Wednesday 10 April 2013

Love those Blue Eyes


Another one of my recent My Minds Eye paper inspired pages!  I love all the blues in their collection and it pulls out the colour of my sons eyes in the photos...so here it is documented in a page.

I had a go at a few techniques on this page, the first one that you might be just able to see is some printing with plastic - I used it on my valentines card - putting some inks on a plastic envelope - the sort that stamps and Tando chipboard packs come in.  Then you screw it up and print with it so that is the softer splodgey prints behnd the photos.  I then crumpled up a layer of vellum, added some hessian and started with layers of papers in blues and whites.  I cut out my own hearts and folded them in half and stitched them down the middle at the edge of the photo.  The chipboard is Dusty Attic and I painted it roughly in gesso with some thicker areas and then heated it, so it all bubbled up, to bring out the bubbles some more I inked it with a grey ink pad, then added a MME sticker.  I added strips of the blue papers at the top and bottom of the page, left all my stitched ends hanging and then use a mix of Simple Stories mini type and some MME lush velour chipboard too.

I have a whole host of photos to show you from the A Trip Down Memory Lane retreat last weekend, so when I get a chance I will load them all up - there were loads of fantastic classes and make and takes as well as great company (it is so nice to meet people from ukscrappers and blogger in real life :)) and beautiful surroundings...only sore bit was that I did manage to loose my voice along the way too....but it is back now!








18 comments:

  1. This is so pretty! I love the stitched hearts!

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  2. Ah lovely! This is my favourite colour combo at the moment.
    Sue x

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  3. Super layout, really like the stitching and loose threads and all the blues.

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  4. lovely page :-) glad you have your voice back!

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  5. Great page!
    Love the layers, the pretty blues and cute photo! :)
    Glad your voice is back!

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  6. Stunning! I love the bubbled gesso and the stitched hearts! x

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  7. So pretty love the colors and the stitching

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  8. gorgeous..the hearts stitched on the photo look so good x

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  9. Such a sweet layout. I love that the photo is the main feature of this page.
    I also like the techniques you used.

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  10. Very cute page lovely piccy and great layout

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  11. It's gorgeous, your layering technique is amazing. I never get it looking this good

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  12. Lovely page - I saw it for real last night along with many others - you never cease to amaze me with your talent! As I said I quite often forget to look at the picture as I am so busy looking at the beautiful techniques you use.

    PS are we still not mentioning the fringe?? x

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  13. Saw this page "in the flesh" last night together with many others. You are so talented and all of your pages are just beautiful.

    PS are we allowed to mention the fringe yet? x

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  14. awesome layout, love the blue with the kraft color!!! Gorgeous!!

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  15. Oh that's gorgeous Kat, I received some circles on sewn thread this week similar to your hearts and loved using them and thought they might be fun to try myself - you've beaten me to it LOL - mind you that would mean getting the machine out!

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