Give a Cheer
Introducing Brooke's little brother, Oliver! (Brooke was the subject of my first layout of the year.) Isn't he cute as can be? He belongs to my boys' middle and high school band teacher and his wife. I just love this picture of him standing amongst the leaves.
And speaking of leaves...the leaves I framed around the picture were from our beautiful Sweet Gum tree. I gathered a bunch of them a few autumns ago and scanned them. A lot of them were bigger than my hand spread out! So I cropped each one individually on my print shop program and reduced them in size for the frame. It took me quite awhile to do that! To save time I copied and pasted after I cropped one to use several times.
What seemed to take so long was choosing my papers for this project and placing them. I originally distressed the edges on all the papers but didn't like the looks of it on the oblong brown paper so I trimmed it down and punched the edges (which was actually my original idea)! The black and off-white tweed piece under the picture is actually from an old dress jacket of my son, Sam's! We got it from Goodwill when he was in middle school and he finally grew into it and wore it out! So I kept some of the fabric and the buttons to use on projects. I thought it matched Oliver's sweater pretty good! :-)
On the wood leaves, I added Tim Holtz Distress Stickles in Antique Bronze, then applied gold microbeads from Reneabouquets (love that stuff) and then added Ranger's Glossy Accents to secure them.
The butterflies are actual photographs that I printed out from my Print Shop program and fussy cut. The swirly piece at the top and the fan-looking thing were cut on my Cricut a long time ago and I felt they were a good color for this.
I decided to add Oliver's name to some metal leaves I had and wanted to use on this layout. I really like how that looks!
This was the first time I've used homemade mist and you can't see much of it...on the brown paper at the top.
Products used not listed on site:
Hot Off The Press Nostalgia Paper Pack (blue background)
K & Company Alleghany Plum Specialty Paper
Fiskars Cloud 9 Simple Thoughts - Boy clear stamps
Reneabouquets gold micro beads
Inkadinkado Foliage Trails clear stamps
K & Company Road Sign Metals
Paper Studio - antique buttons
Thank you so much for stopping by my gallery! Hugs!
Thanks for spreading positivity!
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