Who knew carefully and neatly (well depends on your definition) cutting out flowers from card stock could be so fun. This double layout did begin life as a basic digital layout. It's part of my economy drive - it is cheaper to print out photos, background and some detail and add more than print out photos individually. Plus as I cannot cut a straight line to save myself it means the photos are all neatly lined up! I decided to record this process as some people like to see that, although as Diana as
Just Add Glue To muses you do wonder if anyone reads this. I know I am digressing but I was asked the other day why I do this if no-one reads this and I was trying to explain that for me it is an outlet and very much a modern diary and a way of exploring my crafty side which is very different from the day job (teaching teenagers to appreciate English literature and grammar). Anyway back to the project...
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| 1. Print out digital page |
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| 2. And the other one...and try and cut it out of page without too many wobbles. |
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| 3. Cut a piece of 12 x 12 to 8 x 8 and then cut out the centre of the square leaving about 3 cm border. |
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| 4. Cut out flower shapes from mount and fold up, make sure you leave at least 2mm of border not cut through. |
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5. Using one of the square insides cut out from mount, carefully cut out details from card. I found this very difficult and it is not that neat - really admire all those who can do this well. Arrange these on the layout to suit. I added to border effect and emphasized the digital element swirl element from Peppermint Creative.
Next I found a variety of different alphabet stickers... I used Love Elsie one for the "wanted for", Stuntman was a digital font from Peppermint creative, the "punting" was from a DCWV set and the numbers on the small photos were in a my random box. I also used a rub on for "little known facts". Finally I hand wrote journalling on both pages, on the second page I used the swirl as a guideline. As always when I write on LOs I just go for it and don't pencil out which is why words end up a little messy and squashed.
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