Wednesday 7 March 2012

Star Gazing


I re-discovered this holiday snap the other day in our mammoth photo sort out.  It makes me smile cos we were walking back from an evening sampling the ice creams in a local town on holiday, and as you walked along the beach and there was a little platform with a telescope.  My youngest is only just about big enough at this stage to reach the telescope and pull it down, so instead of being able to look at the ships and the shoreline all he can see is the stars!

These papers are all from Creative Craft Worlds June kit (I know a little while back), and they are Fancy Pants Small Things collection.  The papers went so well with the colours in the photos and I love that orangey red zing that's in them too, which is why I dug them out.  I started by cutting and layering and stitching all my pieces, and then I inked and layered some of the flowers in the kit too, added buttons, and made a little set of banners (and added some Teresa Collins acetate behind them).  I die cut the doily with my Iron Works spellbinder die, and managed to slip a glassine pocket behind the photo for the journalling tag (again zig zag stitched).  The final touches were the string of pearls (which was tricky to stick!) and some splatters of black ink and tiny punched stars and pearls.  I went with sticking my title on the photo (not something I have tried before), and used AC chipboard thickers and a prima mini alphabet for this.




20 comments:

  1. Beautiful layout! I loved looking at all the little components.

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  2. What a great LO - I love the stitched detail!

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  3. Another triumph Love the star its so pretty I'm really going to have to try some machine stitching on my pages.

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  4. Fun! Love all the details from the playing card to the flags on the side to the misting. Great photo too. Great layout!

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  5. Cute page-love the story of your son!

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  6. this is so pretty! Love all those great layers!

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  7. Beautiful. I love the colors and the paint splatters.

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  8. Oh Kat I soooooooooo love your stitching on your layouts - it's gorgeous!

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  9. Love the layout and layering of flowers! The colors just pop perfectly--- beautiful!!

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  10. Very cool layout with the layers and how you put the title on the photo! Perfect :)

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  11. Beautiful picture, funny story and gorgeous LO!!

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  12. Such a sweet layout.
    I have the same problem your son does, teehee.

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  13. I love everything about this layout!! TFS!

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  14. Where were you on holiday? Fabulous photo!!

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  15. Beautiful page, love the photo :)

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  16. This is gorgeous. I love the story behind the photo and the bright boldness of the LO - I love the white space, the paint splatters, the stitching... and the colours, with that zing of orangey red, work perfectly.

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  17. I think you know how much I adore your layouts, but oh wow ..... This has to be one of my favs. The details are just amazing

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  18. What a great story and photo. And I love the bright color scheme for this layout. It's funny cause I have not been liking FP lately but this makes it look good :)

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  19. Wow, this is so lovely. I love your layers and the attention to detail. Gorgeous :)

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