Start to Finish Layout | Gillian Nelson

I just love the look of shaker greeting cards and sequin-filled pockets in Project Life spreads that I see in the Member Gallery, but I don't do them myself nearly enough. For this layout, I challenged myself to create shaker pockets on a layout, and I'm really pleased with how it turned out. My sequin stash is going to take a major hit.

1. I started by cutting three triangle shapes using my Silhouette Cameo from a piece of 12x12 Kraft cardstock. I made the triangles 3 inches high and 3 inches wide, and grouped them in a grid. The negative space of the triangles will serve as my background for my layout. (This can also be done by drawing triangles on the paper and cutting them out with a craft knife.) I then cut the same size triangles from 3 different patterned papers from the Walden kit and add-ons, this time keeping the positive shapes for my design.

2. I inked the edges of the patterned paper triangles and adhered them to the front of my layout, pairing each of them with a negative-space triangle to form squares.

3. I cut two sheets of transparency film down to about 8x8 inches. I flipped the cardstock background over to the back side and adhered one sheet of transparency so that it was covering the triangle shapes. I then layered the second piece of transparency film over the first but only adhered two sides. This would help hold it in place but still allow me to lift it so that I could fill it with pretty baubles in a moment.

4. Pretty baubles! The gold and red sequins that came in the Concord and Pine Hill add-ons are perfect for my fall theme. I grouped three little piles of sequins and also fished out the woodgrain alphas from the Baker Bridge add-on, spelling out "FALL."

5. (This next part was tough for Ol' Shaky Hands McGee here, but if I can manage, anyone could.) I lifted the transparency, and placed the "L's" in the triangle that is at the top of the page. My layout is flipped over, so I was careful to put the letters upside-down and backwards, so that when the layout got turned over to the right side, they'd appear as they should. (Yes, I know that may seem obvious, but I had to remind myself of it every single time. We all have our strengths, people.) I then layered a group of sequins within the same triangle and over top of the letter. I wanted to be sure that the letters would not be covered up by the sequins when the layout is flipped, so they had to form the bottom layer as I assembled it. Then I gently lowered the top transparency sheet back down, and very carefully flipped the layout over, sandwiching it between my two hands so that the sequins stayed in place.

6. With the layout right-side-up, I sewed a seam right along the edge of the triangle, trapping those pretty little sequins within the shape. Whew! The shaky hands put up a fight, but I won out in the end. I repeated this process two more times, and it ended up looking like this.

7. Next, I added the thickers from the Pine Hill add-on to the upper left corner of the design, layering them with the die cut ampersand from the Concord add-on. I trimmed a piece of the leaf design from the lovely wood veneer piece in the Baker Bridge add-on and stapled it to the plaid triangle.

8. Lastly, I adhered my photo, added a piece of washi trim from the main Walden kit, and layered up some vellum leaves, the rest of the wood veneer piece, some labels, and a die cut heart. Then I added some journaling at the bottom.

Supplies: Walden Scrapbook Kit, Concord Add-on, Pine Hill Add-on, Baker Bridge Add-on, Metal Mini Stapler, StazOn Ink Pad-Jet Black, Precision Pen .05, Silhouette Cameo

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13 comments

  1. 1Djc says…
    11/25/2014

    This is awesome! They are also pretty much my favorite as well. :) Lovely layout!

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  2. PrinzessinN says…
    11/25/2014

    This is a lovely page. Thank you for sharing this with us.

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  3. patowle says…
    11/25/2014

    Lovely! Fall pages might just be my favorites.

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  4. MichelleWedertz says…
    11/25/2014

    This is such a great layout!

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  5. sillypea says…
    11/25/2014

    Another fabulous project by G... love your work, girl!

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  6. Charityroze says…
    11/25/2014

    Beautiful. Love the layout and the idea to use transparency. I've only tried it with clear vinyl I had on hand and that doesn't stay tight well.

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  7. PaigeR says…
    11/25/2014

    Love.

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  8. all_that_scrapbooking says…
    11/25/2014

    Your handwriting is just oooh so perfect!!!!! Jelaous!!

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  9. KMKTENN82 says…
    11/25/2014

    Love this - thanks for the step by step. Did you make those vellum leaves....I am seriously in love with them...

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  10. Shes_Crafty says…
    11/25/2014

    In love with this layout..Fall is prob. my favorite season for many reasons...
    I'm definitely going to do this.. Thanks for your tutorial..

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  11. heygillian says…
    11/25/2014

    Thank you, everybody! :)

    @KMKTENN82 -- The vellum leaves were in the Baker Bridge add-on, which is unfortunately sold out now. You could easily mimic the look by just hand cutting a simple leaf shape like this from vellum at home. You could even decorate the vellum first with gold paint pen or embossing powder.

    g

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  12. juliee says…
    11/26/2014

    Stealing this for sure

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  13. supertoni says…
    11/27/2014

    Such a great tutorial G. I will try this for sure. :-)

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