February Layout 2 by Nicola Campbell

This layout is quite different to my last one from these kits, and all the vintage brown tones are a little out of my regular comfort zone, but I think it suits the photos quite well and I'm happy with how it came together in the end. The photos were taken during our half term visit to Statfold Country Park (a great place for train lovers; I still have the train photos to scrap), which includes a vintage fairground museum - so I pushed myself to go for it with the vintage colour palette.

I didn't want my background cardstock to be too starkly white, given the vintage feel I was going for, so I used the packaging technique with a combination of 49 and Market inks - Cappuccino to start and then some Salted Caramel worked in - to create a central splatter zone behind where my photos and main cluster were going to go, and then rubbed some more of those inks around the remaining white space using a blending tool, just enough to take the edge off the white.

I cut a bunch of the ticket shapes out of the SBB1106 Mixed Backgrounds Patterned paper from the main kit (the side with the ace of spades on it) and overlapped these to form a central background cluster around my photos, which I double-matted on the Bazzill Twig and Bark cardstocks from the main kit. Then I added some run-ons, some from the kit and then I added a few little bits from my stash too, to create little details around the photos and tickets. The sepia filmstrips came from the rub-on selection I got in the main kit (different kits come with different selections); the other rub-on sets I used for the words, hearts and butterflies are mentioned in the supplies list below.

I then built on my cluster details with a couple of postage stamps from 49 and Market Vintage Artistry Ticket Essentials (the ones I've used are from the Plum set to pick out some of the more reddish colours in the bumper cars photo; the Plum set is not currently available on the website, but there are a wide selection of other colours to choose from and I've added a link to that selection in the supplies list below). I also added the Prima butterfly embellishment from the add-on kit (I took off the foam pad it came with and added a couple of little foam strips behind the outer edges of the wings so that they will stick up rather than the middle of the butterfly), and a little wooden "love" piece (which I think I got in a little Bramble Fox freebie at an event). The "stay curious" chipboard phrase sticker in that righthand cluster is from Stamperia's Secret Diary collection, which has a similar vintage colour palette.

For my last finishing touch, I turned the antique camera from my rub-on selection in the main kit into a piece of cardstock ephemera by inking up a small piece of white cardstock with the 49 and Market Cappuccino ink (again, so it wasn't too starkly white), applying the rub-on, and then fussy cutting around it and raising it on foam strips.

49 and Market Dye Ink Pad - Cappuccino

Stamperia Daisy Art Borders Rub-on Transfers

Stamperia Secret Diary Chipboard Phrases

Simple Stories Simple Vintage Junk Drawer Rub-on Transfers

49 and Market Vintage Bits Ticket Essentials - Plum (selection of other colours available here)