Hi everyone, I have two layouts to share with you on this blog. I received the Story Book collection at the beginning of March and it has taken me a very long time to complete my pages. Not through lack of loving the collection because I DO, but I confess that I really struggled with the muted tones and my crazy attempts to add mixed media were no help! This range is really gorgeous and I wish I could have done it more justice, and I think a super talented person would have a lot of fun creating an off the page project with this! There are some very inspirational pieces on the Kaisercraft Blog so I recommend checking those out.
Here is my first layout called Just a Glimpse that seriously took about three weeks!
The photo is of my husband and little girl walking across the school field and I loved the way the trees looked so this I wanted to reflect this with stamping and papers choices.
To start with, I used Borrow as my background page, and stamped with various stamps and stencils from my stash using both archival inks and distress inks. Then I mixed some Finnabair Glass Glitter into some old modelling paste that was going a bit gluggy (not sure this was a good idea!) and used a stencil to spread onto the background. To be honest, this looked kinda crazy but I decided to battle on in my mixed media attempt. To make it merge into the background a bit I stamped over top in some areas….not sure if it improved the look tho!
I layered up Library Card, Novel and Books papers to place my photo and embellishments on. I love how this range is very themed but at the same time can be used for a totally non booked related photo! After I had layered the paper and photos, I needed to add some bits and bobs and because I was a little horrified at my flower collection I figured I had best use some. I mixed together some Glass Glitter with Tim Holtz distress glitter to put in the middle of some of the flowers to add a little extra bling. I also added some distress glitter to the wooden leaves.
My next move was to try heat embossing my chipboard title with the Blue Fern embossing powder. I made a few mistakes while doing this, remember I am no expert with mixed media products! To start with, I knocked one piece when it was still hot and whoops, embossing sludge got pushed into a pile on the word. I also wanted to stamp over top and instead of using archival ink, I used distress ink so the stamped image wasn’t clear and thinking now…I suppose I could have wiped it off and restamped but ahem…didn’t think of that at the time!
So, all in all, not a very successful attempt at mixed media and I think it is time to pull out my so called art journal and do some playing. I wish I could come along to Joanna’s journal class, I think it would be a lot of fun as her card classes always included a new technique and it was great to learn!
My second layout Every Family has a Story is a lot cleaner and more my style. It is a photo of my husband and small nephew on my wedding day. It’s funny how similar my nephew looks to my daughter, they sure have the same fine hair and there is something in face too. Rose thought it was her when she first saw the layout.
Individual pearls are another item in my stash that I have millions of and never use so I decided to pull these out and place along the strips to fancy them up. More flowers on this page too, along with some old stickers from my stash and I also inked a Bo Bunny laser cut chipboard heart and nestled this in the flowers. After I added this heart, I made sure to also add hearts in my other two clusters to balance things out.
I attempted hand lettering a title but what I wanted to use was just too long and it didn’t work so instead went with small letter stickers and large thickers. The title is taken from one of the collectables and I was planning to use the collectable piece but decided I needed a bold title.
So plain and simple for this page….well sort of! It was fun to play with the mixed media things and the best thing is that mistakes can be covered up mostly and more layered on top, so don’t be scared to try something new even if you think it might go wrong.
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