This weekend inspiration comes from the beautiful papers, chipboard and rubons from cherryArte. cherryArte patterned papers are wonderfully versatile and, although full of colour and life, they generally still cleverly manage to take a back seat and let the photos shine.
Caz has chosen the Boys Boys range of CherryArte products to document her son Jesse’s daily lament about having no brothers. How unfair that ALL his friends have brothers and he only ended up with sisters. The title is made with various Heidi chipboard alphabets and a CherryArte rub-on has a white circle sticker surrounding a section of it to highlight Jesse’s age at the time.
For this layout Mel selected the Seasons range of patterned papers combined with Cherry Arte dragon dream rubons and Heidi Swapp Scrapbook Scenery diamond drama 1 stickers. For the journaling (which she placed inside a Basic Grey bookplate - how cool are those bookplates!!) Mel used the black Cherry Arte rubon numbers to allow for point form journaling.
Suz couldn't resist this photo of Cheryl's two boys and combined it with the perfectly suited cherryArte Boys Boys range of papers. A dash of fab cherryArte chipboard arrows and letters and the relationship between these two was summed up pretty succinctly.
Mel handcut out the flowers from the Cherry Arte Fall Flowers patterned paper for this gorgeous layout of her daughter, and positioned them ever so slightly over her photograph. The flowers go well with the theme 'outside girl' and the bluey green tones make a great contrast against the Basic Grey double dark background paper.
We've also found some pretty amazing layouts using cherryArte papers around the online scrapbooking community, and we thank the following artists for allowing us to share their creations here.
We loved the large style poppet that Tania Davey created on this page using the Golden Haze range of patterned papers. The layout presents a real warmth and is just plain fun!
Maxine Hazebroek's page is incredibly soft and sweet with a dash of florals adding a true girly touch. We loved the warm classic coffee papers set against the black and white photos.
And there's more! Life is better upside down by Pam Callaghan is very eye catching. The clever use of circles with a dash of Incense (East of India range) direct the eye to the photos in the centre of the layout.
The Seasons range of patterned papers is often used on beach & Summer layouts, but here Beth Root has cleverly used the range with a more tradional photo. The results are spectacular!
Finally in this layout Loretta Grayson has let her photos tell the story by just adding a splash of the Midnight Rouge collection. Combined with her title and small journaling tags, the layout is certainly striking.