Creative Play with Ezz: August 2021

Monday 30 August 2021

“Adore you!” 49 and Market Single page layout

Hi there Creative Friends!

Izabella, my sister’s little granddaughter is such a precious little thing! She loves dressing up and have her picture taken. This is one of my favourite pictures of her with her lovely pink flower headband and those big brown eyes.

For this layout I used the natural tones of a combination of the Vintage Artistry Naturals and Essentials collections. I added color with elements of the Blush Rub-on Transfers, flowers, watercolor paint and Distress Ink. I wanted to capture the softness of the moment.

Adore You!

To create the background of the layout I used Vintage Artistry: Wallflower as the basis and framed it with Vintage Artistry Everyday: Garden Variety. I trimmed the Wallflower paper to 11,5” x 11,5”and distressed the edges. I adhered it to the Garden Variety paper. I splashed and painted with watercolor paint and distress ink and also added rub-on transfers to add more color and interest.

I chalked the edges of the background frame with distress ink to create more contrast and added more pink rub-on transfers.

There is a butterfly on the paper on the left side and I added green foliage, pink flowers and a butterfly also from the foliage pack as an embellishment collage.

I raised the photo with cardboard and placed it on layers of tabbed frames. The sentiments on the tabs are rub-on transfers, as well as the doily. The small hearts are taken from Wishing Bubbles and Baubles: Blush.

The stitching on the photo is a rub-on transfer from Roughly Sewn Rub-ons in Black. You can also see a little gauze peeping out, as another layer behind the photo.

The main embellishment cluster is created with flowers, foliage, ribbon, Guiney Fowl feathers Blush and Wishing Bubbles. And that is how a neutral layout turned into a very pink layout in the end!

Thank you so much for stopping by, I hope you found a little inspiration here!

Hugs

Ezz x

I used the following 49 and Market products:

Vintage Artistry: Wallflower

Vintage Artistry Natural Laser-cut elements

Vintage Artistry Rub-on Transfers: Blush and Sage

Wishing Bubbles and Baubles: Blush

Vintage Artistry Essentials: 3x4 File Frame

Vintage Artistry Essentials: Foliage

Flowers: Garden Petals: Ballet Slipper

Flower Mini-series: Punch

Roughly Sewn Rub-ons in Black

Other products used:

Gathered Twiggs Distress Ink

Metal photo fasteners

Watercolor paint

Guiney fowl feathers

Ribbon

Heart pins

Sunday 15 August 2021

“Friends” 49 and Market Single page layout

Hi there dear Creatives!

August is Woman’s Month here in South Africa with 9 August Woman’s Day, a public holiday. This is when we focus on strong inspirational woman, who we look up to, are inspired by and also just love because we are all woman! Yellow has always been a challenge for me, I do not why, so I decided to push my boundaries a bit with this layout and used the Vintage Artistry Butter collection.

I love this photo of my friends; they are very special to me and the yellow in the photograph convinced me to go big on the yellow! I hope you like it.

Friends

I used the Mellow and Sachet to create my background. I trimmed the Mellow paper to 11,5” x 11,5”and distressed. And punch a bit with a scalloped punch. To pick up on the swirls in the paper, I stenciled with gold paste and added Rub-on Transfers and color (Faded Jeans Distress Ink) to create depth. I tore the paper two thirds down horizontally and “inserted” the 2 lace strips, overlapping one another.

I normally do not use this photo size, but I wanted the frame from the laser cut sheet as an accent on top of the photograph. I raised it with foam tape and layer almost everything on the two laser cut sheets behind the photograph to create a layered look.

On the left side I created an embellishment collage with the clock, flowers and camera. Some elements are raised with foam-tape. The chip-board title fits perfectly below it all.

By now I was totally into the buttery warm yellow! On the righthand side I went wild with flowers and butterflies! I think I got quite carried away!

When I stood back and admired my handy work, I couldn’t believe I had such a thing about yellow! Although it is a very busy layout, I am happy with the outcome.