You Inspire me- Prima GD Part #1

As February's GD at Prima I made a few projects for their blog. This is the first one in more detail. I will upload the other ones in the next few days.

Well I did take a lot of pictures of my kids at the beach and I love scrapping them. I designed this layout right after we came back from vacation so the ocean breeze was still imprinted in my mind.

I have a new technique I've been experimenting with lately. I start by adding pieces of old chipboard onto a page and then I stencil them with the same shape using some paste and mists.

Here I used some old Technique Tuesday diamond shapes and then stenciled diamonds on the chipboard. 

I used some Shimmerz sprays to match the diamond's color to the background.

I find this technique adds lots of depth, volume and layering to a layout and I've repeated this process over and over again in the past few weeks. You've seen me using hexagons, circles and squared frames. In the next few days I will use squares and flowers too.

I love adding ripped pieces of cheese cloth underneath embellishments. It creates softness and depth. I also loved adding shells onto this layout!!

Products Used

#844165 Almanac Collection Wordsmith

#844011 Songbird Collection Collage

#554903 Journaling Note cards Songbird Collection

#552817 Le Coque pearl flower

#557317 Charlotte Nectar flowers

#558130 Cherise Sultan flowers

#555658 Camille Sunkiss flowers

#555481 Lucerne Belle flowers

#539139 Calcutta Leaves Oatmeal

#554330 Cardstock alphabet stickers: Fairy Belle

#891534 Junkyard findings typo bulbs 2

#559953 Velvet baubles: Craftsman collection

Prima artist aids leaves

Other products used:

Gesso, Stencil, Shells, Diamond shaped chipboard, beads, Martha Stewart textured paste, Shimmerz.

Have a magical day!!