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Now that school is out and May is over, I seem to have finally found some scrappy time for ME. I'm behind a month in my Swirlydoos kits - this is from my May kit, which I wasn't even able to get opened until just yesterday! I LOVE this kit. The colors are so SO gorgeous, and the Glitz paper line is right up my style alley, so this layout went together at almost light speed.
The photograph is of me and my siblings - it's not often that all four of us manage to get together, so when that happens, it's a cause for photographic celebration. My father is not in the picture. He was sick that weekend and spent the entire weekend upstairs in bed. I'm the second from the right, between my brother and my mom.
The dusty attic chipboard flourishes were a bit of serendipity. I colored them with some magical mica fire poker orange and then a one step crackle medium, and they looked ok. But when I turned them OVER, the back sides -- you know, the side that isn't supposed to show -- were absolutely spectacular. The color was all splotchy and looked like old rusted out iron - so I swiped them with my walnut ink distress stain and used them that way. I love discovering happy accidents like that.
The corner floral base is a ribbon that I wound around my hand, then tied together in the middle and spread out the loops. Then I glued the florals down on top of that. I like how it ended up kind of looking like leaves.
For the photo mat, I painted the one-step crackle medium over the edges and then let that dry. When it was done, I touched it just a tad with my heat gun to really pop the cracks and then inked it up with my walnut stain. I like how that turned out.
I wet distressed the two patterned papers, but other than those three little secrets, everything else is pretty much what you see. Thanks for taking a peek.
It sure feels good to be back at my desk!
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