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10/30/08

daddy & me

I chose to leave this one without a title, but I'm calling it "daddy & me". I started with white cardstock, and then placed the black strip on the right side, and used die-cut black paper for the center border strip. The flourish paper was trimmed from DCWV Alphabet Stack, and was very pale, so I used charcoal colored chalk by Pebbles Inc. to deepen the outer/inner portions of the flourishes and did some outlining and shading with a Zig Photo Signature Black Pen. The journaling was done in MS Word with a downloaded font and printed on Grafix InkJet Adhesive-Backed Paper. The I placed a lot of embellishments on the right side of the photo...I used chip board shapes, flowers, rub ons, stickers and some of my own doodling with my Signo pen. I use a lot of rub-ons from Basic Grey, these are called Urban Calligraphy, and sometimes the size/shape isnt exactly right for the space I need, I trim them very carefully to the exact size i need, ( I do this mainly with the larger or odd shaped flourishes.) and then I use my Signo to lightly add anything that may have been trimmed off. I started with "naked" chipboard (on most of the pieces) and colored the pieces black & white just using a marker, Deco Color markers are fantastic for this because they are so opaque, dry shiny, and is a quicker solution than using acrylic paints.

4 comments:

  1. I just love the way you have the flourishes! I also think the photo corners really are a great touch that sets off the photo beautifully! great work :)

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  2. Oh... how I love this ..I love all the journalling..the flourishes and well all of it.I just think the photo say`s it all...
    `Classy and beautiful`..TFS ....Might look out for deco markers now!!!
    Have a lovely `halloween`:)~X~

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  3. Oh MY! This layout is a show stopper. I love the flourishes as well :) And I love how you altered your paper to be exactly how you wanted it to be. It's all those little details...

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  4. LOVE this layout! Your blog is so pretty! I'll definitely be back!

    Hugs!
    Susan

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