Saturday, October 8, 2011

It Should Have Been So Easy: 2 LGS Layouts

It should have been super-simple: style = shabby-chic/main colour: white; lightly touched with rose and yellow/texture = painted wood. 
Inspiration Photo Let's Get Shabby Challenge #2
But...a funny thing happened on the way to the challenge.   I ended up doing 2 layouts! Neither one really turned out the way I wanted.  But I love them both! 




Young Love:
Layout #1
In this photo, my parents are newly engaged and very in love. The year is 1945. 
You can see some cloudiness in the photo. As I worked with it in my computer program, my youthful parents all of a sudden "appeared" as if by magic out of the mist.
I started with a Crate Paper wooden ruler background. which I dry brushed with white to make it softer.  On top of that, I layered a Pink Paislee Mistable, trimmed and shaped.  I used Distress Stains and Inks in Tattered Rose and Antique Linen. (The Antique Linen Distress Stain takes on a lovely vintagey-yellow rose colour.)





I used white and pink roses, softened them with white paint.

Along the upper/ left edges, I criss-crossed white satin ribbon through white eyelets. (I must be one of the last remaining people who still adores eyelets.)


Tucked behind the rose what-not is a rectangle with a beautiful angel on it. I cut from Pink Paislee Butterfly Garden paper, and journalled some private reflections:


By the time I was finished, I was really happy with my layout and how it all came together.  
But it's totally obvious that its colours are more rose than white! I thought I had used enough white paint to tone everything down. 


"No problem, I will do another layout, and this time I will get that shabby white tonality that I am after," said I to myself.
Still with me?


Pop over to the next post: Layout #2. Click here.








8 comments:

  1. Whowwwww Fran, it'so lovely with your colours and wonderful flowers and embellishments, I love so much the photo on your parents, thanks you to play along shabby whit us !!

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  2. They are both gorgeous Fran, thanks for playing along with us at shabby.

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  3. Fran you have done such a beautiful job with this......I think your colours are perfect and I love the photo. Thanks for playing at Lets Get Shabby.

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  4. Great take of the above picture you really got the interpreted the image beautifully to your layout.

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  5. Both your Layouts are Gorgeous!! Some lovely details :) Thanks for playing with us at Let's Get Shabby :)

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  6. Such a beautiful page! Your colours are perfect and I love the photo. Thanks for playing at Let's Get Shabby.

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