Water Sprite Layout

These are the fruits of my Sunday afternoon crop with a friend. We worked hard but had a great time, and the time we spent on detail! The true colors on the two pages are actually a brownish grey, pink, green and white. Most papers are double sided by S.E.I. and the green background on the second page of the spread had a very faint white vertical pin stripe. It's very difficult to detect. The flowers were hand cut from the back of one of the prints and were white on pale grey. They are a continuous string of flowers and where cut with a craft knife and glass setup. More hand cutting ensued to create the layered embellishments and then were topped off with rhinestones and pearls for some of the flower centers. Pop dots raised some of the flower petals for more dimension. A day well spent!

At Pacific City

It being Mother's Day, I thought I would post the pictures and pages I recently completed but from our celebration at Pacific City last year. The pages are an outcome from a Karen Russell class and I began thinking a little differently as a result when it came to design especially on the first page. I enlarged the main picture and cropped out the bottom of it. I distressed the edges and then cut a slit in the overlay and cut around the part of my granddaughter's image that I wanted to slip through the overlay. I then cut around her thumb so I could insert a matted picture of another shot of her on the beach the same day. The whole thing really produced a 3-D effect. The only disappointing thing about this posted picture is the overlay line shows up when the page is outside of the page protector. If you would like to try something similar to this, rest assured when the page is in the protector, the overlay line does not show. Anyway, I was happy with the results and the effect.

Wedding Album - Page 1

One of the current projects I'm working on is a wedding album for two great people in my life. They were married last October on the beach at sunset on the Oregon Coast. The picture shown here is of the first page in the album. Dark purple and lavender velvet papers were used as accents with shiny gold and small touches of green velvet. The shells were punched with a Whale punch and the greenery is a Shaper punch. The lettering is QuicKutz "Indigo" with hand cut gold matting and the linked hearts were die cut with the QuicKutz nested heart die. There is a transparent overlay covering most of the photograph and the lower left hand corner was stamped with StazOn Cotton White ink. Making my own overlays is something new in my arsenal of techniques and something I'll be using more. It was fun and easy with high impact. The base paper is NRN Designs Diamond and Circle embossed paper. Stay tuned for more pages on this project over the coming weeks.