Une Promenade Layout Tutorial

Hi again! It's Linda here, as 

your guest designer for the month of June, with a layout tutorial. This actually isn't the project I had planned for this week, but the 7 Dots Studio Nature Walk papers have so won my heart, that I really wanted to do a layout with them... and I had just the perfect two photos to team up with them. I'll show you what I mean as I go along.

I started with the

back side of the Nature Walk "Musical Blooms" that looks like stained boards... the boards of our walk way leading up to our Virginia condo.

I only used the first 1 1/2" into

the sheet and trimmed out the center to use another place on the layout. I wanted to get all I could from this fabulous paper.

I used lightweight chipboard

as my base with the "board" frame adhered down to it with 1/4" Scor Tape. I roughed up the edges with my Tim Holtz paper distresser and sponged on Walnut Stain distress ink. 

I loved the stains so much

on this sheet that I wanted more, so I pulled out my Crafter's Workshop Confetti stencil and put down some gesso.

Now the "Cloudy" sheet

with 1 1/4" trimmed from all edges and distressed. 

Here is my placement before

adhering it all down with Scor Tape and Scotch Foam Mounting Tape. I fussy cut butterflies, a blossom and a leaf cluster from the "Winged Vines" sheet. The chipboard pieces are from the Prima Cartographer.

With my Alterations Tattered

Florals die I cut three layers of each petal with "Winged Vines" and "Cotton". I inked the edges with Walnut Stain, scrunched them up in my hands and assembled the huge flower using glue. I added a Prima Time Traveler Say It In Crystals gem to the center. 

Now I cut my foliage

using Alterations Spring Greenery and some paper from my Core'dination's Kraft Core pad as well as my Tim Holtz Wallflower one.

I rubbed some Crushed

Olive and Bundled Sage distress ink onto my craft mat, misted with water, and drug my foliage through several times until I got the look I wanted, drying with my heat tool between each inking.

Then I sponged on Walnut

Stain and shaped the leaves with my long tweezers and my fingers.

This is my flower and

foliage placement. I tucked in some green Spanish moss and an old glittered timepiece charm that had a pink rhinestone which I replaced with an Idea-ology bauble. I stuck in an Idea-ology memo pin with a Prima wood butterfly. On my fussy cut butterfly, I glued on an Idea-ology pen nib with Glossy Accents. For a little more pizazz, I added a strip of the mirrored sheet that I cut with Alterations Frameworks Courtyard die.

I tucked in a bit of Film Strip 

ribbon to the left side and "nailed down" my board paper with nail heads from Prima's Junkyard Findings.

I hope there's something

here that will inspire you to try these gorgeous papers or any of the other product. I've had a ball putting it together, and now my husband and I have a keepsake to remember our time in Virginia.

Thanks for stopping by!

Here are links for the products used above: 

7 Dots Studio - Nature Walk - 12x12" paper - Musical Blooms	7 Dots Studio - Nature Walk - 12x12" paper - Cotton	7 Dots Studio - NatureWalk - 12x12" paper - Cloudy	7 Dots Studio - Nature Walk - 12x12 paper - Winged Vines
Scor Tape -1/4"wide x 27 yds long (double sided)	Scotch Foam Mounting Tape	Distress Ink Pad - Bundled Sage	Distress Ink Pad - Walnut Stain
Distress Ink Pad - Crushed Olive	TCW 6x6 Template - Confetti	Dina Wakley - White Gesso - 2 oz.	Prima Cartographer 12x12 Paper - Chipboard Self-Adhesive Pieces
Tim Holtz Alterations - Decorative Strip - Spring Greenery	Tim Holtz Alterations - Frameworks Die - Courtyard	Idea-ology Tim Holtz Mirrored Sheets	Ranger Heat It Craft Tool