What does it look like right now? ( if you have a photo you want to share that is great)
I also found this delightful example, done by Elodie Touze, and think it's absolutely wonderful!
Quick-dry ink and a durable acrylic tip makes this the ideal marker for writing on any surface, including photos, stickers, ribbon, vellum, metal and glass. Photo safe, acid free, non toxic and waterproof ink goes on smoothly to leave an even coat of permanent, transparent color.
This layout is one of my favorites. I did LOTS of sculpting on this. I loved the embossed-like image seen here, but it was part of a colored sheet of paper that did not match with my photos, so after hours of cutting, hahahaha-I applied my favorite part it to a sheet of my always-at-the-ready Bazzill. This was a nifty way to make use of it with these pics and I had lots of fun on this layout- I sponge painted the Bazzill edges, used cut-away scraps for mats, tilted the pics (usually not a "gail thing") and I used my Basic Grey Beckham chipboard alphas. I left the milk choc chip plain, but I painted the white choc chip ones green to draw out that color from the layout elements. They painted up so nicely! I enjoyed using this product. I am sure if you will too, but get it NOW as it is flying out of the store. 4 packs of paper have sold since I checked the available quantity this morning!
I loved working with this paper. It is so bright and colorful and makes me feel like a kid again. The whole animal theme works so well with children pictures or just about any fun , family pictures. I also used the American Crafts Thickers for my title along with a Jenni Bowlin bingo card, primas, and the Jungle Bungle brads.
On this one I added some Prima flowers and the brads from Jungle Bungle. The red ric rac and button added extra dimension to the layout. I also love the extra bonus Sassafras Lass gives you on each sheet of patterned paper. There is a very cool border shape to each sheet of paper in the set.
This is one of my favorite border punches-the Threading Water Border Punch by Fiskars. I have them all, the scallop and the apron lace. I love to layer them and stack them under photos or make borders . This is one tool that you will get your moneys worth. Go take a look: http://www.acbaileydesigns.net/product_p/126710.htm Here is an example of layering them. I used all three for this.
She also found this very cool card sketch on pagemaps.com
I was lucky to work with this gorgeous kit this month. I love red, white and blue together and the papers in this kit from Cherry Art and Jillibean Soup were so pretty. This LO is of my great niece Lexie. She is a really sweet kid, very shy and quiet and getting her to even pose for a photo is hard. I was playing around with the zoom and my camera and shot this of her on Memorial Day - the fact that she had on a star necklace and the Jenni Bowlin Bingo card said "Star" was my sign to use the photo for this LO. I traced a big star and cut it out and used it for the photomat - added some other elements and painted the chipboard with Distress Paint - which was a nice finishing touch as the papers look slightly distressed. In keeping with the Memorial Day theme, Erica posted a Freaky Friday challenge in the ACBailey newsletter to do a layout using a sketch and photos from Memorial Day weekend.
It was beautiful here on Long Island that weekend and I was busy the entire time. The kraft paper was a great background for the distressed look of the papers. I inked up and sanded the chipboard alphas and used photos of the events that I attended that weekend - the Air Show at Jones Beach, two Parades where some of my grandkids marched with the Scouts. Stay tuned for the next Freaky Friday Challenge coming up in a few days.
