Showing posts with label cloud 9. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cloud 9. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Again, reusing elements on different layouts

I seem to be diggin' circles lately.
And borders - they do create a lovely feel.
And again employing their use on another page even
the same color.
It does make an album cohesive, however, there's really nothing
cohesive about my everyday albums.
And a lot of my pages go in the grandkids 8x8 albums
so that doesn't help with the cohesiveness,
and doesn't that give me the license to use whatever I want,
whenever I want. LOL!
This was basically a driveby page as I couldn't make up my mind
about a lot of things.
I know you're surprised.
It was the new Echo Park I've been working with and
I love the heart page - and all its busy-ness.
So I threw on some gesso and watercolors and then
couldn't decide if I liked it.
Therefore, its mostly covered up.
I also had a couple of leaf branches where the feathers
are now, and decided that looked too girly
and went with just feathers.
Did some stamping, the music is Studio G and the100% boy
is from Recollections and both work perfectly.

And then there's the wood veneer alphas and stars.
Well finding the letters was fun.
NOT.
For some dumb reason that, I in my infinite wisdom, dumped
every single wooden embellishment I had from Studio Calico
into one big ole bowl.
Every.single.one.
And doesn't that make for good hunting when you need to make words.

I proceeded to dump everything out of the bowl and now I have
them all segregated according to alphas, hearts, people, and arrows that
I have an amazing abundance of.
As you can see.

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Whitewashing with gesso

I actually began this page with no direction in mind.
Shocking I know.
I did have a photo though - a very artistic type photo.
I grabbed my Basic Grey and began
by laying down some 3MScotch washi tape - I know.
 It was quite bright so I decided that some whitewashing would mute it a bit.
And it worked.
 Went to the stash BG sent me from the warehouse purchase and ba-zinga...
(I miss Sheldon).
I located quite a few stickers that would work on the page
and began laying them down as well.
 So as usual I got into the spirit of the thing and with a couple of interruptions
we'll be going straight from here to the finished product.
Surprise!!!
I seriously love how it turned out. 
And it works so well with the photo of little Lou.
I'm jealous actually - I'd love to take cool pix like that.

All BG except for Bella Blvd & October Afternoon alphas,
Evalicious (my new favorite) and Cloud 9 buttons and Scotch 3M washi.

I did post this over at Paper Issues and participated in their New Issue.
I am also going to follow them on blog lovin'.