It's Design Team Tuesday and today Erin has prepared a fabulous tutorial for all of you. Erin wants to show you how to use our journaling punchouts along with gesso to create a mixed media project with our Farmer's Market collection.
"Family" Layout
By: Erin Yamabe
Here's what you'll be using
The foundation of your layout is the b side of Fresh from the Field. Trim 3/4" off two sides of Sweet Pea. Corner round all edges. Adhere to Fresh from the Field, brown side up.
Cut at 7.5 by 3.75 " strip from the Tutti Fruiti paper, b side. This will be the piece your photos attach to
Punch out the following diecuts from sheet: green border strip, green flower, pink scallop rectangle, two circle flowers, yellow/green rectangle, and red/pink flower.
Except for the green border strip, those diecuts will be the background of your layout. Arrange in a 1/2 circle, using the green/yellow flower up top center, and continue to your right. The bottom diecut will be your red/pink flower. Place the Tutti Fruiti strip of paper as a guide, to the left center, making sure those diecut pieces peak through.
Adhere the diecut pieces down to brown paper. [Except green border strip]
Mix some gesso with a small amount of the Tattered Angels Firefly.
Liberally apply that mixture over diecuts and center of layout, leaving about 1" of the brown paper showing. Wipe away any excess of the gesso.
Flick some of the Firefly yellow onto your gesso. Allow to dry.
Stamp the daisy flower with versamark around edges of layout, overlapping onto the orange paper.
Stamp the daisy flower with versamark onto the green border strip. Spray with Marshmellow glimmer mist.
Adhere with foam dots the green border strip along the bottom of diecuts, with about 1/2 of the red/pink flower showing from the bottom.
Adhere 3 photos onto the blue paper, distress and ink edges with creamy brown. Adhere to left center, just above green border strip. Tuck under 1/2 of small flower diecut.
From the Cherries Jubliee paper, you will cut out the borders from the 3rd strip down. Cut in 1/2, and adhere to top of page, using middle photo as center.
Cut 2 flower circle stickers from sticker sheet in half, place around edges of layout.
Add title and journal.
Staple a piece of the white ribbon underneath ride side of green border strip.
Now you have a fun mixed media themed project! We love using Glue Arts products and thank them for supplying Erin with the Glue Glider adhesive gun. Be sure and stop by th Glue Arts Blog for the next two weeks as they will be creating with My Little Shoebox products and featuring work from some of our designers too! They'll even be prizes to be won too!
Thanks for stopping by the MLS blog today!
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Posted by: waterproof boots | 03/31/2011 at 09:44 PM
Love your work Erin!
Posted by: HeatherC | 03/22/2011 at 08:57 PM
Thank you for sharing this great project with us! It is wonderful.
Posted by: Tina M. | 03/22/2011 at 01:14 PM