Showing posts with label clean and simple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clean and simple. Show all posts

Saturday, 11 September 2010

...she'll be coming round the mountain when she comes

My other two Innsbruck pages are finished (I posted here last week about the first two pages).

I ended up with one very plain, very simple page (with a really fun photo that we obtained quite by accident - we bought a postcard, then went to sit outside a bar to write the postcard... and there was the very scene on the postcard). I was going to add more photos up the right-hand side, but I liked how it looked so much that it would've been ruinous to carry on glueing:

I stuck a couple of strips across the page near to the bottom, one an old adhesive ribbon, one a spotty-cloudy thing from Echo Park's Sweet Summertime collection. I cut a few tag shapes, and altered a couple of them by adding a transparent sticker and by stamping and embossing in clear ink and powder, and arranged them underneath the photo, on top of an old tram ticket. I also made a little flower bigger by adding a brad and layers of an old atlas:

The other page is a fun, centrally focused page to immortalise a great little memory - a surprise at the top of our mountain walk:

I used a lot of Cosmo Cricket Early bird stuff on this page, as well as Echo Park Sweet Summertime stickers. I added journalling around the edge for two reasons: to explain the memory, of course, and also to keep it from invading the page too much. By sticking to the page boundary I kept the page clean but was still able to write about our discovery.

I was really happy to match some of the photo's colours to the chipboard birdie:

And wanted to add some vertical to the page, which I did with a long adhesive ribbon, a stamp and a long transparent sticker:


I loved making this page - thinking about the shapes, the colours, the proportions of everything. I can feel a definite style developing...

Thursday, 3 June 2010

All About Me

I've been doing a lot of soul-searching lately. I'm no closer to any answers, but I did portray the questions on a layout:



I finally got my sewing machine out and added some stitching to the page, and I used foam pads to raise the words off the page. I also watered down some acrylic paint, put it in a little spray bottle, and sprayed it onto the page.

Monday, 24 May 2010

Clean and Simple

Continuing on a theme... yesterday I tried a layout with many layers and bits and pieces and really wasn't happy with it. So I reclaimed the photos and put them away for another attempt later. Instead, I've gone the other way entirely and attempted a page with minimalistic embellishment. I like it. It's not what I usually do, but I can see the effectiveness of using only a few decorations in highlighting the feature of the page, the photo.

I could see this type of page being framed and hung on the wall. For this one I used a scalloped 30x30 page:


I added simple embellishments - just 3 flowers and a tag:

And I tried a paint-spattering method over a swirly mask:


That's it - clean and simple. I'd like to work on this style a little more to add it to my repertoire.




Keep it Simple

More cards... this time for an older male birthday. Mass production is forcing me to keep it simple at the moment, but I think the effect is striking: