Friday, May 6, 2011

Only You Can

This was going to be another simple page about my son and his boyish habit of playing with sticks. However, I decided to switch out the title. Something that simple can lead your journaling down a different path. in this case, that path led me to describe some of my son's best traits. I also, inadvertently, was able to place a little message in the text. I misspelled strength which led me to use acrylic paint to cover the error. It looked a bit unbalanced. This led to adding paint in other areas of the circle, including over some of the other words. I chose to use the words " capture, your and strength." Which leads to the little message for my son...Only you can capture your strength.

Pencil Lines  Sketch 236
Contents from my May Counterfeit kit including:
Sassafrass borders
Buttermilk colour acrylic paint
Recycled chipboard stars embossed with Swiss dots
Papers-My Mind's Eye, Fancy Pants, Sassafrass
Alphas- basic grey mini Marks
Sassafrass

13 comments:

  1. Oh I loved the touches of paint, and would not have known they weren't intentional right from the start if you hadn't told me. Great layout!

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  2. What a special happy accident. Great job. You are rocking!

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  3. Oh love the creative way you covered up the mistake. There are no mistakes, only opportunities for creativity!! Wonderful LO!! :)

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  4. Great creativity - love how you "saved" your beautiful, touching page.

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  5. I really love this! Thank you for playing with pencillines!

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  6. I think those little mistakes turned into some amazing design elements! Fabulous page!

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  7. I love it when mistakes turn into great details, the paint looks really good on your layout! x

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  8. I love this layout. It is so fun and boyish.

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  9. I love it!! I love your papers & the big circle with the journaling! I have only girls, so I don't get to make fun boy pages :) Thanks for joining us at ScrapFIT!

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