***I have copied & pasted straight from the
Scrapbook Challenges forum thread where I have just posted this challenge - you have until SUNDAY 17 JULY TO PLAY ALONG - all details below ***
***THIS IS ALSO MY JULY RAK POST - SEE RAK BELOW - TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT & BECOME A FOLLOWER IF YOU ARE NOT ONE ALREADY - DRAW END JULY - THANKS GIRLS!***
My June RAK was won by Yolande Sowden & I am still to post her winning layout here soon!
Flying out again to get my son to vocal coaching, pick up my girls from the mall then create another layout due in today :) HAPPY SCRAPPING! I'll visit you soon - promise ♥
Hi Girls! This is my last challenge as my DT term here is up & I have decided to move on to other things. I have loved my time here with you all & thank you all for playing along with me so enthusiastically. I have made many wonderful friends & I will continue to pop in & see you from time to time! For now I am going to show you how I go about creating a floral layout for a BOY!
I LOVE pretty scrapbooking supplies & generally don't buy a lot of boy-themed scrapbooking products even though I have 2 sons & a husband. Life is just too short to buy stash you just don;t like! So...what to do???!!! Use PRIMA of course!
1). CHOOSE YOUR PHOTO. To begin with you need a photo that is suitable. Choose one where the clothes your subject is wearing are neutral if possible, as pages always look better if you can match your layout to the photo.
2) EDIT YOUR PHOTO. If your photo isn't already printed lighten it up using the "highlighter" slider - to make it "whiter" & to get rid of some of the background. Play around with the light sliders in your editing program (and your saturation levels) so you end up with a photo that's suitable to work with. That's half your battle won.
3) CHOOSE YOUR PAPERS Now select your papers & other products that you think you may end up using on your layout. I took out some Prima & Webster's Pages stash, although I ended up only using Prima on this layout.
I used Prima Madeline on my page as the colours are quite strong & not too pastel or feminine.
As you can see my background paper is mosly neutral & although I ended up using a floral border sticker there isn't much of it as it only appears in really small quantities at each side of my layout.
4. FIND YOUR SKETCH/INSPIRATION. Next, choose a sketch or an inspiration piece to work from, just to get your creative juices flowing & get you started. I used the Prima BAP for this month.
5. SHUFFLE. Start thinking about what you'll place where & start cutting & arranging your elements without actually adhering anything yet. I didn't want to introduce another sheet of paper on top of my cardstock as they all looked too "girly" so I cut up my Prima Packaging (the acrylic doily shapes with the white printing) & adhered these in a scallop shape instead, then stuck them down using tiny amounts of tape on the white areas so that it wouldn't show through the front
6. MiST/STAMP/PAINT/ETC. If you are going to "treat" your background paper in any way now is the best time BEFORE you start adhering your elements into place. I used Studio Calico "Mr Huey" Clover & Smooch Spritz Deep Red.
The trick with misting is to keep it light & get your angle right. Slightly overshoot the page, don't squirt directly down onto it. Rather too little than too much.
To achieve the splodge dots take off the lid & tap the top of it so that the drops slide down the suction tube onto your page.
7. START STICKING. I chose a journaling sticker for my frame & slid it under my photo before adhering it - so that my photo is framed just up in the top left - then I used a border sticker, cut to size, for the other 3 sides of my photo "frame" & stuck them down, then added the maroon floral border strip at each side of the photograph. I fussy cut the journaling sentiment from some Prima paper & adhered this over the left-hand side of the photo to cover an ugly window that was in the background of the photo.
8. TITLE UP. Once your foundation is in place (papers/photos/stickers, etc) add in your title BEFORE you embellish. It is an integral part of your design so shouldn't look like an after-thought that you've had to squash in!
I used last season Prima alphabet stickers but wanted them a darker colour so I customised them using Colourbox inks in various shades of maroon & brown, to match my layout.
You mustn't be impatient & use these until they are completely dry or they'll smudge your beautiful, almost complete page! So get up & go & put the dinner on, then come back to them in about 10 minutes!
9. EMBELLISH. Take a look at your flowers & other embellishments & decide which ones will work on a "boy" page. I used my gold "Precious Metals" ones as the olde gold colour already looked good, but I customised them further by painting on a tiny bit of dark blue mist on one & maroon mist on the other. I left them to dry then sealed them with a coat of clear glitter nail varnish.
I wanted to use a metallic Prima Vine but it looked too ostentatious, so I cut it up into 7 different pieces, discarded the thick central stem & glue-dotted the branches into place, bending them into the right shapes as I went along.
I added a pearl flower centre to the end of my title & a cut a Prima Bling Swirl into two pieces & tucked one underneath my metallic Vine scroll above my flower cluster & added the other half to the top of my journaling sentiment cut-out. (I ended up using another vine but you get the idea!)
10. Something I so often "almost" forget is to add the date! This is REALLY important because future generations will be looking through your albums one day wanting to know all about "Great Uncle Jack" or whoever! And without a date they'll just be guessing!
I hope you enjoyed my tutorial & are all ready to play along! I will keep this challenge open until Sunday July 17th & will keep checking back for entries.
I will be choosing a winner on July 17th & will put in TWO entries for you into my July RAK which you can see below. So you will have a double chance of winning it IF you leave a comment on my July RAK post AND are a follower of my blog (if not you can become one). You can find my blog @
http://helentilbury.blogspot.com & look out for the RAK post coming up any time in July (before the 17th). You can leave a comment as soon as you see this post (to be in with a chance to win even if you don't get the challenge in on time) then when I am choosing a RAK winner I will the challenge winner here an extra number (chance of winning) in my July RAK when I draw it at the end of July.
As you can see it's all BOY STASH & I'm just not that into it anymore! But there is tons of stuff there. Lots of colourful brads, chipboard, metals, rub-ons, Bingo cards & other game cards, felt words, tags, sentiments, stickers & alphas so if you want to WIN A CHANCE TO WIN!! please play along & CREATE A FLORAL LAYOUT for one of the men/boys in your life! Enjoy!!