It Takes a Real Man to be a Dad – Creative Embellishments May challenge

For the Creative Embellishments May Challenge, there’s an inspiration photo to combine with a sketch created by Nicolle. Like several others, I was inspired by the flowers in the inspo image, so I incorporated flowers on what at first appears to be quite a masculine page. I also loved the visual texture of the mountains, so I selected papers that mimicked them to me (the blue papers). From the sketch I carried over the circle elements from the background and incorporated the splatters, circular rope frame and matted my photo with a panel (the steampunk gear panel). I replaced the element on the lower right with elements from the baby, baby, baby wood veneer set. For this layout, I decided to leave my pieces bare to go with the earthy feel of the background. Here’s how my example turned out:

real man to be a dad

Here’s a close up of the layering in the upper left:

detail 1

The layering on the bottom right of the photo:

detail 2

The adorable wood veneers:

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TFL!

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2 Comments (+add yours?)

  1. mjmarmo
    May 01, 2014 @ 15:57:51

    Stunning as always!!

  2. nkramer74
    May 01, 2014 @ 19:35:30

    Sweet pic and awesome layout!! love all the layers and background work.

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