Shine Like a Diamond

Hello Scrappy Friends,

I hope you all had as fantastic of a weekend as I did. I spent my Saturday with two great scrappy people being creative, eating good food, laughing and having an absolutely fantastic time. 

 

When I scrapbook I’m never in a rush. Scrapbooking is an art not a race. Take your time when you're being creative and let the photo’s, papers, embellishments and all that other fun stuff you use relax you and transport you to a therapeutic place.

After a long day of scrapping I started laying out components for this layout at 1:00am on Sunday and completed the page after some much needed sleep and a cup of coffee. I call this one “Shine Like a Diamond”.

 

My Rebecca is so full of life, she always lets her personality shine, thus the title. I kept this layout fairly simple because I wanted the pictures and her smile to the stand out. It's not a crooked layout, it's just the way I took the picture.



 

 

As my ongoing attempt to purge, so that I can shop more,  I used many of my old stash items for this project.

Product's used:

JilliBean Soup - Soup Staples - Green Stock - I used the back side as my craft coloured base.          Heidi Swapp Color Shine - Gold. 

Dreamweaver Metallic Gold Embossing Paste. 

Authentique - Neat and Blue Fern Studios 

Project Life Gold "Shine" as part of the title and a wood veneer banner.

"In the Wild" paper flower from my stash along with other bits and pieces layered to make the embellishement.

Unknown journaling paper bit and MME Lime Twist Alpha on journaling card.

Water, paint brush and a edge distressing tool, tweezers and tip sharp scissors, pop dots, hot glue gun and Best Ever Glue.



 

My first step was preparing the craft background. I splattered it randomly with Heidi Swapp’s Gold Color Shine and set it aside to dry. I love this product; it is such a vibrant gold colour even once it’s dry. I then cut my mats to size using the patterned paper. The large mats edges were curled, in the near future I will post a process video on how I curl the paper edges, it’s such a simple process. The two smaller mats were distressed using a distress tool with a blade.  The edges of all the mats were rubbed with Dreamweaver Metallic Gold Embossing Paste to give them more of an antique and glimmer feel and to soften the already soft colours of the patterned paper. I then laid out all the components to see where they would look best. Always do this before you start to glue things down.

 

The flower embellishment was made using old bits and pieces of stashed items that I found laying around. I hot glued a chipboard element to the flower then layered a micro glitter paper flag with a heart using a Project Life Die. And finally I placed an additional chipboard element a bit off center on top of it all. The original colour of the flower was very nice, a bit more fuchsia in colour as you can see in the above photo, I toned that down with some Gesso painted on to the flower petals.



 

 

And finally the title. It was made using a Project Life clear and gold embellishment with the word “shine” , and a little ivory and gold tag that I had in my stash that said “ Shine like a diamond” and had the little diamond graphic. I fussy cut the graphic, cut off the word “shine” because I was using the Project Life piece for that. The clear “shine” was affixed with a hot glue gun. That ensured that it would stay in place as well as that the glue that would be visible was clear. The wood veneer banner was also glued down with the hot glue gun, then the “like a diamond” was added to the banner. I didn’t want the little metal ring on the banner showing so I placed the diamond graphic on top of it and used pop dots on the side that was hanging off of the tag to give it extra support.

The journaling - “The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard over the roar of a lion.”

Truth be told I stumbled upon this by accident. This was on the bottom banner of the Authentique patterned paper next to the bar code and I thought it was perfect and very appropriate for the message I was trying to relay with this layout.

 



Thanks for stopping by.

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