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I've had this picture of my husband in a folder for several years. It is a favorite of mine and I finally got around to making a layout that was a bit out of my comfort zone and style. I kind of like how it turned out though.

I took this picture of him when he helped me climb the hill behind our place to the plateau and see if we could get a glimpse of some bluebirds. The sunflowers were so pretty in bloom and I love the view of the Cascades and lovely clouds. I just noticed he's wearing one of the western shirts I made him a long time ago! :-)

I decided to expand the picture instead of doing one with lots of embellies. I found green paper that would match the green in the picture first, tore the edges to continue with the slope and then I decided to try and extend the hills as well. The blue scrap paper I used for that wasn't quite dark enough so I inked in with Tim Holtz Faded Jeans and added a little Colorbox off-white chalk ink for fading snow on the hills. For the clouds I used Waverly white chalk paint using my finger to paint it on.

I wanted to use TH Mustard Seed ink pad for my sunflower stamp but after testing it on a sample it wouldn't show up, so I bought some yellow paint and mixed a little orange in it to match the sunflowers better. I stamped and heat embossed the evergreen trees to look like they were on the other side of the hill mixing TH Black Soot & Iced Spruce. I also stamped and heat embossed the stems, grass and other plants. For the centers of the flowers I used Antique Bronze distress stickles. My one off-the-wall item used on this is birch bark for the tree stumps. (You can actually see one in the picture to the left of Kenneth.)

I inked the little wood bluebirds in with TH Salty Ocean...a new one I just bought and I love that color! Last I dabbed a bit of paper towel onto a chalk ink pad and dabbed it here and there for whitish colored blooms.

Thank you so much for stopping by my gallery!


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