Picture This Design Team Call!!!

Good morning, beauties!!!!  I wanted to blog today about one of my many sources of inspiration.  The ladies at Picture This! have posted a Design Team Call!  Click on the previous link to be taken to their DT Call blog.  My favorite part about this particular blog is that they just give you the guidelines and you create based off of your interpretation of the guidelines.  I have decided to give this DT Call a try as well.  Here is the entry I will be sending in for the Picture This Design Team Call:

 

 

The requirements for this LO were "1 photo + corners + splatter".  I'd had this picture of Kara and I sitting around for a little bit.  When I originally printed them, I printed two so that I could make a LO for each of us!  When I saw this "1 photo + corners + splatter" I knew I wanted to use this picture.  I chose some paper from the Scraps of Elegance "Lisa's Love Letters" kit and went to town!

 



Above you can see some of the splatter I used.  I went with black and white paint because I loved the already overall feel of classy and "timelessness" that came with the paper and I wanted to keep my additional background colors as simple as possible. 

Below you can see my take on "corners" for this challenge.  I used flowers to create a cluster in opposite corners of my page.  It kind of gave me a linear feel from corner to corner when I finished it!  :)

 

I used some teal/turquoise tags and labels from my stash to go with the background paper and also some papers from the kit make a few layers.  The paper inside the frame was leftover from scraps from a previous LO I had made with this kit.  I used some Lindy's Stamp Gang embossing powder in "Cleopatra's Copper" to add some color and give the resin frame a little more texture.  You can also see where some of my splatter got a little "out of the lines"!  :)

Below is a picture of some of the layering and texturing I did on this LO.  I had fussy cut the antique swirly paper in the background a looooonnnnnggggg (maybe last spring???) time ago and it had been sitting on my work desk since then.  I painted some crackle paint on it and hit it up with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Antique Linen to age it further.  I used some modeling creme that came in the SOE kit, along with the stencil included in the kit to make add some texture.  A few buttons and brads from my hoard and "voila!"....all done!  :)

 

Thanks for stopping by to look at my take on 1 photo, corners, and splatter today...but what are you waiting for????  Get out there and create your layout for this DT Call!!!

 

 

love,

mel