Hello,
Today I am up over at The Mad Scrapper Blog with this layout capturing memories from New Year's Eve 1999. We were at my sisters house with my parents who are in the photo's.
I have chosen this paper because I thought it looked a little tartan and I didn't want anything overly festive. A full list can be found at the bottom of the page.
I started by trimming the paper down, distressing the edges and then I decided to stitch using black floss and deep red metallic thread, then I mounted on to black swiss dot paper. I then decided to add some rub-ons from Prima which you can add foil, floss, glitter to I decided to add gold flake. Then I took the heart chipboard from Dusty Attic painting it with gold acrylic paint first. You can tell I had already decided where my photos were going.
I matted my photos on to some red then swiss dot paper and added them on top of the hearts slipping some spare bits of chipboard underneath for stability then I gathered flowers in similar colours to cluster around the photos.
I also added some rub-ons to the page as well as black and gold Nuvo drops.
The stamped sentiments are from a set from my stash, I also added some firework images because there were so many going off that night it would be rude not to!
You can just see here one of the Christmas rub-ons I used.
I had to add the 2000 flag and thankfully I had a nice number set to use. My Mum and Dad have both passed away now but I still love to use them on layouts. My dad would never be out without a tie and they would both dress up for a party.
Thanks for stopping by for one last time this year. Take plenty photos and get them printed out so you can make lovely layouts too. Janine is sure to have a paper collection to match your event so pop in or go to The Mad Scrapper and browse from your armchair.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Sue
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