Hello everyone and welcome to my July DT layout!! Today I have a patriotic layout for you in keeping with our theme this month. But, I am from Canada so it's all about the maple leaf and the red and white here. July 1st is Canada Day and it also happens to be my youngest son's birthday. So I knew I had the perfect photo to scrap in keeping with this theme. His first birthday!
Yes, this photo is from 2005 and I have never scrapped in our family album before. I did up a first year book but our family albums from 2003-2007 are pretty sparse. As I was very busy with 2 boys under the age of 5 at the time. So I am thrilled to get this scrapped.
I used my Silhouette to cut out this giant maple leaf and then kept the layout predominantly red and white with some touches of navy and gold. I hope you enjoy. See my process video below.
Supply List:
Cardstock: American Crafts.
Patterned paper: Webster's Pages and Carta Bella.
Alpha stickers: Gold - Studio Calico, Black - unknown.
Embellishments: Layered stickers - Carta Bella, Wood veneer - Shimelle for American Crafts, sequin stars, puffy hearts - American Crafts and Crate Paper; glassine envelope - unknown.
Hi everyone! Here is my layout for the month of June. I live on an island (albeit a very large one) and the part that I LOVE the most about that is having such easy access to the beach and the ocean at anytime I want. I find visiting the ocean to be the most relaxing and stress-relieving thing in the world and whenever life gets to me... that is where I go.
This photo is from earlier in the spring but the message is how we all love the beach and that the weather has now improved so we can go again. Don't get me wrong... we go year round here (and are grateful for that) but being able to go and be warm and not worry about layers is awesome. As is walking in the surf or day-dreaming on a log.
Here is my layout:
I wanted to keep this layout fairly simple although I will confess I had planned to use a heart stencil and modeling paste to add a few hearts or some texture behind my layers. Oh well! I did however want to tone down my background paper so I applied a fairly liberal coat of gesso to it (thus the curly edges, sorry!). I used a scraper to put it on and as it dries pretty quick I layered it on as I went just working from top corner to bottom corner and once I went back up to the top it was dry enough to add a bit more. I think I added it about 3 times to get to this level of opacity.
I also, as you can see in the video, used my very old Heidi Swapp distress tool on the edges of the top and bottom strips. I just didn't want them to be too flat.
Hello again everyone and thanks for joining me for my reveal of my Layout-A-Week layout for May. This month we were asked to look at the theme of Mom's as it is Mother's Day this month. I decided to go WAY back to how I made MY mom a mom.
For this layout I decided to step out of my comfort zone of colours and use more vintage-y themed products and also use some more feminine touches of ribbon and flowers. I am really quite pleased with how it turned out and think it really compliments the photo well.
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