Technique

Father

I’m really excited to show you this layout as its my craziest and most grungy one up to date. I was able to use so many embellishments and materials on this layout. I used the sketch below for a challenge at Our Vintage Affair. The theme of the challenge was birds. I like my 3 blue birds because they fit this theme. The two birds on the cage remind me of my two kids and the bird flying on top is their father protecting them. Therefore what better title than Father. I used a picture of my husband with our 2 kids because Fathers was the theme at the challenge blog Scrap for Help. Although this is the first time participating in one of their challenges, I’m very impressed with this blog. Not only are the founders doing it for the love of Scrapbooking but they are also raising money for charity. I don’t think there is a better way to do it or a better cause. The main challenge of this blog and it must be in every layout is to use recycled material on your creation. I’m very proud of the amount of recycled embellishments I used.

I rummaged for scraps all over my house and used them here on my layout. I used a piece of cardboard and a piece of burlap as backgrounds. Then I sprayed them with Tattered Angels mists as well as, the whole page.

Then I found old broken necklaces and charms, coins, a button and a bottle cap. I also used a lot of old scrapbooking metal embellishments that were just sitting at the bottom of my box.

I used Turquoise stickles on the birds.

And crackle accents on the frame, the photo and the background to give it a vintage-grungy look.

Finally I really like the feather accent that I added. Not only does it follow the bird theme, but it’s also a soft accent to the grungy/metal look of this layout. It acts as an antagonist.