This week we look at the clean lines and colour blocked style of Suz Doyle. She is attracted to grids and framed styles where everything has a place and will often divide her layouts into sections mentally, even when there aren’t actual lines on the page.
This week, we would love to see your interpretations of Suz’s graphic, colour blocked style. Please send in your layouts to [email protected] by next Wednesday 15th June for a chance to win a prize pack of goodies!
Greens and neutrals are often her go-to colours for her bases, and from there her colour palette is generally soft, gelato tones – a little stronger than pastels but still light and airy. She will almost always try to include more than one photo on a page and regularly produces double pages for her albums.
She will often combine slightly odd elements – Prima’s Fairy Flora range mightn’t be the first one you’d think of to partner up with Crate Paper Neighbourhood embellishments, but here she shows it can work. She loves including bling and has only recently discovered the fabulousness of the Martha Stewart edge punches, so I suspect you’ll be seeing more of them on her future pages.
Though this is a slightly more random page in terms of design, there are still areas both of blocking and a strong sense of everything being in its place. The photo and recipe blocks are matted as is the cardstock, and the whole thing is linked by a BasicGrey transparency. Another of her big scrappy loves are transparencies, something you will find on many of her pages. And it’s a rare page where you won’t find a story, either printed or handwritten, as recording the memory is what is at the very core of her scrapbooking passion.
Stephanie Dagan from France, who was a Garden Girl at TwoPeas for sometime, was a revelation to Suz a few years back. Every one of Stephanie’s scrapbook pages to Suz seems perfection. They both embrace many of the same principles in their pages – multiple photos, soft colours, colour blocking – and Suz loves that Stephanie also always includes the story (even though it’s in French and she can’t read it!).
Stephanie’s sense of design is impeccable – her pages are beautifully balanced and though they often include multiple patterns and colours, they all seem to serve the simple purpose of framing and enhancing her wonderful photographs.
Thanks so much Stephanie for allowing us to share your layouts and your talent in this post.