You & Me

Mary-Ann barely here with you today to share a layout that took me four tries!  Yup, four.  Ever have one of those days when you have something in your mind but it just will not translate to paper the way you envision it?  Sometimes the results are even better anyway (now imagine me sticking my tongue out at my layout like a 3 yr old).  I created this layout by cutting the best watercolor heart out of one of my previous 3 pages.   My pink paper that you see to the side has remnants of one of the attempts.  See the gesso on the bottom?  You can also see some on my heart.   I totally smeared that page with my sleeve.  Although the whole layout was not salvaged, I managed to save some of it.  

I like dimension on my pages, you can see it all from this angle.  I actually sewed the smaller hearts right to the 12x12 page, then curled my sides up.  The strips of paper that you see are all from one sheet of the 6x6 Fancy Pants Be. Loved. paper pad.  (Which by the way are hard to keep in stock.)  They created just enough embellishment to match my flair buttons and punched hearts. 

Anyone notice the twine shaped as a heart?  I love these photos of my boys.  You can feel the love.  Towards each other, not me, obviously, I am the one capturing it all with a camera.  BTW, those gray dots that look like enamel dots, I created those using Tim's Distress Paint - Brushed Pewter.  Need to get another bottle of that, I am using it like I love it:o)

Here is proof of one of the mishap pages.  Why did I use brown?? Good question.  But I did like the effect of the smear, however, when I added all my other embellies, I needed to trash the brown, for obvious reasons.  That and my non-artistic husbands asked what I ripped up from that spot.  Not cool.  

The fine products I used on this and the other three layouts are listed below.  Head on over to the shop to get your hands on what you need to create your next Valentine.

Fancy Pants -Be Loved Large Tags	Fancy Pants - Be Loved Flair	Fancy Pants - Be Loved 6x6 Paper Pad	Wplus9 Design Studio - Clear Cut Stacker Dies - Hearts	Tim Holtz - Brushed Pewter Distress Paint
Faber Castell Gelatos - Red Colors	Faber Castell - Gelatos - Tropical	Dina Wakely - Media Gesso - White	Inksessentials - Mini Mister 3-Pack	Tim Holtz Water Brush - Broad Brush
Scotch Foam Mounting Tape	Mono Adhesive Tape Runner - Permanent