This must have taken so long to do! Everyone has commented on the flowers - those don't bother me like the thin 'so' in the title. Make it beefier - it seems so weak. Maybe give it an outline, or cut it out of the same font as adorable...
Did you do this all by hand? WOW... I love where you were going with this, but I do have a few suggestions. First, I would take the doodling and continue it around the right and top edges so that it meets in the top right corner and maybe creages the effect that the flowers are coming from it. I think that would really tie things together. I would also suggest creating a subtle shadow behind your lettering.
What I think i'd do is move the flowers to the bottom right to "anchor" them with the glitter swirlies. I'd then straighten the title out, or you can use that top right corner that would then be empty to journal in. Awesome paper i absolutlely love the glitter and swirlies
Great comments so far! This is a cool start, love the glitter & photo. I don't know if those swirls are doodles, stickers or what, but I can imagine them covering the whole perimeter. That would take care of anchoring the flowers as people have said (I don't necessarily have a problem w/ the floating flowers but I think that it would look awesome if they were anchored on more glitter swirlies!). And a huge DITTO to Moi's suggestion on adding some journaling, if only a who and when. Even if it goes in an album w/ only one child in it, you at least want to know when this photo was taken. HTH, can't wait to see what you come up with here!
OK, you have so far received some awesome suggestions. I agree with all of them, especially the anchoring of the flowers. LOVE the glitter. Now, my suggestion I am actually a bit nervous about, I LOVE the doodled petals on the flower. I am just wondering how it would look if you took a red colored pencil and colored in outlines only of the petals to make them stand out a bit more. Don't color all of them in (hope i'm explaining this well) just a bit thicker outline of the main "petals" if that makes sense.
That photo is just amazing! I think you should use one more brown flower right next to the other once. I can see some more glitter swirls around the flowers. Also the title doesn't look right to me -may be change the color.
I agree with the others on this one, especially anchoring those flowers. I'd like to see more blue to pick up on your niece's eyes. Maybe you could keep the title's current color as a shadow. Use your Opposites Attract Cricut font to cut the same thing in blue and place those letters on top of the current ones. I'm also thinkin' that photo should be enlarged to cover almost the entire center of that flower, leave out the yellow mat, and show just a sliver of that shiny orange all the way around.
Fun... very "spiro-graphic". Who is it? When is it? Remember your scrapbooks will last longer than you {fingers crossed} - They have to be able to stand the this test... Can you hand it to someone to peruse without standing over their shoulder saying, "...and this is Uncle Tommy, and that is little Susie when she was 2, and..."
HI Jen .. I love that glitter, it's very fun. The photo placement is perfect because it follows the rule of thirds. My eyes are draw to it!
I am not digging the title because I see it in some orange to mute it a little .. I don't want it to overpower that beautiful photo!
Jen, love this. That paper is unbelievably beautiful or did you do all of that by hand. I'm in love! The little bit of bling/glitter is perfect. Fabby. Alright, let's see. That yellow. Not a fan. Might be a personal preference, but it draws too much attention away from the picture itself. It is competing and unfortunately it's winning. I see the yellow mat that you used and I see what you were going for, but I think I would tone down the yellow. You could use some chalk in a neural color and dab it around the edge of the yellow mat and then do the same thing on the flower. Maybe even use a color that is similar to the other flower. Also, the flowers are kind of floating. They need some kind of anchor. Maybe a hand drawn flourish the scrolls to the top right corner. Something. This is a beautiful LO and just needs a little fine tuning. You go girl!
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