Tuesday, March 19, 2013

On your marks, GET SET



Playing along with this week's Elle's sketch.

As soon as I saw the sketch I knew I was going to pull out one of my new The Crafter's Workshop stencils, Layered Beads.  The circles graduate from the center of the stencil, so I lined it up a little lower on the page and used my sponge dauber to add color to three of the rows.  Then I turned it around, centering it over the first set of circles and repeated.  The effect is that the top and bottom rows have a smaller circle inside.



Three quarter inch circles from Glitz's Yours Truly 6x6 pad were added to the circles to add some color and emphasize the graduated look.

Glitz papers mat the photo as well as create the large pennant that the small Elle's Studio pennants sit on.  I added some MME enamel dots at the top of the Elle's pennants, I think they tie in the circle theme from the bottom of the page.



Since the photo is slightly off center, I thought it would be great to add the journaling on vellum over top of the photo.  A great trick - just put the vellum over lined paper when journaling so that it comes out straight/even.



The alphas are CTMH's canvas alphas inked with Outdoor Denim.

Hope your week is going smoothly!   

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  Glitz - Yours Truly 6x6 papd pad; CTMH - White Daisy; Recollections - Vellum
Ink:  CTMH - Slate, Outdoor Denim
Other:  Elle's Studio - Bright Pennants, Lil' Snippets Tiny Labels; The Crafter's Workshop - 12x12 Layered Beads stencil; CTMH - Canvas Alpha Stickers; MME - The Sweetest Thing Honey Enamel Dots; Tombow - Mono Adhesive

14 comments:

  1. wow Miriam this is so awesome..I totally love the design and that picture is too cute..

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  2. what a great lay-out Miriam!
    Love the repetition of circles and your color palette ;-)

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  3. Love how the pennants at the side look like race winners' ribbons! Very clever use of shapes and shading on this one, including the B&W photo.

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  4. This is so much fun! Great photo and brilliant layout.

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  5. oooh, love this, Miriam! Those circles are so interesting with the extra shadow in there and then the patterned paper. Adorable picture!!

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  6. So beautiful! LOVING the colors, the pennants and all the fab circles!!

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  7. This is a stunning layout, Miriam!! I love the colors and the way you doubled to circles! Great work!
    Els.

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  8. LOVE what you've done with the circle grid, Miriam! Great color palette, too! I just used vellum, for my journaling, over a photo, too. I covered the whole photo but made sure they weren't of my cute kiddos ;). TFS!

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  9. The details with those circles is *awesome* Miriam - I just *love* how they are not just concentric!! Perfect little pops of colour - they really bring your layout to life! Honk!

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  10. What a fun LO Miriam! LOVE those pennants and enamel dots, as well as those funky circles!

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  11. What a great LO Mariam!! I love the circles and the vellum additions!

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  12. gorgeous! so fun and playful. I love all the details.

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  13. Fabulous layout, Miriam! I love how everything is centred in the middle!

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  14. Lurve this! the enamel dots are perfection in my book. great layout!!!

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