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It’s a zoo around here!
I thought I would show you my zoo layout next. This is from the same trip as our July 2007 trip to Iowa and Minnesota I spoke about in an earlier post. We went to the Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo and I was amazed at some of the animals there. We didn’t get to see the whole zoo, only a few parts of it, but we got some really good shots. I wanted to do something a bit different for this layout. I knew I wanted to use the map I found on the zoo’s website, so I saved the picture (right click, save as). (I also saved the picture of the zoo’s logo and had it printed with my photos.) I opened the map in Photoshop and made it the size I wanted it to be. Then I printed it off on my home printer. It was almost a full letter sized map by the time I was done with it, but there was a lot of blank space around the edges of the shape of the zoo so I tore the edges and inked them with my new Distress Ink, Rusty Hinge. The color of the map happened to match exactly the paper set I wanted to use (Three Bugs In A Rug, Animal Stackers).
I used Rusty Hinge around the edges of my background paper as well. I wanted to highlight my photos with some hand drawn outlines and used some arrows from a Cuttlebug die that I put through with my Sizzix Big Shot and then inked them with Rusty Hinge and Faded Jeans. I circled the areas of the zoo that the photos represented and used the arrows to point from the map to the photo that matched it. I used my EK Success edge punch for the bracket shapes on the bottom right underneath the die cut “at the zoo” which I cut with my Silhouette. I used Faded Jeans around the edges of the blue paper and used one of my copic markers to highlight the embossed portion of the punch shape. I thought the title was getting a bit lost so I used some Stickles to highlight the letters and across the bottom of the title (which you can’t really see in the scan). Then I also used an SEI rub-on to put the month of our trip, and I hand wrote the year with my Slickwriter which is a nice fat marker and I tried to match the style of the month rub-on.
I also thought my map and the photos on the right side of the page were floating a little so I placed the map on the circle patterned paper and on the right side I used a strip at the bottom of each row to ground them a bit. I used the circle pattern under the bottom blue strip on the right to tie in with the left page, and to give the bracket shapes a bit of contrast.
I don’t usually use a lot of the techniques I used in this layout; the edge distressing, the hand drawn outlines, and the slightly tilted photos. I find that I block photos a lot in very straight groupings, so I wanted to be a bit more whimsical with this layout. I think I achieved that look (although they are still in parallel groupings ;D)
Back soon with my Christmas 2008 layout!
DeAnna
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I used the baseball field image on the Silhouette, and used the negative space in the template to mask off the running path. I sprinkled green crystal sugar to make the grass and the infield, then piped by hand the bases and the fair/foul lines. I piped a bit more chocolate icing for the pitching mound and a small strip of white for the pitching rubber. Not too shabby, eh?
