Enhancing Your Layout!

Hi!

      Welcome back!  Today I've been putting into practice some of the techniques I've learned from various classes I've taken.   Making a layout is simple, but have you ever completed a layout and think something is missing when you were done.  I've done it several times lately.  The pages look OK but not GREAT.

      I love this picture taken by my niece Shae of her son and his cousins.  I wanted to showcase the fun the cousins were enjoying while playing with each other.
 

     So today, I decided to approach my layout a bit differently and instead of doing a quick layout and  attaching the photos, I laid it all out (like I usually do) and  took a picture of it.  After looking at it on the camera screen. I found it looked so boring that I knew I had to add some more dimension to the layout.

     Starting  again with the blank Kraft paper, I found red and green mists that complimented the colors in my layout and sprinkled  drops of the two mist colors over the paper.  Then using my circle stamps and stamped the paper  above and below where the photo would be. 

 
    The I added back my original layout and some enamel dots and created this fun layout of the nieces and nephews  playing together for the first time.

 What a difference adding the sprinkling of color, stamps and glittery enamel dots made to the layout. So much more dimension and depth. 

    My only problem now is that I need to do two more layouts using this wonderful photo. One for each of their albums and I usually don't like duplicating layouts, but I think this time I'll change the papers and do something similar for each of their individual albums.  The pages won't be identical, but they will be similar. 

Until we craft again.........

Aunt Dee

  Products:  Core'dinations Kraft paper,  Ditto red & green mist, Simple Stories, Gel-a-tins Circle Stamps, My Minds Eye enamel dots.