Combine Complementary Creativity With This Blue and Yellow Sunflower Scrapbook Layout

Posted on by Karyn McDermaid-Rolfe

Blue and yellow combos look balanced, peaceful, dynamic. And it’s easier than ever to achieve this brilliant aesthetic with the Heart to Help Paper Pack! The warmth, radiance and golden glints of yellow stands out against, yet complements, with the vivid and cool tones of blue to make your photos and memories pop with pizzazz and panache! Combine your special moments together with this sunflower scrapbook layout that is sure to catch everyone’s eye!

Psst! To further spread hope and support for Ukraine, in which their national hues are yellow and blue and national flower is the sunflower, you can order the Heart to Help Paper Pack and Creative Memories will donate all profits of this paper pack and the Digital Heart to Help Paper Pack to the International Rescue Committee, an institution helping displaced families who have fled Ukraine and providing them with necessary supplies.

To create this layout you will need:

Take a closer took at the Heart to Help Paper Pack in the video below!

Step 1: Cut blue dashes paper to 12″ x 3″ and adhere to the top of the light blue scattered dots paper.

Step 2: Cut yellow woven hearts paper to 12″ x 3″ and adhere to the bottom of the light blue scattered dots paper.

Step 3: Cut darker blue polka dots paper to two 12″ x 5/8″ strips. Cut small sunflowers paper to two 1/2″ x 12″ strips and adhere to the darker blue polka dots strips. Adhere borders to the paper seams on the layout.

Step 4: Cut darker blue polka dots paper to 2-1/4″ x 12″. Cut blue hearts paper to 2″ x 12″ and adhere to the darker blue polka dots strip. Adhere to the right side of the layout as shown.

Step 5: Use Micro-Tip Scissors to fussy-cut flowers from the large sunflowers paper and a column of hearts from the yellow woven hearts paper. Cut flowers in half. Adhere the hearts strip to the border with Foam Squares. Adhere the flower halves to both sides of the hearts strip as shown.

Step 6: With the inside edge of the second-smallest Custom Cutting System Oval Pattern and the Red Blade, cut ovals from various blue and yellow papers. With the inside edge of the medium Custom Cutting System Circle Pattern and Blue Blade, cut circles from various yellow and blue papers. Cut circles in half.

Step 7: Arrange and adhere the oval and semi-circle pieces to create partial flowers as shown.

Step 8: Crop two photos to 3-1/2″ x 5″. Crop one photo to 2-1/2″ x 4″ and mat with a 2-3/4″ x 4-1/4″ piece of darker blue polka dots paper. Adhere as shown.

Step 9: Adhere White Script ABC/123 Letter Stickers to a piece of light blue scattered dots paper and use Micro-Tip Scissors to fussy-cut, leaving a narrow paper frame around the title. Adhere title piece with Foam Squares and add a few additional hand-cut sunflowers as shown. 

Step 10: Journal with Navy Dual-Tip Pen.

What do you think of the yellow and blues on this sunflower scrapbook layout?

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