Not only that but I brought some cupcake toppers for the cupcakes that I made and thought "How easy will this be to do?" After all I could use them for the page embellishments. So I collected a few and brought them home to use. Then I went about choosing the background paper. I laid them onto it and knew that they weren't enough. I needed more.
LAUREN'S "SWEET SIXTEEN"
SCRAP BOOK PAGES
After seeing the flowers and butterflies on the page I knew that I needed some leaves to pull the flowers together. So I cut some out of green card stock with my Silhouette cutting machine. I laid the flowers over them and knew, Glitter. The flowers were glittered and the leaves needed it also for them to look like they matched the flowers. So I glittered them. After the glitter was dry I once again assembled them on the pages.
The minute that I saw them I knew. The flowers and butterflies have little tiny lines on them that look like stitching. To look like they matched, the leaves needed those same little stitches on them. So I got out a yellow gel pen and then started drawing all those little tiny stitch lines. This isn't going to be as easy as I thought! Next I moved on to doing the words. Using my cutting machine I cut out the letters and the outline. I glittered the outline and then dropped the letters in place. Oh No! The letters needed to be outlined, too. So I got out a white gel pen and started drawing the tiny little stitch lines. By now I'm really tired of sitting and drawing little lines. Finally they were done. I really liked the way they matched the rest of the page. Now I could pick out the pictures that I would use. First I laid out pieces of paper on my page to see how many pictures that I needed and how big I should make them. I decided to make the pictures three inches to allow a frame around them. Did I say frame? Yes, I said frame. So I picked out a scalloped frame that I felt matched the rounded edges of the flowers and butterfly wings. I created an outline and cut out four frames and outlines of both pink and blue card stock. I glittered the outline of the frames to match the rest of the page embellishments. Then I grabbed my white gel pen and once again started drawing all those little stitches on the inside edge of the frames. I spent hours drawing all these little stitches. I hope that I never have to do that again...at least not for a long time. A real long time. Now it was time to select the pictures and print them out. Once the pictures were printed out I started putting the frames together and putting the pictures in them. I decided that I would use one of the picture frames as a journaling tag. So using a picture that I snapped at the movie theater, of the carpeting. Yes, I took a picture of the carpet. It reminded me of fireworks. I knew that one day I might want to use it for a background. Using a photo program and the same text that I used for the "Sweet Sixteen" lettering I wrote out the tag using the carpeting photo as the background. Now I had all the pieces together on my page it was time to attach them. Sometimes what you think will be quick and easy is anything but. I spent four days working on this page only stopping to eat and sleep. It ended up being labor intensive but I am really happy with the way that it turned out. I only wish that I could take pictures of them that really showed the true colors and the sparkle. I really hated drawing all those little stitch lines but in the end I'm really glad that I did. I feel the extra effort was really worth it.
I have a Yahoo group called ScrapbookNook. I would love to have you join. Just leave a comment or email me at ozmudder@hotmail.com and I'll send you an invite.
If you are wondering what I'm up to next...I'm going back to finish a handmade album that I started last October for my ATC collection. Hopefully in no time at all I will be sharing pictures of it with all of you. For now I am going to clean up my studio so that I have time to work on my new album. Thanks for visiting and come back again soon.
Take Care
Kathy
I have a Yahoo group called ScrapbookNook. I would love to have you join. Just leave a comment or email me at ozmudder@hotmail.com and I'll send you an invite.
If you are wondering what I'm up to next...I'm going back to finish a handmade album that I started last October for my ATC collection. Hopefully in no time at all I will be sharing pictures of it with all of you. For now I am going to clean up my studio so that I have time to work on my new album. Thanks for visiting and come back again soon.
Take Care
Kathy
she will trasure this the rest of life I bet she loves it so much ...it A GREAT BOOK
ReplyDeleteThanks Mary. I have a start on a great book but a long way to go before it's finished.
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