Love Love Love | Tarrah McLean

Hi Cut Shoppe friends!

It's Tarrah McLean back with you to share a new love themed layout in honour of Valentine's Day!

Love Struck cut file

I used the Love and Adore collection by Simple Stories together with this cut file. I chose to cut the cut file out from the maroon paper with the small white spots and I love how it looks against the white background.

I placed my layers and photo to the left of the cut file to fill the space in front of the letter 'L's'. I then placed a heart embellishment cluster at the bottom of my photo to also fill in some more space.

I also layered some stickers over the 'O's' in the Love words in the cut file. The circle sticker I popped up with some foam dots and the hearts were placed down flat. I then also made another small cluster over on the right hand side to balance the left with the right.

There are so many gorgeous love themed cut files in The Cut Shoppe store to make your designs really shine, check them out. Ashley is always adding gorgeous new designs in the shop!

Happy creating! 

Back To School | Tarrah McLean

Hi there Cut Shoppe friends!

It's Tarrah McLean back with you and today I am sharing a Back to School themed layout. Down here in Australia, all the kids have just gone back to school after a long 6 week summer holiday. I always like to take my boys photos right at the start of the year when they go back!

The Back To School cut file was the perfect cut file to use on page...I love how all the fun colours from the papers look behind the title.

One of my favourite techniques is to back cut files with patterned papers. Once I had it all backed, I added foam adhesive to the back and adhered the whole thing to the grey striped background paper. I also added foam adhesive underneath my photos so they sat at the same height as the cut file on the page.

I love how the Star Student collection from Bella Blvd compliments this cut file, I didn't have a lot of it left but managed to find papers for all the spaces and just a few embellishments was all it needed to make it eye-catching and tell the story.  

I love how the foam adhesive adds the shadow and gives the page some dimension and life. I also added foam adhesive underneath the scalloped circle with the owl in the centre. I added stickers both tucked in under the cut file title and also on the top too.  

There are many cut files in The Cut Shoppe store that are similar to this large title one, so why not have a look in the store and give a layout like this a try? I would love to see it!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Happy creating!