Hi Everyone. Hope you have had a great start to September and managing to find the time to keep your craft alive.
Today I have to share with you a layout that I created for a class. It features the wonderful Sea Breeze collection by Denise Boddey.
1.
Remove
the strip from your Weatherboard paper
and gently tear the paper from top to bottom, approximately in the middle. See the picture below.
2.
You
now have two pieces made from the Weatherboard
and will use both sides of the paper.
For the piece with the word SUMMER you will use the reverse.
3.
Rotate
each piece 90 degrees as above. Distress
the edges of both pieces of paper.
4.
Using
some texture paste and a stencil apply to the patterned paper. Remember to put some closer to the edges so
that it is seen once your photo and embellishments are added. Set aside to dry.
5.
The layout has 3 flowers, 1 x large Cottage
Pollen flower and 2 x Paper Magnolias.
Take the large Cottage Pollen flower
and ink all the tips of the petals in the blue/green ink. Using the same ink
dab over the Paper Magnolias with a
dauber or blending tool.
6.
Take
some pearlised spritz and spray the flowers with enough spray so the ink starts
to soften and blend.
7.
Dry
off the flowers using a heat gun or set aside to dry.
8.
Take
your white netting and ink it with the blue/green ink. Spritz with some pearlised spritz so it blends
and absorbs into the cotton of the net. Set aside to dry or dry with a heat
gun.
9.
Mat
your photo using a corner of the Hippodrome
grey cardstock. Adhere foam tape to back of the grey cardstock.
10.
Cut
a second rectangle our of the Hippodrome grey
cardstock as 5 x 7” in size
11.
Take
the Silver Sands patterned paper and
cut two pieces of 4 x 6” in size in portrait. I trimmed the tab off the top of the paper and cut one vertical strip at 4" and 12" long (portrait) , then cut in half to give your the 2 x pieces of 4x6". You then have a 8" x 12" piece left for your fussy cutting later.
12.
Take
the Bottom of the Sea patterned paper
and cut a piece as 5 x 7” in size in landscape
13.
From
the Silver Sands remaining paper, cut
out at least 4 of the shells, a large compass and a ship’s wheel.
14.
Cut
out the following dies:
1 x sea horse in the Hippodrome grey
cardstock
1 x set of 4 shells - 2 in Hippodrome grey
and 2 in the Charming blue/green
cardstock
4 x coral in the Hippodrome grey
cardstock
15.
Adhere
all the die cuts to cardstock with glue.
I used alternate colours, that is, if the die cut was in the grey I
adhered it to the blue/green and vice versa.
16.
Fussy
cut all the die cuts.
17.
Using
a cream colour ink pad and blending tool, soften the edges or the grey and blue/green
cardstock on the shells and seahorse.
18.
Take
your matted photo and adhere to the Bottom
of the Sea 5 x 7” piece that was cut out earlier. Offset it slightly to the
left side.
19.
Take
the other three pieces that you cut out and distress all the edges.
20.
Using
the grey as a base mat the two prints on top of each other, the greenish print
towards the top left, and the cream print more centred. As per the main
picture.
21.
Take
the natural twine and snip off a small piece, big enough to use to attach your
charm. Wrap the remaining twine three times around your mounted photo and
adhere it to the back. Take your small piece of snipped twine and adhere the
charm to around the twine that you just wrapped around the photo.
22.
Take
your distressed Weatherboard
patterned paper and place them on to the Battle
Fatigue green cardstock, do not adhere yet.
You will notice that the paper overlaps on either side. Tear off more of the patterned paper (either
the top or bottom piece) so that more of the Battle Fatigue green shows. See main photo. Once you are happy with how it looks add glue
or double sided tape to the reverse approximately 1cm or ½” from the edge.
Once it is attached play with the edges and distress them further with your
fingers so that the green Battle Fatigue
cardstock shows more around the edges.
23.
Finally
it is all about the layering of the background papers and your newly created
embellishments. Once you have attached
the three background papers take the netting and attach it approximately at the
half way point down the paper. I found
glue works best to ensure it won’t come loose at a later time. Add your matted photo and then finish adding
your die cuts, flowers, cabochon and fussy cut seashells, anchor and ships
wheel.
I left enough space at the bottom of the page so that I could add what ever
size title I wanted that matched my photo.
And….. you’re done .
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Until next time... keep crafting
Anita
xx
