Thursday, July 26, 2012

In Pursuit of Eggs - Embellishing and toning down patterned paper

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I finally printed out our Easter photos and am starting to scrapbook them.

For this layout I chose this beautiful sheet of paper from Basic Grey's Konnichiwa collection. It's a busier pattern than I am used to using, but it just seemed so perfect. In order to tone it town a little so that it wasn't competing so much with the photos, I incorporated some doilies.

I'm using two sizes here, the large ones are more of the ones that I got from that conference I attended back in April (they were under the candies that were on all the tables). The smaller ones are from Curtsey Boutique. I ended up laying a smaller one on top of each of the larger ones. It adds some extra texture and also further softens the color.



I was almost ready to just leave the layout as is, but I thought it needed a little something. I didn't want to overload it with embellishments, so I ended up adding interest by randomly adding Liquid Glass to some of the little red berries. Creates some shine as well as texture.



For the little embellishment cluster, I pulled a couple crocheted flowers from my stash, layered some of the collection stickers on top, and added a dot of Liquid glass in the center as another accent.



Can you believe that there is NO cardstock on this layout! This is a first!

I'm going to be linking this up with the following:
1) May Flaum Camp Scrap - Doilies
2) Basic Grey July Flickr Challenge
3) CK Summer Camp Altered Sticker Challenge

Supplies Used
Paper: Basic Grey - Konnichiwa
Other: Basic Grey - Konnichiwa letter stickers; CTMH - Liquid Glass, Crocheted Flowers, Bonding Memories Adhesive; Tombow Mono Adhesive; Curtsey Boutique - Round Paper Doilies; Doilies from stash; CM - Photo Splits, Black pen

12 comments:

  1. Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwww! This is GORGEOUS! I love love love the photos and loveeeeeeeeeeeee the red dots all in the background! That looks AWESOME!!!

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  2. wow this is adorable...always love your amazing layouts..

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  3. This is beautiful! Love these papers and those crocheted flowers...I swoon!

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  4. Oooh! Miriam that liquid glass is perfect!!!! I have to try that out! Thanks for the tip! :)

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  5. OHHHHHHHHH! What a fabulous LO! I noticed that liquid glass right away! I must get me some of that! LOOOOOOOOOOOVE!!! Great tip and beautiful page!!!

    ps...thanks for your sweet comment on my blog. You made my day!! HUGS!! LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  6. Love the doilies and the liquid glass idea was brilliant!

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  7. This is adorable, I love the texture!

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  8. So gorgeous! I love the doilies and the crochet flowers. The paper is beautiful and so are your photos.

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  9. beautiful! it's so dainty and elegant!

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