'Live, Laugh, Love Always' Layout by Helen Tilbury

Hello everyone - Helen here again today with another layout share.

I recently received the new 'Happy Christmas'papers from Inkido 

& used them to create a non-Christmas layout.

For my background I used 'Happy Christmas'Winter Fence paper

& for my layers I used 'Happy Christmas' Happy Mix, Happy Music

& Vintage Ornament, all of which are double-sided & I used both sides

of 2 of them, so all in all I used 6 different Inkido prints on my layout.

To embellish my layout I used Fashion Flowers in Pink, but I sprayed them 

with mist to darken them to a rust colour.  I also used Cherry Blossoms

in Natural White, & white Inkido lace which I also misted to match. 

 I also used half a pack of Parlor Pearls in Champagne, also from Inkido.

I used a butterfly stamp from Inkido, which I dipped into mist sprayed

 onto my craft mat, so that the image would be hazy & ethereal.

I punched some butterflies out of patterned paper & dotted them around my layout,

using Inkido pearls for the centres.I used some fine silver thread, some mesh tape

& some chipboard to enhance the Inkido product & add some additional textures.

The Parlor pearls work well as anchors to hold down the thread in places.

The Winter Fence print on the background is a very beautiful textural-looking print,

which I enhanced with various different mists lightly sprinkled on it to tie all the 

different colours together.  I also tore, sanded, distressed & punched the papers.

I layered everything up lightly & also used the negative pieces of printed paper

that I punched the butterflies out of, adding in a central pearl to the negative shape.

I hope I have successfully shown you today how to use the beautiful new

Happy Christmas collection for your non-Christmas photos too.

See you again next month.  Helen