These Clowns Rock

Hi there!

Today, I am sharing a very simple layout that goes with my previous Canal Days Circus layout. I don't do too many masculine pages, anymore.  But, I am really happy with the way this turned out considering there is a lot of pink in the papers..

The papers are from the Maggie Holmes Carousel collection with a few stickers and the "You are Wonderful" ephemera piece.  The small alphas in the title are very old Prima Marketing fabric stickers. The large letters for the title are some old Tim Holtz Grungeboard that I misted black.  The chipboard camera is from Maggie Holmes Bloom, the XOXO from Heidi Swapp and the wood veneer "You're a Peach" is from 1 Canoe 2.

I cut out the three banners in the top right of the layout from the packaging from the small Prima alphas. I love it when packaging can be re-purposed for a layout.

Adding the bold pops of black helps make the page more masculine and  the doodled border around all the pieces of paper ties it all together.

Thanks for looking!

Sylvie

Towel Art Conversation

Hi there!

Today I have a layout made from the Progressively Better Challenge on the Paper Issues Facebook Page.  This is always a fun challenge to take part in.  I've created some of my favourite layouts using this challenge.

There are a lot of different collections here: Maggie Holmes Carousel, Shine and Bloom. I found the swan paper in the Carousel collection and the swan chipboard sticker from the Bloom collection.  If I didn't use those now, when could I use them?  ;)

The hibiscus die cuts is a free cutfile from Paper Issues. I cut them from a piece of Carousel paper, and used my Wink of Stella to put shimmer on the centre of each flower.

One step of the challenge was to use a 12"x1" piece of paper.  I used that paper to  make the rosette.  Such a pain to make, but so cute in the end.  I thought it suited the subject of the page since it was folding and tucking.  LOL!

Thanks for looking!
Sylvie