A Box Full of Sweet Awesome by Christy Strickler Supplies| Patterned Paper, Alphas: My Little ShoeBox;Brads: Making Memories; Other: Embossing powder, glass beads; shared with Layout linky Love at the purplemailboxblogspot.com
I had two photos, which is what the sketch called for. However, one of my photos was horizontal. To compensate, I used two vertical mattes and layered the photos over the top.Overall, my layout stays true to the sketch.
I did experiment with some embossing powder and double sided tape. It was a new technique shared in the Creative Jumpstart videos. My embossed tape didn't work as well as the example.It tore and broke very easily. However, I still felt I could use it on my layout. Even bad attempts have good merit. The color and the texture worked well with my layout.
Some might say it's odd to use flowers on a boy's layout. In this case, the flowers and Asian lanterns added to the theme of the layout. We had won a lucky koi shaped rice cake and bought a lot of Asian candies when we attended Chinese New Year festivities. These are photos of my son enjoying some of the candy and the layout compliments the one I shared yesterday of the Lion Dance.
For additional Asian Inspiration, stop by the Scrapbook News and Review Blog today to see my Asian painted Flowers tutorial.
I love this! The colors, the patterns, the embossing, the journaling lines.... way to rock it out! Thanks so much for linking up with #LLL !
ReplyDeleteSo excited to have you hosting with SIO, Christy!! Can't wait to see your sketch for February!! Love your take on this month's sketch and I think the embossing on the tape looks really cool! And I am all for flowers on a boy layout! :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats on Layout Linky Love!
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