like what I managed to come up with, this has now take place on an empty wall in my bedroom which I am going to fill with different frames. If you give something like this a go I'd love to see.
Until later...Happy Scrapping ~Zoe~

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