Stay Wild Moon Child Guest Designer for Lady Pattern Paper

by Julie Schinkel on Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Hi everyone! After a short hiatus I'm back creating and blogging. Recently I was lucky enough to score a three month guest design spot for Lady Pattern Paper. Over the coming months, I'll be sharing lots of projects created with three of their beautiful collections.

Who is Lady Pattern Paper?

"Lady Pattern Paper stepped into the South African paper craft industry as a supplier in May 2015. Born from a dream by founder and proud owner Bernike Coetzee, to bring core & limited designs, produced locally in an attempt to offer South Africans a little piece of homegrown goodness." (taken from Lady Pattern Paper's Facebook page).

This is my first layout created with the beautiful Moon Child collection titled "Stay Wild Moon Child". Love the astrological, spiritual vibe of this collection. I've included a quick tutorial and close up photos below to show how this layout was created.

To start cut a 1/2 to 1 inch frame from the black cardstock provided in the pack.

Trim either one 1/2 of an inch from two sides (only) or 1/4 of an inch from each side of the Galaxy 12x12 patterned paper. Adhere this piece to the black cardstock frame.

Fussy cut the elements from the Polygons 12x12 patterned paper outlined in the image below. For this layout I did follow the outline to leave an edge around each element.

Trim all elements from the Wild Chipboard Elements set including the support frame. File down any leftover bits from where the elements were attached. Adhere the frame slightly off centre to the centre of the base, this will allow extra room for the cluster.

Mat your photo onto some of the leftover black cardstock. Adhere over the frame on a slight angle (optional) with foam tape.

Adhere elements into a cluster as shown in the final layout. I've cut out the moth from the large floral piece and just used the floral parts.

Adhere the chipboard moon over the bottom right cluster with foam tape. I've used two layers of foam tape to allow for the height of the photo. Adhere the words "Stay Wild" and "Moon Child" as shown on the final layout.

Add some clear shimmer (product of your choice) to the chipboard pieces for some shimmer and shine. I've used a clear shimmer brush pen but you could also use a clear shimmer pen or even just clear embossing powder if you don't have a shimmer pen.

To finish, add some gold gems randomly around the layout to add extra some extra shine.