thursday... Best Creation GDT work travel collection

As the guest designer for the month of February I had the privilege to work with the new wonderful Travel Collection by Best Creation Inc.

Here's my first double page layout:

Supplies: cardstock: DCWV; patterned paper: Best Creation Inc. Travel Collection; embellishment: Sizzix die cuts; Flower: Prima, Recollections; chipboard: Thickers; ink: Tim Holtz Vintage Photo; Other: handmade butterflies and pearl bling

For my first project using this new line, I made a double layout. I loved the blues and greens and the deep red/brown was perfect for this layout since it matched my husband's shirt in the picture. The pictures are of us leaving Port of Miami on our first year anniversary cruise. When I do double pagers, I like for them to flow so for this layout I used vertical pictures and 1 horizontal picture, all the same size.


I added two embellishment clusters on opposing sides, on the top left and bottom right. I used the wonderful chipboard that it's included in this Travel Collection. It's a great weight and adds a lot of dimension to the layout. I also added some flowers, sizzix flourishes and my fave, handmade pearl flourishes. The travel line paper is so beautiful that I didn't wanted to cover it up with more layers so that's why I kept the background simple. To dress it up I did some machine stitching on it.


The Best Creation paper is a great weight for distressing and fuzzy cutting and best of all, it comes pre glittered! The luggage image on the left side and the compass on the right glittery are very glittery. You can even see it in the picture even though glitter is hard to photograph!

My next layout using this line was a bit more my style.


Supplies: cardstock: DCWV; patterned paper: Best Creation Inc. Travel Collection; embellishment: Prima Die Cut Felt Art, Sizzix die cuts; Flower: Recollections; letter stickers: Best Creation Inc. Travel Collection; chipboard: Best Creation Inc., Making Memories, Thickers; ink: Tim Holtz Vintage Photo; Other: handmade fabric flower, bling pearls

This is a picture of me in one of the cruise line's private island-our paradise for the day! I shaped the blue die cut paper and distressed the edges with a pair of scissors. I matted the picture in brown and the over a piece of the Best Creation Travel paper which I distressed with water. I added a Prima felt art die cut behind the picture and a Prima packaging piece of cardstock which happened to go perfectly with this line!


Again, I used Best Creations chipboard (tag and flower center) from the Travel Collection which are just marvelous! I embellished with flowers, the white fabric one was handmade by me, some chipboard flourishes by Making Memories, fuzzy cut leaves, camera sticker from the Travel Collection.


Last but not least, I finished it off with a handmade butterfly and pearl flourish.


For the title I used Best Creation's letter stickers, which I hand-stitched a line through it, for the word paradise and Thickers for the word found.

Thank you so much for taking your time to stop by my blog today! Have a wonderful rest of the day and week!