8x8 Nautical Themed Layout

Hi Everyone and welcome to my new followers.Thanks for all your get well wishes and lovely comments on my card last week, truly appreciated, especially when I am so far behind visiting your blogs. Today for my DT post at Cheery Lynn Designs I am sharing with you an 8x8 Scrapbook Layout using a photograph of my Dad in the early days of his career in the Merchant Navy.

I started off by tearing out a section from an old map and adding some Distress Ink on to it to age it further and mounted it on to Cardstock which had been torn and distressed at the edges with my Distress tool.

I cut out my Ships Helm and added highlights with a Gold Pro marker.

Next I cut out my Anchor and highlighted the chain. 

You will see in this photograph I layered it up twice for a shadow effect, cutting the die cut in half gave me the expansion I needed for this effect.

My frame was cut out and highlighted with some Gilding Wax, my Ships Helm Die was once again accented at the side of this frame.

I trimmed the photograph of my Dad and added a White Border to help make the White on his Cap and Shirt pop forward. I don't yet have the Word Die Dad, so I paper pieced from my words Daughter and Birthday to get the word Dad.

I now trimmed a lighter shade of Blue Cardstock to 7.5 inches square and placed my Deutschland Border around the perimeter, once cut I Distressed the edges and mounted on to White Cardstock of the same size to highlight the beauty of this die.

Finally layering all my Layout onto an 8x8 piece of Dark Blue Cardstock. I added the Fishtail Banners which were trimmed down and curled at the edges adding a little star in the centre.

I hope this Scrapbook layout has inspired you to get creative. 

Now some exciting news for all the Cheery Lynn Design fans, we have a current DT call which you can check out HERE  for all the details if you fancy becoming part of a fabulous team.

Thanks for stopping by today and have a wonderful weekend,

Julie x

Shop at Cheery Lynn for: 

• B355 Daughter
• B231 Birthday
• DL278 Fishtail Banners
• B385 Ships Helm
• B394 Ships Anchor
• FRM140 Fiona's Magic Mirror

Time to Create.

Hello all my fellow bloggers. I have been patiently waiting on my copy of Tim Holtz new Book which finally arrived enabling me to play at the Compendium of Curiosities Challenge 3 run by Linda Ledbetter here. Each fortnight a page in the book is chosen to play along with a technique. I unfortunately missed the first challenge waiting on my book, but I am excited to share my entry for the second challenge. Info for the current challenge is on Page 56 of Tim’s new book.

First of all I decided what colours to use in my Distress products - which are all listed at the bottom of my post and chose a few stamps and dies to compliment my Size 8 tag. I stamped my chandelier style stamp with Gesso and then started to layer on some Distress Stain. Once I was happy with this I started to stamp on my accent stamps with coordinating colours and more Distress. I don’t have a full photo of my tag before layering up as I got carried away and realised as I was just about finished it. So I will now just show some photo’s around my tag, as you will have to get Tim’s book to find out the How To technique applied with the Distress Glitter.

Anyway, pop on over to the challenge blog and you will see lots of fabulous inspiration from the Design Team.

Thanks to my husband Chris for picking up the Distress Glitter so well in the photographs. Hope you are all managing to get some time to create this week. 

Julie x

I wish to enter this in - Compendium of Curiosities 3-Challenge 2

Products Used –

Size 8 Tag, Distress Inks Victorian Velvet, Walnut Stain, Rusty Hinge, Antique Linen and Peeled Paint. Distress Stains Victorian Velvet, Antique Linen and Rusty Hinge. Distress Glitter Victorian Velvet, Rusty Hinge. Cheery Lynn DL278 Fishtail Banners. Sizzix sewing room and weathered clock Bigz and Sizzix Tattered Florals Strip. Indigo Blu Hexagon and crackle stamps, Magnolia Script Stamp. Stampendous Chandelier flourish. Gesso. Craft Stash.