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| J'ai le coeur à te dire... by LN |
A short while ago I pinned this great layout called " J'ai le coeur à te dire... "
(I have the heart to tell you…) by LN on Scraptus. I loved all the layering of the circles, stars and buttons
and just had to scraplift it.
So, I came up with this. (Unfortunately the picture doesn't really do it justice, even though I had eight tries before I got one that was semi reasonable!)
I used the papers, ribbon, "V" brad and heart eyelets
from my LSS monthly kit. I felt that the red cardstock in the kit was just too
overpowering with the rest of the patterned papers. So, because I wanted to
enter the Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Kraft Paper challenge, I toned it
down with a piece of kraft paper I had in my stash. I think the colours go
together really well.
I started by putting the kraft paper on top of the red
cardstock, then stamped the Stampin Up! Medallion stamp in three places and
embossed them with some Stamp-it violet pearl embossing powder. I used some
fired brick Distress ink over part of the kraft paper. Then I tore a couple
pieces of scrap paper and layered them over the Stampin Up! En Français
background stamp before inking it up with the same distress ink. Because of the
scrap paper on the stamp, I only got part of the stamp. I haven't stamped on my
background much, but I love this effect so might have to try it more often.
I attached my black and white photos, then cut lots and lots
of circles and other shapes from the Bo Bunny papers in the kit. The dies I
used were:
I used the Sullivan's 1.5" star burst punch and the
Stampin Up! multi-flower punch as well. I also cut a number of the words
from one of the papers. I inked the edges of some of the lighter coloured die
cuts with Bark Versamark ink, then started layering! I attached most of the die
cuts with regular double sided tape, but raised some with foam tape. I also put
the two bits of ribbon coming out of the top and bottom of the line of
embellishments.  |
| See the tiny heart in the middle of the eyelet?! |
I used the V brad over the V in LOVE on the circle near the
bottom, and set the four heart eyelets into the cardstock and brown heart. Unfortunately
this left a hole in the middle, but the paper with all the words also had the
tiniest little hearts that fit perfectly in the holes so I cut them out of the
paper and attached them behind the hole - problem solved quite effectively I
thought!!
Finally I added a few bling hearts and flowers, printed and added the jounalling strips and I was done!
I absolutely love how this layout turned out, and for the
first time in a while it came out better than I imagined. Of course it helped
that these pictures of my son and I are great too.
Till next time, happy days!
Francine
5 comments:
Wow.....what a beautiful layout! I love all your details in that side trail of embellishments. So cool! Thanks for playing along with us at Frosted Designs!
Wow Francine this is amazing! Love your take on the sketch! Beautifully done! Hugs!
Really great layout! Love all the layering - I love to put a lot of stuff on dimension on my layouts and I think this is beautiful. Thanks for playing along with us at Frosted Designs this week!!
This is beautiful - just love all your beautiful layering of embellishments.
What a beutiful layout and I love how you layered all the embellishments. Great job!
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