Skeleton Leaves...

I created this page for a special lady I know who teaches scrapbooking.  Every year we go on a scrapbook weekend in North Yorkshire and we were tasked this time to create a challenge for each other.  As both of us are big fans of multi media pages and all thing messy I came up with a scrap by numbers page.   

 I found some skeletonised leaves on a walk and thought it would be great to incorporate these into a page.  I've used gesso and then added colour with inktense crayons and watercolour pencils.

 I've added scraps of torn book paper too.

 and some stitching,

 and some doodled circles and backgound stamping

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A messy heritage page...

Well this is an unusual layout for me as it has a great deal of pink on it!  Being a Mum & step Mum of three boys I very rarely get to explore the more girly colours so I went the whole hog on this one!

My colour choices were inspired by the old photograph of me and my Mum, I had a pale pink babygrow on and my Mum wore a dark green tartan skirt - very 1970's!

I started this layout by spraying a piece of white card stock with some pink and green inks, then applied some acylic paint around the edges and dragged it in towards the centre with a credit card.

I then started to play around with the placement of my photo and decided that the layout needed a frame, so I cut the background down to 11" and sewed it onto a piece of Stampin' Up! text paper.

I love the Melissa Frances frame stamps, I've inked them up in black memento and created frames for the title and date and one in the top right corner to balance the layout.

I applied some goosebumps through a butterfly stencil before applying the acrylic paint.

I tried not to over embellish the layout as I wanted to see as much of the background as possible, so I finished my layout with some Maggie Holmes Crate Paper die cuts and some Studio Calico enamel dots.  Thanks for stopping by, have a fab day!