Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Layouts: October 2009

The inspiration for this page was a patterned paper I saw that had flowers and vines on the left side of the page. So I started from scratch and made at first the trellis using the Martha Stewart deep edge border punch. Then I cut the flourishes using a Sizzix Bigz die and then I was ready to use another Sizzix die for the flowers, but then I decided to try to make the flowers myself by distressing the edges of plain circles and putting one on top of the other. I also used tons of distress inks and added random strokes with markers on each circle and then crumbled them a little. When I assembled the flowers they needed something more for the centre, so I used clear buttons and twine. To be honest, I really love the result but didn't enjoy that much the process, I used a craft knife to distress the edges and it took me ages!
For the title I adhered the patterned paper (all the patterned papers are from the "Bailey" K & Company paper pack) on plain chipboard and run it through my Cuttlebug with the "You're not the boss of me" alphabet, I also accented the edges with a dark brown marker.
I think that the final result is lovely, even more so because almost everything came from my hands!

4 comments:

  1. Great layout and your hand made flowers are perfect...get yourself a distressing gadget it saves a lot of time!!

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  2. I love your handmade flowers and leaves!The script on the background paper is beautiful too!Nice job!!

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  3. Πολύ πολύ όμορφα τα λουλουδάκια!! Μπράβο!

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  4. The flowers are cute! Yo should check out the new Dizztress- it- all by Zutter. I tried it out over the weekend at a wotkshop and it saves SOOOO much time! Its a distressers dream!!

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