Sep
13

My boys…

Posted by DeAnna

Sorry for the late post today. Kyle’s first day of preschool was today and I’ve been trying to get the photos of the layout below just right, so it’s been a little busy here ;D

I am at 197 downloads of my digi stuff which you can find HERE and HERE!! When I reach 200 I will be posting my mini kit that I completed for the Art of Digital Design class at JessicaSprague.com. It will have 6 papers and 6 elements. I have way more papers than that, and several other elements in the works, so I will be posting a full kit for sale in the near future. You’ll be hearing more about that in the next few days when I’ve gotten everything set up. ;D Don’t worry, though, there will still be freebies available on my blog, and new freebies from time to time too

I completed another layout this past weekend. I decided to switch to doing mostly one-page layouts, with the occasional double page layout when I have too many photos. I think I’ll get more layouts done that way. And, I have to tell you it’s so much easier to layer when you’re working with one page!! See what I mean:

All of the papers are Fancy Pants from the My Family line. I used the papers called Father, Son and Family Tree. The title is plain white cardstock from my stash (stuff that I have been given while at crops or classes and I’m not sure what brand they are). I cut it out with my Silhouette (I used the text feature and created my own title). I inked it with Chocolate Ancient Page ink and then sprayed them with perfect pearls. I cut out a background and the funky circles from images I downloaded from the Silhouette store. I used two of my EK Success border punches (Okay, I’ll admit it – I only have two! ;D). I love the embossed bracket border punch, and the notebook paper punch as well.

I made the flower with my Silhouette, cut out the images, spritzed them with water, scrunched them up, then unfolded them and let them dry. Then I inked a bit with Faded Jeans distress Ink, sprayed with a bit of blending solution and let it dry again. The I sprayed each flower with Perfect Pearls and let them dry again. Lastly, I punched a hole in the middle of each layer with my paper piercer and then put a jeweled brad through all the layers. To make the frilly ribbon and the other flowers, I simply had some really soft, almost suede-like ribbon and I took some of my DMC floss, strung a running stitch through it, and voila! Frilly ribbon. It likes to curl up on itself so I took some of it and made them into pinwheel flowers. You can do it with almost any fabric, or even a thin felt.