Wild Whisper - Smile at People

 Hi everyone!  

I'm up on the Wild Whisper Blog with a special layout that I did of my daughter and my youngest grandson!  Scrapbooking really brings back the memories!!

For this layout, I used two Wild Whisper paper collections:  "Sassy Since Birth" and Nicole Wright's "Fanciful Florals".

The photo below shows the first layer of my layout.  I always "eyeball" my pieces when I'm gluing them down, and as you can see, this time I was a little off and my mat is on the page crooked.  To fix that, I decided to tilt my photo when I added it to the page and that draws your eye away from my original error.

If you haven't seen the "Sassy Since Birth" collection, there is a hilarious sheet of snarky sayings included.  Of course it was on the backside of the bottom piece of paper in my layout, so in order to save some of the words to use as title pieces, I cut out the center of the bottom page.  Below, you can see the back side of my layout, with this piece cut out.

To frame the photo, I fussy cut some flowers from another piece (shown below) of the "Fanciful Florals" collection, and added them around the photo frame which was popped up on foam tape.

Below is a close up showing you the fussy cut flowers.

In order to keep the sketchy look of Nicole's flowers that I love, I chose to only partially colour them.  I also used light colours (except for the pink) to give them an airy feel.

I wanted to fill in the white spaces with some texture, and since I couldn't find Nichole's stencil in my stash (story of my life), I decided to mimic her round flowers with a very pale shade of blue. I drew them freehand with Copic B00. You can see them better in the picture below. For a little sparkle, I added "Talk Foodie to Me" sequins.

Copic markers that I used on this layout:

Large flowers: RV19, RV34, RV55

Leaves: G09, YG45

Blues: B000, B00

Yellow: Y13

That's it for me today! Treat yourself and go shopping in the Wild Whisper Store! Add my discount code (DTLINDA) in the coupon code box to receive an extra discount.

Happy creating!

Linda