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Rainbow Love -Paper Issues

Hey y’all! Courtney here and today I am sharing what I created for the Craft the Rainbow Challenge over in the Paper Issues Facebook group. 

Here's a look at my entire layout: 


For this layout, I used the Happiness collection by Cocoa Vanilla. Isn't this collection stunning? The colors scream Spring to me and I cut into as soon as I received it. That almost NEVER happens. I always want to hoard my favorite things and this is definitely a new favorite! 

Anywho, onto the layout. I had two pictures printed out of me in 3x4 and figured I’d use them. I feel like my black shirt really pops against these colors.

I decided to use this line for the Craft the Rainbow challenge for obvious reasons. I mean come on, those colorful butterflies were screaming to be fussy cut, and that's exactly what I did! 


I was going to leave the butterflies spread out all of a sheet of white cardstock. Then I saw the rainbow page and I decided to color block everything. 

Here you can see how I folded up some of the butterflies to add some dimension and then I added the enamel dots in the coordinating 
colors. A few of the butterflies came from the ephemera pack, accessory stickers, and the clear sticker sheet. I also cut the butterflies from the 12x12 paper and the 6x8 paper pad. I left a few with a white border to match the ones from the ephemera pack. I basically used any butterfly that I could. There’s no such thing as to many, right? 


For my photos I matted them each on two different frames from the 12x 12 sheet Frame of Mind. The photo on the left is popped up with foam and the right is just glued straight to the page. I’ve also added a tab, some pink glitter washi, a butterfly, and word stickers. 


I added a little cluster with a flower from the sticker sheet, a butterfly, and a heart enamel. I popped it up on foam along with the heart and the plus sign. The now is straight on the paper. I added flair and gold Heidi Swapp Color Shine to finish it off. 

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