Don't you just love it? I had this photo of me and Andrea taken by Hubs 2 weeks ago and I was waiting for the right moment to scrap it.
And it came today with TCR #63 color palette which is gorgeous.
Here's the layout which I'm also submitting for the challenge blog BITW where the word to use in the title or journaling was LIFE/LIVING/LIVE. (for May 22nd challenge). I also followed quite closely Nadia Cannizzo's sketch which was provided for inspiration.
The grey background paper is Little Yellow Bicycle's Halloween paper from a few years back. I just cut the orange border away and brushed some white paint on a couple of spots.
I misted a big paper doily but alas! it was so thin that it took too much color and ended up being too purplish/pinkish as opposed to dark red. So I used the paper towel that I had used to take off the excess mist from the doily.
I love the rose. I colored some book paper with 2-3 different shades of Distress Inks, glued with Glossy Accents the whole page to a clear packaging (Tim's or Heidi's, I don't know , I have practically saved them all and have used them for clear pages and various accents and embellies during the years) and ran it through my Cuttlebug using Tim Holtz's Tattered Flowers die. I heated each layer for awhile with the heatgun until I could manipulate it. I used a wooden skewer to curl the petals a little bit, put 4 layers together and fastened them with an old MM brad. Remember always to color the backside too, since with dimensional embellies you're bound to see some of the backside.
The leaves are made out of grungepaper. I used Studio 490 (Wendy Vecchi's wonderful stamps) stamp. Well, actually I had stamped months ago some leaves after which I had lent the stamp to my friend and she still has it so I used the proto type to cut out my leaves for the rose. None of the Distress Inks had the right color so I mixed some acrylic paints to obtain the yellow I wanted and painted the leaves and did also some stamping on the background with that yellow mix which looks a tad too creamy on screen. It's more yellow IRL.
Here's a closeup of the rose.
Here are some more detailed shots of the layout.
I just love that even though Andrea is this COOL 13-yr old, he's not afraid to show his affection and love and even sit on my lap every now and then :)
