Histoires de Pages - Let’s talk layouts / Issue #53 - SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2013 - (Page 80)

A background page in 6 steps How to transform your patterned papers Creating your own background paper starting from a white page has become common. How about starting from patterned paper with designs pretty much present, that you are going to transform by making it softer? With this technique, which is pretty easy to make use of, you will be able to have fun while using rubberstamps, masks and inks. by Ingvild Bolme In creating our own backgrounds we are more in control of our layout(s). Sometimes we buy somewhat ornate prints, and when about to use them, we would like them to be a little more subdued. By working on them again with gesso, inks, stamps and masks, we can create a very different, incredibly romantic atmosphere, for this photo of two sparky little girls. The technique is also suitable for men's pages, depending both on the colors and drawings which are used and the finishes (here it is the fairy tale aspect which is underlined). Dancing Butterfly What you need : * * * * * * * * * * A patterned paper Stamps with several designs Stamps with texts Different colors of inks A foam sponge Gesso or white paint Various masks Spray inks Masking tape A thin black pen 80 HISTOIRES DE PAGES - SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2013 Supplies: papers (Prima), stamps (Prima, 7gypsies), sticker alphabets (Prima), masks (Prima), inks (Chalk Edgers, Glimmer Mist), gesso, rub-ons (Basic Grey), flowers (Prima), embellishments (Shabby Chic Resin and Metal Treasures, Hambly), masking tape, black pen But who is this delightful dancer introducing the subject of this merry layout to the spectator? Born in Stockholm in 1804, she led a life totally devoted to ballet dancing, and died, in 1884, in Marseille, where she had retired herself. She enchanted the world of balletlovers, in the Romantic period: she was Marie Taglioni, the daughter of an Italian choreographer and a Swedish ballerina. She spent more time on the tips of her toes than on the balls of her feet since she created dancing on point. Her costume gave birth to the tutu that all classic dancers still wear. Alas, Taglioni's art is lost to us. None of the choreographies created for her have survived, even the Sylph, in which she triumphed in an aerial technique, which was her trademark.

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Histoires de Pages - Let’s talk layouts / Issue #53 - SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2013

Cover
Editor's note
CONTENTS
Rendez-vous
Letters from our readers
Let's play around with color - Tempted by transparency
Are you a beginner? This page is especially for you!
Readers' Idea Gallery - Summer activities - Combo
Tale of a sketch - Put the photo in the spotlight
Letter from our translators
Ideas
One page, three options
Matching decorations
Make-over session - for Christelle's and Emilie's layouts
U.S. tags - They are a must!
A mishmash of words
Honors go to photography
Graphic and stylish - Sew in your layouts
A mini-album with labels - to be downloaded on page 99
Techniques
A few little graphic rules - to adopt without delay !
Let's tame color
A background in 6 steps - Transform your patterned papers
Butterflies
Are you a tea - or a coffee person?
A background in 9 steps - Ink, paper, that's all!
A background in 9 steps - Flowers and colors!
A maxi-album - A floris't shop
Discoveries
We have tried out for you
Marseille - Provence 2013
Meet the artists - Delphine, Carole and Laetitia
It's on trend - Marine anchors
Scraptherapy - How about talking scraptherapy?
Rendez-vous on the blogosphere

Histoires de Pages - Let’s talk layouts / Issue #53 - SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2013