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This is my lo for the ROUND ROBIN MAY Challenge. I scraplifted my Selfie Queens By: Kathylovestoscrap, which can be found here:
This is a picture of my son when he was tiny. He's headed to Wisconsin today for his photography job, so it was a "few years" ago.
I tried to stay true to the Kathy's original lo. I matted my background pp as she did. I didn't have a lacy floral cut out like Kathy used, so I decided to use a shaped background piece. I used one I had for a pattern, traced it onto the pp I wanted to use and then cut it a bit smaller to allow the alphabet block background to show...however, it still hid too much of the blocks to tell what they were, so I moved the shaped piece to the side until I liked how the page looked, then I trimmed off the extra edge. I'm not great at handcutting, so I hid my bad scissor work by adding some of the old Sticky Stitches around the edges of the shaped pp.
I framed my photo. I LOVED how Kathy's photo was matted and how it really set off the photo, so added a thin mat to my framed photo. I added little word strips under the picture as Kathy had done. Mine didn't stand out very well, so I added the little sticker stars.
I didn't like the way my lo was looking, because it seemed odd having everything over to the side and just "standing there" kinda lonely looking. So, I added a scalloped sticker edge. Now the colors didn't seem to mesh, so I found another sticker strip that seemed to tie the colors together a little better and added it over the first strip, which just allowed a little of the blue scallops to show. That was better, but now it seemed like I needed more of the blue AND the sticker borders were really old ones that didn't want to adhere very well, so I decided to go to more really old supplies and pulled out the large eyelets and added one to each scallop. Now, they needed a "purpose", so I wove the twine through them.
I really liked how Kathy did her title, but I couldn't find any alphas I had that were the right size and color to work on my lo, so I decided to use a journaling sticker and stamp the title. I had to cut off part of the sticker to make it fit and I still needed some journaling on the page, so I took the scrap of sticker and turned it so it would tuck under the title sticker and added the journaling. I realized I didn't have room for the date, so I took a piece of another journaling sticker and added it and stamped the date on it. I aded the "sweet" tag, just because I found that tag and really wanted to use it and this was the only place I could make it work. LOL
I added the little heart sticker, because I loved the heart on Kathy's lo and I wanted to incorporate flowers as Kathy had done, so I used the little flower sticker. Going with the idea that groups of 3 are always better, I added the little "boy" sticker to that grouping.
I outlined almost everything with a white pen and that seemed to bring everything together much better.
No products have been added to this project.
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