Wednesday, August 29, 2012

The Beach

Another challenge over at SNC was from Emily.  She challenged us to do a layout based on "The Paperbag Princess".  So, we had to use kraft cardstock somewhere on the layout, distress something, have some bling and use multiple photos.

As I was going through some of my older stuff, I found this title block kind of thing.  Now, this was the style long ago, not so much now.  However, I thought I'd still try to use it and make it work.  I'm glad that I'm finding ways to use up this older stuff!

I really don't like using kraft cardstock as my background.  I really find it drowns out my photos.  So, decided to use it underneath my photos and I misted it to help take away from it.  I don't know what it is with me, but I don't like using kraft cardstock as my base unless it really suits the photos.  Yet, others love it and it works for them.  Hmmm...


I did quite a bit of distressing on this layout - misting, lots of inking on the title block, I tore the kraft cardstock and the journal block and I sanded the edges of my photos.


To add some bling, I added a border of Stickles around the journalling.  




2 comments:

Beth Hallgren said...

Cute Dana! Doesn't it feel great when you use something old from your stash, especially one of those items you nearly pull out for donation/trash but just can't let go of :)

Ashley Horton said...

Love this Dana!! The title you found is so cute and perfect for these photos!! I find I have the same problem with Kraft. I love it when other people use it, but if I try to use it as a full background for my page, I'm never happy with the end result.