Guest Designing with PageMaps

This month Paper House's design team is guest designing for PageMaps. PageMaps is a great site that produces new sketches each month for whatever style of scrapbooker you might be! They have double page spreads, 8 1/2 X 11, multi-photo and more!  I worked with an 8 1/2 X 11 sketch for my layout!

Sketches are always a fun way to speed up the design process a bit and get those creative juices flowing!  I decided to dive into the Colorways Orchid Collection for my layout.

I used a combination of patterned papers, the accent pack, and puffy stickers throughout the layout.

For the top of my layout I decided to fussy cut part of the Orchid Tapestry Paper so that I could add some dimension to the flowers.  After cutting it down to size I put foam adhesive pieces beneath select petals so that they would pop up.  A couple pieces from the Accent Pack helped add some silver in up top.

The frames from the Accent Pack were perfect for the small pictures the layout called for! The Accent Pack also had the right pieces to make a pretty title.  The Peace Puffy Stickers added some extra dimension and silver alongside and below the pictures.

Have you had a chance to check out the new Colorways Collections yet? I'm not sure which I love most!