Treasure

I have had this photo in my box, ready for scrapbooking for some time - it was taken in 2011 and shows my daughter Catherine with baby Annabelle (who was her 8 year old flower girl last month). Annabelle is now Catherine's niece by marriage.

I have finally used the 12" x 12" watercolour paper I purchased a while ago, together with a selection Distress Oxide Inks.

I started by placing a selection of blue and pink Distress Oxide Inks onto my craft mat and mixing each colour with a little water, I flicked some specks of colour over the watercolour paper.

With a sheet of Cocoa Vanilla Studio paper - from the Happiness collection called 'So Fresh', I did a lot of fussy cutting! I cut the wreath free of the paper and then carefully cut away the inside too. I saved the scraps for later. I placed the majority of the wreath to the bottom right of the page, as shown and slued this in place. then I trimmed off the excess. The remainder of the wreath was then used in the top left of the layout. Any left over, incomplete, flowers were tucked into the areas already glued into place.

With the remains of the patterned paper, I cut a photo mount and using the side showing the blue hearts. placed the photo into position. This was then adhered to the centre of the wreath , tucked under the flowers.

With a round paintbrush I painted the title with some watered down Distress Ink. I added a little detail journalling along the side of the photo. Finally a smattering of flat-backed pearls in a variety of colours was added here and there.
Here they are 8 years later:

A relatively simple layout, the time consuming part being the fussy cutting. I'm enjoying using different medium to paint or pen titles, and the Distress Oxide worked well on the water colour paper. A light mist with water helped this and the coloured specks to wick a little too.

Thanks for looking,
Lynn x