Day of the Dead - Week #41

Hi Ladies!

Today I'm going to share my layout and it is all about the "Day of the Dead"  and a little of what is this Mexican holiday.

Day of the Dead or Dia de Muertos.. is a holiday we celebrate in Mexico in particular the Central and South regions.. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died and help the support their spiritual journey.. Traditions connected with the holiday include building private altars called "Ofrendas" honoring the deceased using sugar skulls marigolds and the favorite beverages and food of the departed, also visiting graves to be with the souls of the departed.. the intent is to encourage visits by the souls, so the souls will hear the prayers and the comments of the living directed to them.. Celebrations can take a humorous tone, as celebrants remember funny events and anecdotes about the departed.

Jose Guadalupe Posada created a famous print of a figure he called La Calavera Catrina.. as a parody of a Mexican upper-class female..

I went in 2012 to Guadalajara Mexico and as I said in central Mexico they decorate everywhere with paper mache Catrinas.. I took some pictures and some I use in my layout..

We always can use papers even if they are for a different occasions.. This paper is Christmas paper but I think it was perfect for my layout!

 This iron transfer was my inspiration for this Layout... As you know I love fussy cutting so I cut the Iron transfer with my excellent Westcott Craft Titanium non stick scissors!!! and was perfect to embellish my layout!

This is a simple-easy layout and I use 3 photos! 

 

The Catrina Skull is a great embellish and I add some pearls with my Pearl Pen.. 

Also I add some Molding Paste and Embossing powders from Color Box to give more color.. Day of the dead is also a lot of color!

I just did my Title with my lovely Sakura White Pen.. some flowers from my stash and ready!!! 

I hope you get some inspiration and see you next Tuesday with another fabulous Layout-A-Week!

Supplies:
Westcott Brand - Craft Titanium Scissors, Self healing cutting mat, TrimAir Trimmer
Fancy Pants "Oh Deer" Paper Collection
Crafty Chica - Day of the Dead Iron-on transfer
Pentart - Pearl Pens " Lilac, Morning Glory and Poppy
Aleen's - Turbo Tacky Glue
Color Box - Embossing Powders
Golden - Molding Paste
Sakura - White Pen

WEEK 4 - WORKING WITH SCRAPS

Hi everyone, Nancy here today.  Do you ever have scraps of paper you really want to use, but just don't have quite enough to really make the page work?  How about a few techniques to fill in those blank spaces.

Supplies Used:

• Glitz Designs Patterened Papers, Chipboard, Overlay, Stickers
• Prima Marketing Flowers, resin

Step 1:  I had quite a few photos from this day at the beach so I began by plaing them in an eye pleasing arrangement.  I love making multi-photo pages as they really can set a mood for the event.

Step 2:  Knowing I needed to make this a two page layout I began cutting my scrap papers to stretch across the two pages.  Since the second page had fewer large photos, I started with it.  It is easiest to hide the missing pieces of paper when you have large photos to cover.

Step 3:  As you can see, I didn't have quite enough of the "wave" paper to go all the way across the first page.  I added a bit of stripe along the right side, but that still left a hole on the left.

Step 4:  I used one of the large stickers from the collection to hide the missing paper and added my photos.  Since you can't see under the stickers, you can't tell there isn't paper underneath.

Step 5:  After mounting one of my stickers onto additional patterned paper, I attached my other photos, a few stickers and a piece of an overlay to the second page and my layout was complete.

Had I not said anything, no one would have ever guessed that I pieced this page together with odd bits of leftover paper scraps.

My scraps are often some of my favorite papers and I love using each and every piece.

Week #47 Multi Photo Fall Layout - Nancy

Hi everyone.  Nancy here today to share with you a quick layout that you can use with multiple photos.

Supplies Used:

• Simple Stories - Homespun Patterned Papers, Chipboard, Stickers
• Prima - Lace

Step 1:  Cut an 8 inch square from inside the yellow ginham paper for future use.  This is a great way to save a patterned paper for a coordinating page.

Step 2:  Mount photos on a neutral piece of paper, leaving a bit of a border on the bottom for embellishments.  I chose to have three photos (one of each of my children) and a title piece.  But you could use more or less photos, filling in the squares with whatever your needs are.

 Step 3.  Cut floral paper to 10 inches and mount in the center of the yellow gingham paper.

 Step 4.  Center matted photos on floral paper.  Add border sticker just below photos.

If you like, you could stop here.  I chose to embellish the layout just a bit further by adding a bit of lace right under the border sticker, a floral sticker in the upper left corner, and a few chipboard pieces in the lower right.

And here is the companion page as well.

You can see that piece of yellow gingham paper behind my photo, and the floral paper as well.  More of the stickers and chipboards from the collection as well as bits of lace tie the two layouts together.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs.