When I sat down to scrap these photos I almost hit a scrapping block... it was so hard to make the layout "work". So I turned to my favourite place for inspiration of any kind ... Pinterest. I had already decided on the paper I wanted to use, an old sheet of Prima called Lady Bird. So I simply searched for layouts using that paper, watched a process video and bingo... inspiration hit. So here's what I did to create my page:
I cut the title word off the top right corner of the paper and cut out the tree branches from the bottom left corner. The piece that was left I cut into a large circle and used the reverse side which is grey with tiny blue dots.
So after sticking the circle to my page I mixed some Turquoise all purpose ink into some glossy texture paste and applied this to the page through a circle stencil.
Once dry I used a coffee stain stencil with walnut distress ink to leave coffee marks all over my page.... I might have gone a tad overboard but in the end I was actually happy with the effect.
I then mounted and stuck down my photos and added the banners at the top of the page with some yellow stitching to pick up the yellow in the roses and on the title strip.
I mounted both the title strip and the bird on foam for extra dimension.
So my tip this week for you is that when your scrapping mojo takes a holiday, get inspiration from a piece of paper and pinterest... you will be amazed at what you can create
Head on over to the blog to see some more details and inspiration.
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