I came home from work to find Alby in my garden eating my flowers and just had to get a photo of him. The look on his face was just priceless because he knew he'd been caught where he shouldn't have been!!
The sheet of Newsprint DSP was perfect for this layout because it was all about gardening!! (not that I noticed it at the time I chose it!)
I wanted to create the feel of him being in a garden so I pulled out all my flower punches and dies to create the flowers on the page. I love using flowers on my layouts and it's great having such a fabulous range of punches and dies to be able to create my own that will coordinate perfectly with my pages!
The larger flowers have been made using the Flower Folds Bigz XL die (page 155 of the 2011 catty) that have been embossed with Finial Press embossing folder and then inked with Crumb Cake ink. The edges of the flowers have then been rolled using my pricking tool. I've stamped a flourish from the Baroque motifs in the top left corner and then layered some flowers together that were punched out with Boho Blossoms Extra Large punch (page 146). If you scrunch them up and then unscrunch (is that a word??) them, it gives them a little bit more texture. And finally, the little flower on my chipboard journalling spot has been made using the Itty Bitty punches from the Summer Mini catty. Actually, I have to confess, I wasn't initially going to put a little blossom there but I made a booboo and had to cover it up!!! Worked out alright in the end though - LOL!!
My title has been made using 'On Board Alphabet Soup' for the larger word and 'Timeless Type Alphabet dies' for the rest of the title and the journalling spot is a chipboard shape from 'On Board Mix & Match'. One of the sheets in the DSP range had 'THE STORY' as a title, so I've cut out part of it and covered the chipboard shape. I could only fit 'STORY' onto the shape, so I've used the Vintage Type rubons on my photo instead to finish it off.
I hope you get inspired use your punches and dies to create your own flowers!
Lynn
Thank you Christine!! I enjoyed doing this page!
Posted by: Lynn Powell | 10/04/2011 at 08:05 PM
This is beautiful, Lynn. Your flowers are divine, and the DSP is perfect. Love this page!
Posted by: Christine Blain | 10/04/2011 at 08:39 AM
What a fabulous page. Love how your paper is about gardening. Alby's face is priceless.
Posted by: Beverley Boyle | 22/03/2011 at 10:11 AM
Yes Nikki - Alby is a pet. I have had him since a baby and he was initially to be released but he suffered a stroke a few years ago and could not even stand up for about three weeks!
Posted by: Lynn Powell | 20/03/2011 at 09:20 PM
Alby does look sheepish there lol
Lovely page Lynn.
Posted by: Delys | 20/03/2011 at 03:36 PM
That is a beautiful page Lynn - love the photo. Is Alby a pet? And yes I think unscrunch is a great word LOL
Posted by: Nikki Sadler | 20/03/2011 at 11:07 AM