To say that this one has gone together quickly would be a gross fabrication! I knew when she brought this picture home last fall that I wanted to do another Prima-type layout. I really liked how the last one I did turned out. And with the leaves and wall in the background, I knew that I wanted to incorporated leaves heavily into this layout… and woodgrain too. So I wrote up the journaling and printed it out onto a light (and imminently readable) woodgrain paper.
To get the mottled leaf effect, I had to have all of my colors of paper pulp made up at the same time. That required some ambition… which took a couple months to find. Then I made the paper and tried cutting it with my Spellbinder dies… of which I had a couple amazing packages of leaves. Only a small handful of them actually cut completely. So I dug out the thick Sizzix dies, even going so far as to order another one. (Yes – it was a hardship. But one must suffer for their art, they say…)
To get the mottled leaf effect, I had to have all of my colors of paper pulp made up at the same time. That required some ambition… which took a couple months to find. Then I made the paper and tried cutting it with my Spellbinder dies… of which I had a couple amazing packages of leaves. Only a small handful of them actually cut completely. So I dug out the thick Sizzix dies, even going so far as to order another one. (Yes – it was a hardship. But one must suffer for their art, they say…)
So I cut a pile of leaves. And I punched some small daisies out of vellum to be made into asters – one of my favorite fall flowers. I went with white, which looked better with Miss Thing’s dress than the purple, I thought. The Voices had some issues with what to put behind all of the leaves and flowers and big old “6”. I carried dark brown paper and gold ink and butterfly stamps with me to a crop. Fortunately, I never got to this layout.
Then I checked a book out of the library on decorative paper techniques and got the idea for the tissue paper. I spent $2 at the dollar store for a variety pack. I then layered yellow, pink, and red with tinted glues… first brown, then pink, then orange pigmented matte glue/sealer. I was going to go with yellow and green, but I fell in love after the pink and didn’t want to mess up the color combo. I cut frames out and adhered the journaling and pictures behind instead of matting them onto the front.
Then I checked a book out of the library on decorative paper techniques and got the idea for the tissue paper. I spent $2 at the dollar store for a variety pack. I then layered yellow, pink, and red with tinted glues… first brown, then pink, then orange pigmented matte glue/sealer. I was going to go with yellow and green, but I fell in love after the pink and didn’t want to mess up the color combo. I cut frames out and adhered the journaling and pictures behind instead of matting them onto the front.
I actually liked the background so much, I opted for less leaves and didn’t like the asters after all. I did use some metallic rub-ons here and there, mostly in spots that the white background still showed through.
I think the tissue paper makes a lovely leaf background and may try it in greens for a summer background… or blues for water… or multicolored for….
Yep, I’m thinking it’s addictive!!! And I got another Prima-ish layout for my scrapbook.
I think the tissue paper makes a lovely leaf background and may try it in greens for a summer background… or blues for water… or multicolored for….
Yep, I’m thinking it’s addictive!!! And I got another Prima-ish layout for my scrapbook.