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Just a fun little congratulations card.
I'm really getting to love layering. I'm especially loving
the look of rubons layered on top of other rubons. I used that
effect here, on the tree.
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Okay, so I wanted to try something a little different.. I
hope it's okay, but I did a card (and am working on another
right now..)
I am all about using really cool papers and embellishments
for things other than just layouts. And to me, those Tinkering
Ink papers say "party." They are so fun and crazy
I thought it might be fun to make a birthday card out of them.
A good way to break up a really colorful or busy pattern
is to isolate some of the designs against a different neutral
element. Here I punched circles to use as dots and used deco
scissors to cut a scallop design for the card's border.
I hollowed out a playing card to use as my frame for the
"Happy Birthday" part of the card.
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So.... this one is called "imperfect."
I totally broke out the paint with this one. I love how it
adds such a fun layer of texture. I painted the doily black
and used it like lace at the top border. I also did a big schmear
of paint over the patterned paper and the chandelier transparency
to break it up a little, since both had such a bold pattern..
I also inked EVERYTHING. I love how ink both covers up mistakes
and also sometimes causes you to make new ones. :)
The most important part of this layout though, was that I gave
myself permission to make a mess. To make mistakes and show
off imperfection. (For the record, this is the only pic currently
in existance that really shows off the big ole' gap between
my teeth.) And you know what? It was totally awesome.
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It's called "life is"
For my base background, I really liked the orange and the pattern
on the Tinkering Ink "Blur" paper, but the green was
just a little too bright and busy. I distressed the paper using
paint, ink, and stamps. I think distressing is a great way to
customize a paper so that it will perfectly match the mood of
colors of your page. Sometimes it's super messy, but always
fun!
I used white chalk ink on the orange paper before I applied
the rubons. I layered the ink on by swiping the pad back and
forth with uneven pressure. I think it gave it a nice varying
color (like a real tree right?) peeking out from underneath.
The other thing I did to add texture was that I applied both
the tree and leaves rubons with a pen. For one thing, it allows
me to see exactly where I have rubbed, and for another, since
I was pressing really hard with a small object in lines, that
same pattern of lines was etched into the rubon, again adding
some rough "tree-like" texture.
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This one's called "the look"
My favorite part of this layout is that big black swirly cutout.
Using an x-acto knife is sometimes tedious, but often, I find
that the results are pretty great.
I customized the etsy flower by adding patterned paper from
the scraps from this page. I used the dull edge of the x-acto
knife to distress the paper edges.
I also used s Slick Writer pen to doodle a border and change
the color of the brad.
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This one is called "perspective"
I wanted to do something really textural with this layout so
I took a big square of cardboard and mounted it on top of a
layer of patterned paper. I then covered half of that with patterned
paper and a transparency, so the cardboard would still peek
out a little.
I anchored the fiber to one corner of the picture. It almost
looks like a big arrow that directs your eye to look across
the page. I liked the contrast of the big picture paired with
the little one. I also thought it was kind of neat to layer
a photo underneath the transparency,.
And because I thought it was a really cool deco design, I used
a corner from the monopoly mony to enhance my journaling paper
as an accent.
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