The Fairies' Festival

 

Prima’s new Cherry Sweet collection immediately put to mind this photo of my Granddaughter taken in 2013 as she prepared for her ballet recital.

This design is inspired by the September sketch from My Creative Scrapbook. I have a hard time working with busy designs, so I chose the Thoughts from My Heart paper as the main background and the Dreaming of Pink Skies sheet to form background pieces.

I started by cutting a square from the center of the Pink Skies sheet, measuring 1.5” from the borders. The outer piece was glued to a 11.75” square of cardboard to create a base for the layout. Next, I cut the Dreaming paper in half and cut .5” from the left side, resulting in a piece measuring 11.5” x 6”. The right half was trimmed by 1.5” from the bottom, making a piece measuring 10.5” x 6”. These pieces were glued to packaging, then inked around the sides and adhered to the base.

I cut a few pieces from the Pink Skies sheet to create matting layers to place underneath the photo. All of these were glued to pieces of packaging, inked around the sides, glued together, and adhered to the page.

I grabbed a few tags and inked them and placed them down the side of the photo. I cut a circle from one more of the tags and glued it down. Next came the embellishments: some die cut cherries and a few blooms placed beneath the tags. As a final touch, I added the title piece to the bottom of my photo.

A few closeups:

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*****Supplies*****

***Paper***

Prima – Cherry Sweet Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Dreaming of Pink Skies #981860

Prima – Cherry Sweet Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Thoughts from My Heart #981884

***Embellishments***

Prima – Love Notes Collection – Flower Embellishments – Sweet Melody #663155

Prima – Cherry Sweet Collection – Flower Embellishments – Cherry Candy #679484

Prima – Cherry Sweet Collection – Ephemera – Daydreams #981969

Prima – Cherry Sweet Collection – Tag Pad – 15 Pcs #981990

Prima – Cherry Sweet Collection – Chipboard Stickers #981938

***Mediums***

Ranger – Distress Archival Ink – Hickory Smoke

***Tools***

Kreaxions – Circle Cutter

***Other***

Beacon – Fabri-Tac Permanent Adhesive

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Moments

 

Me again, without the pigtails – I’ve graduated to the Tonette perms, my mother’s attempt to control my ever-messy hair. Next to me are my brother and sister. We’re sitting at the “kiddies’ table” – actually a smaller picnic table that my father made just for us! The photo is dated 1952, so I must have been 5; my brother would have been 3 and my sister would have been 4 years old.

Lots of tearing and layering here. I had planned on using more of the red gingham pattern to go with the picnic theme, but it looked much too busy. I ended up with using the centers of several sheets, thinking that the watercolor-like backgrounds and floral edges worked much better. The photo was matted with a couple of pieces of scraps after I distressed all of the edges.

The title piece is a Prima chipboard coated with gesso, then colored with a few of the new 49 & Market inks from Ranger using a water brush.

I added a few die cuts here, using foam dots to make them pop and called it done.

A few closeups:

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*****Supplies*****

***Paper***

49 & Market – Nature’s Haven Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Busy Bee #JNH-33052

49 & Market – Nature’s Haven Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Growing Wild #JNH-33090

49 & Market – Nature’s Haven Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Happy Place #JNH-33106

***Embellishments***

49 & Market – Nature’s Haven Collection – Die Cuts – Elements #JNH-33199

49 & Market – Nature’s Haven Collection – Laser Cuts – Elements #JNH-33175

Prima – Decorative Chipboard – Words to Live By II #647407

My Creative Scrapbook – Cut File – Floral

***Mediums***

Prima – Finnabair – Art Basics – Heavy Gesso – White #961442

Ranger – 49 & Market – Dye Ink – Green Jean #92407

Ranger – 49 & Market – Dye Ink – Strawberry Pie #92483

***Other***

Beacon – Fabri-Tac Permanent Adhesive

Scrapbook.com – Artis Craft Glue

Scrapbook.com – Double Sided Foam Adhesive Shapes

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Simple Pleasures

 

Another re-do, this time featuring a photo taken in the Summer of 1951. From left to right, my sister Jean, cousins Jane and Mary Kay Kehoe, and a pigtailed me on the end. We were in my grandmother's back yard, with her beautiful rock garden behind us.

I used the sketch that came in My Creative Scrapbook’s August LE kit as my roadmap, keeping pretty close to the design. I wanted to make my photo stand out, so I chose the less busy “B” side of the Blossom Sprinkle paper for my base. The “A” side of the Growing Wild sheet is a perfect match; I cut off enough to fit and flipped it on its side. I used a frame from the Die Cut package, adhering to the bottom of my photo and then to the Growing Wild piece. Next, I did a little trial and error to select the surrounding items. I wanted to use a part of the red polka dot file card from the Die Cuts; I cut off just enough to fit and put the remainder back for later. I selected one of the tags from the package to place on the bottom right. The other two tags were made with what I had left from the large matting piece – trimmed, punched and embellished with some jute from my stash. Next, I added a few of the journaling pieces to form my title and a piece for that sweet bird to rest on. A few pieces from the Little Birdie package and some splats and I was done!

 

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*****Supplies*****

***Paper***

49 & Market – Nature’s Haven Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Blossom Sprinkle #JNH-33076

49 & Market – Nature’s Haven Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Growing Wild #JNH-33090

***Embellishments***

49 & Market – Nature’s Haven Collection – Die Cuts – Elements #JNH-33199

49 & Market – Nature’s Haven Collection – Laser Cuts – Elements #JNH-33175

Little Birdie – Handmade Flowers – Arcadia Collection – Cardinal Red #CR92851

American Crafts – Jute Basics #89424

***Mediums***

Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink Pad – Ground Espresso

Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Oxide Spray – Lumberjack Plaid

***Other***

Beacon – Fabri-Tac Permanent Adhesive

Scrapbook.com – Artis Craft Glue

***Tools***

EK Success – Cutter Bee Scissors

We R Makers – Crop-A-Dile Big Bite

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