Today i am going to go through the process of how my layout ended up the way it did.... this layout was from the 52 Week challenge that I take part in as I mentioned above. The topic for this particular week was - 'what's a personality trait you admire or seek in others - why?... the mind boggles when you end up with things like this.......it either comes to you straight away or you are doomed and rack your brain for days.
I was really happy with my finished product, so here is the explanation :
Each of my layouts that I have been creating have been based on 6" x 9" cardstock. I start with a piece of basic cardstock that i truly do not like the color of and transform it into each of my layouts.
The printed yellow background that you see in this layout was created from a digital kit and printed on standard A4 photocopy paper. I adhered the background using glue. After the paper was adhered the whole thing looked a little drab, but i felt it had a nice old world look to the paper and just needed a splash of color and a few layers.
Texture paste is my friend... and after adding a small amount to my paint pallet with a paint spatula I added a touch of paint to give it a similar color to what the printed paper was. Using my paint spatula I adhered the texture paste sporadically around the edges and made a small sweep of it across the center of the page. I then let this dry .... waiting for paint to dry is like artists torture - truly.
So keeping myself busy while the drying process was happening I thought up my journalling. I chose some 7gypsies paper which was cut and loaded into my printer to print the journalling on. I then selected some vintage lace ribbon, a few buttons, a 7 gypsies tag and more paper which i scalloped. Once the Texture paste had dried the layering of my journalling block was first, then the tag, the vintage lace and then the scalloped paper.
For added dimension I zig zag stitched the scallop paper onto my layout. I added the three buttons for a little more attention to the beautiful bird tag. I felt that the layout needed a little more to help balance out the open space that was on the right so i cut out some butterflies out of printed paper and adhered them to the layout.
Finally to add more depth i gave the layout a border by adding some dark brown ink to the outer edges
enjoy your crafting week
tracey
3 comments:
that is the coolest thing! first off I think it is beautiful.....but I really like the idea of suing stuff that you just flat out dont like. I think we all have pieces of stock or papers that come in collections that we just aren't crazy about. I just bought a huge batch of cardstock at big lots in a grab bag sorta thing. I thought i was getting several different types.....wrong!!!! I have like 100 sheets of stock in mabe 4 patterns.....lol. So this is a really inspiring blog post for me to read. Thank you so much for the inspiration!!!
WOW Trace this is brillant, thanks so much for sharing!
luv tanXx
I so love your collage work Tracey. TFS. Alz :)
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