Saturday, July 16, 2011

Backyard Escape

Backyard Escape
  The topic was named by the page, Backyard Escape. My husband loves to fish and we have many fishing photos. This layout I love and made using Freshly Picked, Stand and Salute, Lacy Labels, and Plantain Schoolbook . The background is plain cardstock with a circle cut to fill the page; the circle has a look reminiscent of scales so I went with it. The grass is Plantain Schoolbook, cut at different heights in four sections. I glued the grass only at the base giving the page more dimension. The Cat Tails are from Freshly Picked, (I did not have Give a Hoot at the time which has the real image so I made this work) they are flocked in brown. I used Stand and Salute to make the clouds. Color and definition come from stamp pads! We all have them in many colors so I used them, taking some cotton swabs and dabbing them in the ink I went to town adding in extra color here and there. Then I added in the journaling tag from Lacy Labels. My husband is thrilled to show off his skills to everyone who comes by, and I get to show off my toys as well. The best benefit is my husband has a reason to buy me more toys! How cool is that?


Friday, July 15, 2011

Display Stand



   For my very first blog post I have made a display project. I love to make beautiful scrapbook pages and just dislike covering them up in a book. Like every woman out there I want change in my decor, so I made a display stand for my scrapbook pages. When I make another page that screams SHOW ME OFF, then I will change that one out and thus change out my decor. Yeah for me!
   So for the display stand I used the new cartridge Fancy Frames and Design Studio. The cuts were made on three pages with the height at 11.4 and the width at 14.056. I hid the contours on each of the lines for one side, saved them as a Gypsy file and then reopened as a DS file. Each piece was cut three times out of black chipboard and glued together to create a strong support piece. The easel will hold a store bought frame with a glass front! I now have many options for my display, or a nifty gift.