Here is the final result of from the layout I started in Episode #2, Brainstorm A Layout! By the time I got the picture of this layout saved for flickr it lost a lot of its saturation. The real thing is much brighter. But I am super happy with my layout.
Let me give you some fundamental information about the layout and then in my next blog entry we’ll talk about how it got from the four-step brainstorm process you saw on the podcast to this completed piece.
Journaling:
This story appeared on www.mommybloggers.com.
Should I reveal my secret? The secret about my husband and myself? Should I risk destroying any credibility I may have with mommy-bloggers who read my work? We are the couple that broke the odds. We’re the couple that should not have made it past our first year. And yet, this summer we will celebrate our tenth year of rewarding matrimony. Ten years, and we’re more in love, and more compatible.
So what’s the secret I’m too foolish not to share? My husband and I got engaged only two weeks after our first date. And no, we didn’t know each other for years as friends before that fateful date. We met the previous month in a gold-level Latin Ballroom dance class. We exchanged a few words as we rotated partners to and away from each other. We practiced together one time at an out-of-class dance lab, which led to the first date, which led to the kiss at the second date, which led to the engagement a week later. The wedding that sealed the deal came two and a half months after that.
Go ahead and say it. My friends did. My parents did. We were crazy. We were naive. We were risky and daring and probably even stupid. But lucky for us, we were right. Everything that I sized him up to be during those short fourteen days of fascination and infatuation were correct.
Ten years, three children and a dog later, he’s still everything.
Thank you…
…to my friend, Mandy of the Pearl Maple blog. I knew that I wanted to collage my entire background, but I had never done that before so I was nervous about starting. Mandy specializes in collage so I asked her about her process. Fortunately, her process of laying pieces down is the same as mine. Then she reminded me that the principles of design are the same for collage as they are for the other styles. It should be obvious, but something we can forget when we’re trying something new and intimidating.
…also to my mentor (unknown to her), Ali Edwards. You can see Ali’s influence in the rectangular black box that goes around the pictures and journaling, as well as in the gatherings of text with organic rub-on’s that are in the top left and bottom right corners.
Products:
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up
Patterned Paper: Rhonna Fahrer, Creative Imaginations, Cosmo Cricket
Stickers: Creative Imaginations, Creative Memories (alpha’s)
Rub-On’s: My Mind’s Eye, Art Warehouse
Transperancy: Hambly
Ink, Stamp: Stampin’ Up
Acrylic Paint: Grumbacher
Font: Helvetica
