Monday 18 July 2011

Papermaze DT - July PT III

Hello everyone, it is my turn again over at the Papermaze Blog  with another layout using the Basic Grey Lauderdale collection.

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There are some papers within this collection, which I found at first glance a little overwhelming such as the Beach Towel. I usually shy away from papers with stripes, as I have no idea how best to use them.


But as Basic Grey is double sided, I simply focused on the flip page, which has a nice hue of blues and some cool retro rectangles. I quickly decided that I wanted to create a page that somehow involves water/sea and the picture of my Mum taken on her first ever voyage on board Queen Mary 2 just screamed to be used :)

First off I wanted to tone the blue down a little, so I added some Gesso with the help of a few stencils and finally added Cosmic shimmer in Blue Ice to create the base of my background.

I hand cut a few flowers from the Coastline paper and layered them around the edges of the photograph. The picture itself was matted with some more of the fantastic Lauderdale - Element Stickers.

Products used:
Papers - Basic Grey: Lauderdale collection
Stickers - Basic Grey; Jenni Bowlin
Mist - Cosmic Shimmer
Pearls - Mark Richards



4 comments:

  1. Wow Kim I really love how you have created the background for your layout. The overall effect is awesome!!

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  2. love the colorsmand the awesome background

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  3. Gorgeous, love your background! :)

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  4. Oh, so cool! I just adore how you altered the background, Kim! Gorgeous flowers, too.

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