The Morning Scrapper

Good Morning,

Today I have an Easter Layout that is a perfect scrapbooking version of the book “If you give a mouse a cookie…..”.

My picture is of my littlest one’s excitement at finding his first Easter Egg. I knew I wanted to do this page in the style of a scene instead of a traditional layered look.

So I opened up my Silhouette software and started designing. I started out with layers of grass and some Easter Eggs.

But the page looked empty so I added hills. Green hills made it hard to see where the grass ended so I did brown as some of our local hills were still showing winter brown. Then I weaved the Easter Eggs into the grass but they looked plain so I had to add glitter and Nuvo Dots.

Nuvo Pure Sheen in Glitter Diamonds

Nuvo Crystal dots in buttermilk and gloss white along with stickler in glacier blue

Then there was too much brown. So I decided to add spring flowers to the grass and some of the layers in the hills. But there were large gaps that made the hills look empty with too much brown showing, so I cut more eggs. Then I noticed my layout was getting bottom heavy so I tried to combat that with Chocolate Easter Bunnies as picture holders but again too much Brown. I added some pink and white paper with writing on it.  It was fine but still needed more , so I added green eyes and some ribbon.

The picture holding bunnies are a cut file from Lori Whitlock, this is one of three bunny designs in the cut file. I used the mirror feature to cut the second one.

Then the papers for the picture and base were looking out of place, so I added brown layers to tie all the brown together. While I am not 100% happy, I finally have this extremely embellished “scene” layout for my little one who was very excited about finding his first Easter Egg.

Thanks for stopping by and reading.

Until next time…..

If you’re interested in what I used…..

• Silhouette Cameo
• Die cut download from Silhouette  Store
  • Echo Park flowers and Eggs from the Easter Collection
  • Grass from Silhouette
  • Bunnies are from the 3 easter bunnies cut file by Lori Whitlock
• Tonic Studios Nuvo crystal drops in buttermilk and Gloss white
• Tonic Studios Nuvo glitter in snowflake
• Dimensional tape, Foam tape
• Echo Park Easter Paper Collection (I bought a ton of it last year)
• Glue dots and Scor-tape to make glitter stripes and dots on eggs.