January Guest Designer Lisa Gregory
Hello. Its me, Lisa, back with another layout done with the beautiful January kit featuring 3 Quarter Designs paper collection, Christmas Wonderland. I wanted to show how sometimes, your holiday themed papers can be taken in a different direction, other than holiday. Although you can still see remnants of snowflakes on the designer paper, nothing else reminds me of a holiday theme. I cut a strip of paper from one design, ran it through an embossing folder, and adhered it to my main background paper. I covered the paper with clear gesso so my spatters wouldn't bleed through the paper. I wanted the wood grain design on the paper show for the most part. Wood grain designs are among my favorite paper designs.
For the photo frame, I die cut the frame using a lighter part of one of the papers. There is a faint design on the frame, but I like that it is mostly the lighter color. I cut the some corrugated cardboard using the same die. I adhered the die cut design paper on top of the cardboard cut out. This gave me a sturdy frame. I popped the frame up off of the page using some scrap corrugated cardboard underneath. I used the throwaway cut out oval from the middle of the frame, to use as a guide to cut out my photo. The chipboard on either side of the frame is also from Tres Jolie. It is the Corner Scroll Set. I painted it with white gesso, then heat embossed some white embossing powder over it.
I mixed the 3 brands of flowers in the floral clusters. Little Birdie, Prima, and my favorite, 49 and Market. I took apart the Little Birdie flowers, as well as cutting apart the leaf cluster in the 49 and Market flower pack. This gave me more control over how I wanted to build my floral clusters. For the title, I used one of the tear away parts of the paper. But I changed the words around. And one of the words was "search". I cut each letter apart, omitted the s, and created the word Reach. It worked for me on this layout. I used thinned out white gesso, and some distress stain, for the spatters on the layout.To add texture and depth, I dry brushed the flowers and leaves using a thick white gesso, without being watered down. I also used a leaf die cut using the rest of the paper that I cut apart. die cutting a few clusters, then cutting the clusters apart. I tucked in these leaves all around the floral clusters. I think it lightened the design on the paper. I do love leaves and flowers. I probably use them all of the time on my projects. Tres Jolie kits always have the most beautiful flowers!
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