Friday, September 25, 2009

Cutie Patootie

While I was on vacation this summer, I snapped a few pics of my nieces and nephews. This one of my niece turned out especially good.


Materials: My Little Shoebox pattern papers, die cuts and chipboard letters; Bazzil paper, mist (my own creation), alcohol inks, transparency, sequin waste, Hero Arts stamp, text page

When I create a layout, sometimes I spend hours placing elements, moving them around, changing things. At other times, I basically slap everything on the page, glue it down and throw it all together. This is one of those layouts that I threw together without a great deal of thought. It was supposed to be a 12x6, but when I finished, it felt like it needed a bit of grounding so I added a 12x12 black background and some sequin waste. The flowers and the butterflies were sitting unused on my workspace from another project so they ended up joining the party. I love it when everything falls into place.

Happy Creating!

xoxo
Bethany

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow! I love it! The bright colors match the photo excactly!

Loes x

Lucy Edson said...

Brilliant!! I adore this, Beth! :)

Jamie Dougherty (jaylynn) said...

This is Awesome!!! I love all of the details!! :)

Becky said...

I need sequin waste!

polinka said...

wonderful!!! Love your style!!

Marit said...

LOVE her smile.... so adorable!

Vel said...

Love those flowers so much!

Peggy said...

This is beautiful Bethany! I love how you framed the pic with all of those pretty flowers and other embellies. Your niece has a gorgeous smile btw.
xxx Peggy

okiedokiegma said...

Cute picture of an especially cute girlie! And your lo is really colorful...another great one...even just, or should I say, becuz "it was thrown together." LYTM

tricia said...

WOW!!! This is so gorgeous and vibrant, gorge flowers, love the staples and the doodled stars!!

McMGrad89 said...

Great idea to add the black background. Lovely either way, though. I had been scrolling through old posts and found your comment and realized it had been a while since I visited your blog (July) so here I am. Very nice.