GRAD U 8 -- Scrapbook Pages
Do you find yourself driving down the road and trying to make sense of some of the license plates? UR2CLOSE -- that's obvious! BRUSH'EM -- a Dentist around town had that one!
I don't really text. I guess I would rather talk to someone, and I get rather frustrated to type out all those words ... I suppose you are supposed to write something like this: I GRAD U 8'd!
Having fun with the license plates & texting idea -- and mixing in a little bit of a Scrabble board, these 2 pages were born.
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This child is SO NOT Girly, but I just had to use some girly & feminine papers and embellishments. Especially when they are from one of my favorite brands of paper: IMAGINISCE. For these 8x8 pages, we used the papers from the FOR PEEP'S SAKE collection. The papers are soft & subtle, feminine, and have GLITTER printed into the designs. The "glistening" you see in the photos is the glitter in the paper.
I know the paper collection is called "For Peep's Sake" -- and you are just thinking chicks & bunnies. One of the designs (reverse of the stripe) has a small overall pattern including chicks, bunnies, and other spring things. BUT, most of the papers are more generic than the name of the collection would suggest. Don't judge a paper collection by it's name!
Another wonderful thing about these papers is that they are DOUBLE-SIDED. The papers are nice and sturdy and could be used for any project.
The DRAPIN' DAISIES paper was used along the bottom of each page, while the reverse side of COLOR ME HAPPY was used (stripes). There is also some of the reverse of Drapin' Daisies as photo mat and punched label for the date.
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Scraps of papers were used to punch tag shapes, a few small pieces of Magic Mesh were added, scraps of ribbons added here & there, flowers and of course, BLING.
I layered the flowers. Some are Bazzill, some are Prima, some are paper, some are silk. Just mix and match.
Color was the main way we chose the flowers, then we looked at the textures. This is a departure from my normal pages where the flowers would ALL be same, perhaps different sizes. But no garden has all the same flowers, right?
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A close-up of the top right of this page shows the detail (explained below).
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The Rhinestone BLING was used in several ways.
For the center of flowers, various sizes were chosen. The same color was used for the centers to tie all the various flowers together.
The smallest rhinestones in the set (Doodlebug Design) were used to make a circle around my DD receiving her diploma. Yea, you can hardly see her. At least with the rhinestones, your eye is drawn to that part of a very busy photo!
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A close-up of the title reveals it's meaning: Graduate, You Are Great! You have to read it like a Scrabble board. The letters in the title are from various alphabets -- again, mixing & matching shapes & colors.
A Gel pen was used to make the square shape around each letter. WE LOVE the gel pens. Some fun ideas on how to use the gel pens coming (along with the clear button ideas).
