Kathie often reflects how different her childhood home was to the house in which she is raising her five year old son, Jamie. Kathie is one of two girls and their childhood home was predominantly a girl zone: Barbie dolls, princesses and fairies, toy ovens, ballet slippers and tulle. These days Kathie lives within a house full of colour, well every colour except pink it would seem.
She muses how she has become so accustomed to being the mum of a boy that she found it a challenge recently to navigate the pink aisle at Target. She was in search of a birthday present for a three year old girl and realised she was completely clueless as she scanned rows of pink Barbies, Dora the Explorers and Pretty Ponies. Who would have thought she’d now be more at home in the boy aisle with its superheroes, Bob the Builder and Thomas the Tank Engine?!
Kathie’s created a colourful vintage page incorporating imagery of the style found in the books she grew up with. She’s paired Crate Paper’s new Toy Box line (delightfully vintage and boyish) with bits and bobs from Cosmo Cricket’s Material Girl collection (sweetly girly). A bright red background and ledger paper to write on kept the whole vintage vibe while injecting happy colour into the project.
Louise wanted a retro feel to this 70's themed layout, and the Basic Grey Marjolaine range was just perfect. In the journalling she wanted to reflect with fond memories that while the world has changed, the things that keep childhood innocent didn't have to. Louise created floral clusters by hand and combined them with the Marjolaine stickers that were adhered to black cardstock and then trimmed leaving a border to make them pop off the page.