A cheery layout, and cards with left overs

April 28, 2012

A cheery layout, and cards with left overs

Today I get to share one of my favourite layouts - probably because it is of a beautiful memory captured between myself and my youngest son. The sun was really strong this morning and it really came out in the photos, so I wanted to use this as an accent, so when I saw the 'Fine and Sunny' range by Kaisercraft I knew it was exactly the right paper.

To create the layout I used my Helmar 450 Quick Dry, Helmar Acid free and Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots. I started out by creating a little bit of a background using some stamping with ink and paint. I also added some pastel in similar colours to the paper range to create a softer transition between the white paper and the coloured papers of the paper range. The next stage is where the Helmar Acid free stars on this layout, adhering the various layers of paper so well. I just love this glue for paper on paper adhesion as it is just so very strong. I used my Helmar 450 Quick Dry to adhere the scallop strips onto the photos and the photos to the layout. The bottom right photo is only adhered on three edges to allow the tag with journalling to be taken out to read. I couldn't resist adding some height to the layout so I added some Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots to the small cloud, the side tab and the flags. To adhere the thread, I always keep some Helmar 450 Quick dry in a very fine nozzle tube for this very application. I simply created a swirly line with the glue and then placed the thread on top. Here is a detail shot of part of the layout.