As someone below stated, this is absolutely stunning. Christina is beautiful, and this layout works so well with her photo. I just keep thinking over and over, "Wow!"
Absolutely stunning!!!! You are brilliant in the way you can turn the simplest item into a work of art. As for the picture...WOW!!! She is truly lovely and I love how you altered the colour of the pic. Well done on another fantastic LO!!
I love this and her picture is so pretty. She's a very pretty young lady too. Love her hair! Would she care to make a donation to me? Mine is no longer thick like that. I love what you did to the photo (I read your description to find out how you did it).
WOW, Peggy, this is so beautiful. Great picture, LO and lyrics. Love all the different techniques you used. I always have trouble to scrap a large picture. Outstanding job.
Excellent job creating a stunning layout without spending a fortune! Your daughter is stunningly beautiful, by the way! I love everything about this layout - especially the "words of wisdom." Well done! Into my faves!
wow!!! gorgeous picture & no I can't believe she's only 6!!! beautiful lo & thanks for all the info in the description. I may have to try some of this. into my favs.
This is so stunning! I like that you let the photo be the main focus of the page.. and what a fantastic photo! I really want to learn how to alter photos like that! What software did you use, cause I'm thinking of what I want to purchase..
Peggy - another gorgeous creation!! By the way, I love your use of "stuff" on your pages. I, too, have been working hard to use "scraps" whenever possible, thus not spending nearly as much on "supplies" as I used to. Keep the beautiful pages coming! And I just love to see how your children are growing up in just the few months we have become friends...!
Hi Peggy, I love this! Really beautiful! And I love too your description of how you put this amazing lo together; it sounds as if you used "everyting but the kitchen sink"! A great encouragement, for it shows that simple everyday things can be used for scrapping. Love, Ann P.S. Our computer has given up the ghost so am typing this at our local library; but it means I can't access photos for a lo - very frustrating! We had a great time in USA.
This layout is SPECTACULAR!!! I can really tell how much time and love you put into it. All the way from the computer work on the photo to the altering on the paper bag embellies.... I'm in love ;)
PEggy....I'm sitting here just staring at this gorgeous layout! I LOVE what you've done with the photo editing! The title lettering is so perfect with the layout....and the quote from the song....just WOW...straight to my faves!
This is my youngest daughter Christina ... can you believe she's only 6 years old????
This LO was inspired by a challenge giving on another site, Scrapping the Music (here's the link: http://www.scrappingthemusic.blogspot.com/). The challenge was to make a LO based on the lyrics of the song "Forever Young" by Rod Stewart. I used the part (which is my journaling):
May you grow up to be proud, dignified and true and do onto others as you'd have done to you
These last sentence is the rule we try to live by in our family, I can't count the times I've used this line... so it was an easy choice and perfect challenge for me.
I'll also be entering this in the "scrap that large photo" challenge hosted by peenut 23, as I really love how this LO turned out.
I had a lot of fun making this LO, and used a lot of techniques us newbies can easily do without too many supplies.
I started out by altering the picture to black and white, than adding the colour red, and finally upping the temperature, which is what gives the picture this magical old-looking glow. The original picture is lovely, but IRL, this altered picture is just stunning!!
I made the flowers painting a brown paper bag (in which they sell bread here), it has a nice light crumbled feel to it, first with gesso, then with green acrylic paint. I used a fork to make the circular marks, which aren't really visible on the picture, but they are IRL. I painted some circles brown this same way, added a netted ribbon, a button, and stitched them to the paper. The transparant flowers I made by using a piece of plastic (this is a plastic cover of a cheap photo-frame), I used a permanent marker to outline the flowers and add the dots, cut them out and curved the petals by holding them above a candle. I fixed them to the page by stitching on a button.
The title was made in Word, printed and cut out. The journaling was inked in several colours, the edges were distressed with scissors, then glued and stitched to the page.
Finally I inked the edges of the background paper brown to give it a more finished look.
This description probably doesn't mean anything to experienced scrappers, but I added it for all the people like me who are new to scrapping, and like me, have no clue as to how others make all these wonderful creations they themselves think of as "simple"... and to show you don't always need expensive stuff.
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