Happy Together 6×8 Layout

For this weeks memory keeping Monday blog post I’m sharing this Happy Together 6×8 layout. The photo is a single 3″x 4″ photo of us with a few family members from Calgary. We went to this delicious Greek restaurant called Broken Plate. It was amazing! If you are from the Calgary area, I highly recommend it.

When I sat down to create the layout I was in the mood to play. I didn’t want to just stamp and die cut. So I grabbed some water colour paper and created a wash which is what’s shown below.

Here’s how I did it…

1. Choose your ink colours and add a drop of refill to the lid of each ink pad.
2. Spritz the watercolour paper with water.
3. Using the widest water painter add the first colour to the water colour paper. I found it best to start with the lightest colour and work my way up. It works best with a wet brush so either squeeze your water painter or have a dish of water handy.
4. After adding the wheat to a few different areas, I went in with some moody mauve and then copper clay ensuring all areas were covered.
5. Then I used the heat tool to dry the card stock.
6. I trimmed it down to 6″ and used the changing leaves hybrid folder and dies to cut the leaves. This gave a beautiful embossed leaf image.
7. The die that goes with the embossing folder only cuts three leaves so I fussy cut the rest of the embossed leaves and used those around the circle on the right page.

To fill in the clusters I die cut a few of the sprigs and leaves that are also included in the die set. The photo felt like it needed a little something to make it pop off the page so I backed it with a bit of white and then grabbed a scrap piece of copper clay dsp and a piece of wild wheat card stock. To add a bit of texture I tore the dsp and crumpled the wheat card stock. Neither of these pieces mat the entire photo but it does provide a few more layers and makes the photo feel more substantial on the layout.

I really didn’t want to waste all those pretty leaves so I thought I’d add them around a die cut circle that holds my title and journaling. To finish off the layout, I added some copper dots.

Hope you enjoyed this weeks memory keeping project. I’ve been having fun catching up on my 6×8 album.

Until next time,

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