At Twisted Sketches there is always something interesting thrown into the mix, beyond the sketch. This time the word was "distress" so I turned the inking up a notch & sanded the edges of the photographs as opposed to printing them with the crisp white borders that I am preferring at the moment. For some strange reason I really battled with my paper choice. I find this THE most time consuming part of my scrapbooking. I always want it to be PERFECT. This was about my 4th choice & doesn't actually "match" but I really felt like a citrusy/zesty colour pallette tonight, and eventually thought, well why not these papers LOL?!
I got to use my yellow chipboard Thickers again - TYPO is currently my favourite font. When I first saw these Thickers in the Cocoa Daisy kit I did wonder what Ali was thinking {it was their September "Ali" kit}. I eat my thoughts! I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE them!!! The green spotty "underlinings" are the remnants of parts of letters {cut up} from my hectically lime green "umbrella" Thickers.
The red alphas are Pink Paislee & the turquoise are Doodlebug. I tied them in with the top title by bracketing them with yellow typo thickers brackets. The yellow flower I have cut in half to accent each part of the title {see the other half above the top title "Lyra"} is part of the same set of October Afternoon diecuts that also features the 2 cherry embellishments, the bee & the flower flourish, all featured on this layout. I inked the flower in red, the cream cardstock in pink & the printed paper in turquoise. Inking the edges of your different paper/embellishment elements helps to visually tie your layout together.
The orange backing cardstock is actually the reverse of American Crafts - Blue Skies - Wouldn't it be Nice? printed paper - a travesty perhaps but it was just the shade I was looking for! Same with the cream "cardstock" - it is actually the reverse of American Crafts - Blue Skies - Zip A Dee Doo Dah printed paper. It is THE perfect cream for Lyra's skintone. I tried to use bazzill from my stash, but like choosing facial foundation/base, I just couldn't get the perfect match until I saw this! The printed paper is Basic Grey Lemonade "Honey Bee" & a print that I really love. I bought the mesh at Waste Centre but the only colour available was black, so I painted it white, using regular acrylic paint. Love the dimensional touch it adds...
Yup - the photo wasn't exactly parallel with the mesh but don't worry! I've just lifted & straightened it ;-D
I inked the edges of the paper with lime green so all in all I've used 4 different ink colours on this layout - Lime, Red, Turquoise & pink...ooops...5 actually...inked the BEE in orange...forgot a close-up shot of him - you'll have to scroll back up! I used a black fineliner to add some dots behind the bee as a quirky touch {his flight plan} & journaled the date by hand - see below.
8 comments:
It's a beautiful layout. I love the colors and the patterned papers you chose are awesome :) Thanks for playing along at Twisted Sketches :)
I love the colours of this one Helen. I admire everyone that photograph their layouts and gets it so perfectly...I would be lost without my scanner.
Now here I was thinking you were not keen on sketches!LOL - you are so right, she IS cute!
Oh what a cute page! Lovin' your take on the sketch!
adorable pics you've used in this layout ! Great take on the sketch too !
good luck on the challenge....again LOVE the orange!
Hmmm...well I thought no-one liked it 'cos I only got 2 comments yesterday LOL! Heidi u'r right - I didn't like sketches - but I'm warming to them!!! {a woman's prerogative to change her mind ;-D) I forgot to say in the post that she is my neice & was an IVF baby & a long time coming so is a very special person in our family!
Beautiful layout and I agree, Lyra is stealing zillions of hearts with her cuteness.
Hugs
Desire
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