'Tis the season to be thinking of fun-filled outdoor celebrations! I designed this scrapbook layout for a caterer's portfolio. The event was a post-wedding brunch held under open tents on a beautiful up-island property on Martha's Vineyard.
The Mad Hatter-theme of the brunch allowed for whimsical and colorful food and floral displays in a fabulous collaboration between acclaimed florist and stylist Louise Sweet and "caterer to the stars" V. Jaime Hamlin.
The event was more fun than you can imagine, and as a scrapbook designer, my job was to capture the fun through my choice of photographs, scrapbook papers, and embellishments. Perhaps I would have been a little less formal with my layout had it not been intended for a portfolio -I may have chosen a few less photos and may have placed them willy-nilly to echo the tumbling cups and saucers used in the flower arrangements, but I think I've managed to capture the essence of the affair. Here's a closer look at the individual scrapbook pages:
As you may have guessed, the title, "Mad Hatter Tea Party" was cut out with my Cricut die-cutting machine. -I used the negative portion of the green cardstock for the "Mad Hatter" and adhered the quotation marks and the "Tea Party" letters individually onto the layout after they were cut.
I do love my Cricut...so much nicer to have the ability to make letters out of the colors and papers I need for a particular layout, rather than having to depend on sticker letters that are often not available in the size or color needed. The Cricut Die-Cutting Machine is made by ProvoCraft, and is a great investment for avid scrapbookers -especially if you manage to snag one on sale, as I did. I use mine mainly for titles and tags, so I own a few cartridges that offer me a variety of fonts, but there are all sorts of shapes available on the cartridges that many people enjoy using for embellishments on cards or scrapbook pages. It's nice if someone in your cropping circle or your scrapbooking workshop owns one that you all can share.
Off to enjoy a few rays of sun...I hope this post made you smile
Happy Memorial Day weekend, Enikö
(Photography by Nichole Friedler Photography and Enikö DeLisle)
