yay, i've got some blog posts ready to go this week.
last week i pulled out my scrapbooking supplies and got quite a few layouts made. it felt good to dig back in to some creativity.
the first thing i wanted to do was redo this layout above. when i created it i was playing around with a simplistic approach. i just wanted a stamped background and not much else because i felt the collage of pictures was busy enough. but i knew as soon as i created the layout that i did not like it...at all! however i just didn't have any other ideas for it at the time. this time however i knew exactly what i wanted to do for a redesign.
i started by stripping off the college of images. they were all taped together pretty good so i couldn't do much about that. i did add a couple more pics to change the size a bit.
after adhering the pics to white cardstock i wanted to anchor down the other side of the layout so i added a strip of paper and began adding embellishments accordingly.
before i added the title though i felt that the white cardstock was a bit too stark between the dark pics and the muted blue paper section on the other side. so i thought a bit of watercolor might be nice.
at this point i was a bit nervous about trying to do some watercolor since i was nearly done w/ this layout and it was already the 2nd time i'm dealt w/ these pics. so i grabbed a piece of extra cardstock and tried out a few techniques first. i love the finished look that came out.
i took a watercolor 'pen style' paintbrush that houses water in it and dipped it into a mister huey in the color watercooler. the first brush strokes were a bit too strong in color so i'd swipe the brush across the extra paper until it was the opacity i desired then i'd brush the color onto the layout. it did warp the paper a bit, but i just used a heat gun and it doesn't look too bad.
i'm not sure i'd ever do this again to a layout, but i definitely am happy with the redesign of this one!
~ jess
