This layout was inspired by the March 2023 Challenge at Tres Jolie Kit Club, featuring a sketch and a Spring Flowers theme. I concentrated more on the “Spring” than the “Flowers”, allowing the layers and layers to do that job for me.
I love this photo and the memories of a Sunday in May, 1953 that it evokes. That’s a six-year-old me on the left and my five-year-old sister and my brother who would have been four on the left. The gentleman holding our hands was not only our neighbor, but our surrogate grandfather who doled out hugs and candy and many, many stories of growing up “long, long ago”. You can just make out the swing set and sandbox in the background, along with trees that were beginning to fill out with leaves. Directly behind us is an elm tree that spread over all of our yards and provided so much shade in the summer. Unfortunately, it (and its smaller sibling next to our house) succumbed to Dutch Elm disease some years later.
For a change, I didn’t do a lot of embellishing on this layout. Instead, I began with the beautiful pattern of the paper and added lots and lots of layers of laser and fussy cut images, backing everything with small bits of packaging for dimension.
I usually ink the edges of every component of my pages; this time, I added a small amount to the photo, clock and title piece.
A few close-ups:
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*****Supplies*****
***Paper***
49 and Market – Vintage Artistry Tranquility Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Cover Sheet #VAT39623
49 and Market – Vintage Artistry Tranquility Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Sweet Nothings #VAT39562
***Embellishments***
49 and Market – Vintage Artistry Tranquility Collection – Laser Cut Elements #VAT39715
49 and Market – Vintage Artistry Tranquility Collection – Chipboard Elements #VAT39753
***Mediums***
Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink Pad – Pumice Stone
***Other***
ScorTape – 1/2”
Art Institute Glitter – Dries Clear Designer Adhesive
USPS Packaging
***Tools***
EK Success – Cutter Bee Precision Scissors
Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Mini Ink Blending Tool
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