"Family Get Together" Double Layout

Good Morning

I am back on the Off The Rails Scrapbooking Design Team and today I am sharing my first layout created for them using the February Moodboard

This is my layout

This is the Moodboard

I created a process video for this layout and you can see it here

Both of these pages are the same so the description for one is the same as the other.

I started with 2 sheets of Kaisercraft - Love Notes - Dreamy paper and I cut that to 11" square. These were then attached to plain black cardstock that had been trimmed to 11 1/4" square.

Using my palette knife I applied a liberal coat of Gesso to the LoveNotes paper to mute the pattern but thin enough that you could still see the pattern lightly through it.

When the gesso was completely dry, it was left overnight, I used my hot glue gun to attach this assembly to a sheet of DCWV orange burlap. I have a whole pad of these burlap sheets and wanted to use some. I thought it would make an interesting border to my page. The two layers of cardstock on top of the burlap gave it enough strength to hold its shape and be quite stable when it is picked up.

Next step was to apply some Candied Apple Distress Ink through a Kaisercraft stencil using a blending tool. I do not know the name of the stencil but it is one of those that have 4 of 6" x 6" stencils on a 12" x 12" piece. I have cut the stencils up and thrown the packaging away so the name is long gone. The stencil has assorted sized cubes on it.

I had not used this technique before and really enjoyed doing it so decided to get a little more adventurous. I used a Scrapbooking Australia circle stencil and a Prima zigzag stencil, laying the zig zags on top of the circle and applying Ripe Persimmon Distress Ink through the double layer so I gat zig zag filled circles. Before I lifted the stencil I used my Uniball Eye Micro black pen to draw around the circles

Stencils were my main tool in creating this layout and for my next element I mixed some Sunrise Orange Acrylic paint with Mont Marte Modelling Paste and put it through TCW's Chevron stencil, in three areas on each page. I allowed this to dry and then drew a rough outline around each chevron.

I chose some patterned papers from my stash, the orange one is PaperWerx - Organic Collection, The yellow is Prima - Eire Collection and the red with the black text is Craft Concepts - Vintage Grunge Collection. I cut two pieces of the Yellow 1 @ 5" x 4" and 1 @ 5" x 3".

three pieces of the Red 1 @ 6 1/4" x 3/4", 1 @ 5 7/8" x 1 1/2" and 1 @ 4 7/8" x 1"

and two pieces of the Orange 1 @ 6 3/4" x 1" and 1 @ 5 1/4" x 1"

All of the photos were matted on the Red cardstock and cut to 1/4" larger than the photo so they had a 1/8" border all around.

All of the papers have had their edges inked with black ink.

I wanted to add a bit more black to the layout so I used a swirly heart stamp and some Archival Jet Black ink to stamp randomly on the page. I have had this stamp for may years, it used to be attached to a wooden block. I removed the wooden block because they were too bulky for storage and in doing so I lost the brand and name of the stamp.

Using Tattered Angels Chalkboard spray and a brush I splattered Tomate Cerise over the layout using masks in the photos so they did not get any splatters.

To create the title I used Kaisercraft's Alphabet Upper Case DD700 and black cardstock to die cut the letters and attached them to the layout using glue.

Wow a long post today.

Thank you for spending some of your day here with me today

I hope you will pop over to my YouTube channel and check out the video showing just how this page came together

Till next time

Hugs

Julie