my favorite weather

Cheers

Great job on your firsts. This page is beautiful. Love the back ground!

April 17, 2006

my favorite weather

My first BOM page! It's true, my favorite weather is when it's really windy and cloudy and a light drizzle. Everyone looks at me funny and asks if I'm not cold.
This was my first time making my own background (well, apart from some vanilla chalking), and I think I like it! Also my first time crumpling paper, stamping, embossing, tearing a photo, embossing a photo, using a white marker, using letter die-cuts, altering the letters... Wow, that's a lot of firsts. Normally I'm more of a clean-line person, but I think I'm going to branch out and have fun with the BOM.

There are lots of fun techniques in this one! The background started as a plain Bazzill cardstock page, linen texture. I used white and black and navy paint to make it lighter in one corner and darker in a nother, and also to emphasise the texture (I was finger-painting just lightly across the surface, so the paint didn't get into the deeper bits). Then I drew the big blue lines with a marker, added some white bits with another marker, and stamped with black paint for the ferns (I tried black ink too, but the paint looked cooler and more black). Then I made raindrops with a Versamarker, and embossed them with clear powder, so they actually look wet.
The photo is torn, and also actually embossed - it was already there when I was finishing up the raindrops, and some powder stuck to it - first I was scared that I had burned it or something, but then I ended up going ahead and heating the powder instead of brushing it off. It ended up being a fun effect.
The small letters are just hand-written with a white marker. The large ones are cut out of white Bazzill with a die-cut machine, crumpled, inked black, and chalked blue. Lots of fun!

The background I actually did in a class at my LSS - it was about making pages inpired by random ads in magazines, and was pretty cool. I didn't decide what I was going to do with it until later - the inspiration was shadows of leaves and glass things, and mine ended up looking more like wind then like shadows, so I went with the weather theme.