Sunkissed

Jun 2, 2011

This is one of my favorite sum­mer pho­tos of Ans­ley. It was taken the sum­mer before her fresh­man year of high school. All the bright col­ored pat­terned papers work per­fectly with her swim­suit. I inked, punched, stitched and dis­tressed all over this layout.

The cir­cle back­ground is stitched to look like a sum­mer gar­land and I had to add but­ter­fly accents because what would sum­mer be with­out but­ter­flies? The dis­tressed edges of each cir­cle add dimen­sion to the lay­out. Dia­mond Stickle accents added to the edges of the tags, but­ter­flies, hor­i­zon­tal strip and the pho­tos edges and mat bring on the bling which as you know, I love so much. The ver­ti­cal edges of the aqua and white mat are trimmed with scal­lop scis­sors to add some inter­est as well as a lit­tle pop of yel­low card­stock in the upper and lower right and left corners.

I hope you see a few tech­niques you like and give them a try.

Prod­ucts used in this lay­out are from the Cocoa Daisy “Cherry Soda” June Main Kit, “Fruit Smoothie”, “Banana Split” and “Choco­late Malt” Add On Kits.