12×12 single page single photo layout

Soar – Creative Embellishments and CSI Case 161 plus Stuck?! Sketches April 1st challenge

11 Apr 2015 5 Comments

by dlwidder in Scrapbook Layouts Tags: 12x12 single page single photo layout, Creative Embellishments, distress ink, Distress Stain, Flat Fabios, laser cut chipboard, Lindy's Stamp Gang, mixed media, Pitt artist markers, startbursts, Webster's Pages

Several members of the Creative Embellishments team are on the CSI, Color Stories Inspiration ning sharing how we cracked case 161. 😀 For my take on this challenge, also used a sketch from Stuck?! Sketches.

Here’s what I came up with:

Close ups of the cluster to the left of my photo:

Close up of the view master slide chippies:

Here’s the Case 161 inspiration board:

From the evidence column, I opted to include circles, a clock, wet mediums, and something that flies. From the testimony column, I went with journaling in a circular shape.

This is the fabulous Stuck?! Sketches sketch I used for my page:

Materials:

Creative Embellishments Carousel Horses
CE Steampunk Gear Clock 3
CE View Master Photo Slides
CE Rings for So Many Things
Webster’s Pages pp
Pitt artist markers
Lindy’s Stamp Gang Flat Fabio mists
Lindy’s Stamp Gang Starburst Mists
Distress inks
Distress stains
gesso

Thanks for looking! I hope you play along with the CSI case files this month for your chance to win a Creative Embellishments gift voucher! Be sure to stop by the CE blog here to check out the rest of my team member’s examples: CE Blog and visit the csi ning to play along with their case files: CSI ning

To play along with the Stuck?! Sketches April 1st challenge, visit their blog here: Stuck?! Sketches.

Like a Mother to Me – layout for Creative Embellishments

08 May 2014 1 Comment

by dlwidder in Scrapbook Layouts Tags: 12x12 single page single photo layout, acrylic paint, baby, Distress Stain, flourish, frame, grandmother, laser cut chipboard, role model

Hi everyone, it’s Thursday again, which means I’m up on the Creative Embellishments blog with a layout to share. This week, I went with a page featuring my mil. I’ll be honest, I really struggled with how to do this page. My mil is a very simple woman and likes simplicity. My daughter’s favorite color is purple (which I struggle with) and she loves flowers, but my mil likes CAS. What a really wanted to capture is what a wonderfully inspirational and fabulous role model she truly is. I hope I did her justice. For my page I incorporated one of the new fancy rectangle frames which I altered with a couple of different distress stains and blended together. I did the same with the antique clock which I topped off with one of the new Mother’s Day flair pieces and the green part of the Spring flourish. I then colored the flowers on the flourish using Pitt artist markers and while it was still wet, went over it with gesso to mute the color, yet have it bleed through. I worked it with the brush to draw out more of the color and create some variegation. Here’s how my page turned out:

TFL!

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

01 May 2014 2 Comments

by dlwidder in Scrapbook Layouts Tags: 12x12 single page single photo layout, 13 Arts, baby, children, Creative Embellishments, father, flowers, laser cut chipboard, stencils, Wood Veneers

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:

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

The layering on the bottom right of the photo:

The adorable wood veneers:

TFL!

#Cute Pup – layout for Creative Embellishments

24 Apr 2014 1 Comment

by dlwidder in Scrapbook Layouts Tags: 12x12 single page single photo layout, boy laser cut chipboard, Creative Embellishments, mixed media, rubber stamps, son, stamping, Wood Veneers

Hi, everyone! Doris here and after a week off, I’m back with a layout to share! I’ve been hoarding these fun 13arts papers for a little while and finally decided to break them out and use them for a page of my 2nd youngest son. This is an older photo that was taken when he was just 2 1/2 year old, but I couldn’t resist scrapping it using a combination of Creative Embellishments Dog Gone Cute and Firefighter wood veneers. 😀 Here’s what I came up with: