Hi friends, do I have a super fun challenge for you! Today we are creating with all the fabulous woodgrains in the Traci Reed Designs collections! There are so many beautiful wood grains, including patterned papers, alphabets, backgrounds, embellishments, that I know you will love this challenge This is my layout I will be creating to showcase some of these amazing woodgrains!

Of course I want to point out all of the woodgrain elements in this layout (including my photo!) but first let me share a list of the collections I found that feature woodgrain papers and embellishments (not intended to be exhaustive!)

I am sure there are some that I missed, but this is where I started at to create my layout, and I know you will love adding these collections to your digital stash!

For my layout, I felt like this would be a great opportunity to document our beautiful staircase in our new home. And you guessed it, the staircase is very woodgrain so it sets the perfect tone for all of the papers and embellishments I am hoping to add. For my background, I decided to bring in a lot of color with the colorful woodgrains from Story Foundations: Routines. I love these colors! I created a simple strip with a square of each color in Photoshop and then layered four of those strips behind the main background woodgrain.

As a second layer to the background, I created a bracket for the grey woodgrain. The bracket shape is a copy of the bracket title spot, I’ve simply enlarged it and clipped the woodgrain paper to it. I also cut it in half because I only wanted it on the bottom half of the layout. For the top of the background I’ve added these gorgeous mixed media elements with the darling hearts, and notice how the brown hearts happen to be woodgrain! As a final happy element on the background, I also added the pink sequins. Those sequins originally have leaf embellishments too, but they blended in with the woodgrain so I erased them.

To divide the top from the bottom, and also to ground the photo on the page, I also added ribbons across the page. They are stitched together digitally, which adds the perfect bit of texture without having to thread a machine. Notice that the stripe ribbon has a little brown running through it, and even though that is not technically woodgrain, it could be seen as such!

For my title, I used a woodgrain journal spot It has been altered just a bit – the original has flowers on one corner, but I already knew I was going to use larger florals so I copy and pasted half of the label, flipped it, and merged it to have a label with no flowers. The alphabets are some of my very favorites, because they are woodgrain and they come in blue, brown, green and red!

The rest of the layout was simply a matter of bringing in fun embellishments that help bring this story to life. I particularly love seeing flowers against a rustic woodgrain, so that is what I did. Notice how the colors in the embellishments tie in with the colors in the woodgrain strips going around the page! It’s kismet!

These are the list of embellishments and their collection:

Woodgrain pp used:

Border colorful wg are all Story Foundations: Routines
Background is Equinox
Bracket shape is Wildflower

Embellishments from Hygge Season:

Alphas
Bracket title spot
Tag
Bunny
Sign
Yellow Flower
Stitching
Scallop ribbon

Embellishments from Equinox:

Pink flower
Blue flower
Stripe ribbon
Sequin scatter (leaves redacted)

Embellishments from Radiate Joy:

Word strips
Mixed media background

I truly hope you have had fun playing along with this challenge to use up these gorgeous woodgrains! You can see my full process video here for more details.