THE THOUGHT BEHIND THE PROCESS

Have you ever wondered what the artist was thinking when they created their artwork. Whether it be a textile or mixed media artist, painter, paper arts artist or scrapbooker.

I thought I would take one of my projects or layouts and explain why I put that flower in just that spot, or why I chose to use ‘that’ particular color or why I added no mats to my photos.

It’s quite interesting when you start to dissect your work – or that of artists that you admire.

Pre-making pages with no photos.

This is my first layout that I would like to dissect and share my thoughts about with you. It is titled “A quiet moment”. It was created while at a friend’s house doing some scrapping. I had no photos whatsoever. But thought I can create a layout without a picture with me to use.

I had this beautiful piece of cardstock and then picked out two of the colors on it to go with my project. I had some bling, chipboard and some paper ribbon with me – how could I not create something.

Now down to the creating of the layout. I did not have a sketch to work from but I really wanted to try using a large circle on my layout as i have seen how effective they can be. I created that by using a round dinner plate. I used my corner rounder on the other two square papers to give them a softness and follow with the roundedness of the circle. To give a little depth to the piece i distressed the edges of my papers.

After layering all papers I adhered a couple of rows of the paper ribbon towards the bottom of the layout – making sure I ‘tied in the layers’ by running the ribbon across all layers. Being a pastel/girl layout i wanted to add a little sparkle so bling was added to the arc – mirroring it on the opposite side, top and bottom. At the top of the page I felt that it was not balanced as there was a lot of ‘open space’ so I added two small strips of the paper ribbon, a heart & a chipboard flower – this helped tie in with what was at the bottom of the page as I had no large titles on this layout.

Because I had no pictures at the time – I used two card blanks and popped them in the spots while I decided on placement for the chipboard pieces… sounds too easy doesn’t it. Bling was also added to the chipboard flowers to enhance the 'girly' look of the page.

After about a week I found some pictures that had similar colors as the printed paper and added them. A little journaling by using some small stickers and the layout was all done.

I have been creating a few layouts like this with left over papers and they sit ready for their photo which is usually within the next week or so.

You should give this a go – choose all your papers and embellishments and then wait for the photo to find its way to your layout. You can use this layout as a sketch if you like too.

We would love to see what you can create using this process. Why not pop it in the gallery.
http://www.scrapncraftwitht.com.au/gallery

Products included in this layout are:

• Basic Grey - Urban Prairie
• Kaisercraft Bling
• Paper Raffia
• Carolee Creations Adornit tiny Alphas
• Chipboard Shapes

You will find these products and more at Scrap N Craft with T....

Have a great week creating
Tracey