Histoires de Pages - Let’s talk layouts / Issue #53 - SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2013 - (Page 92)

A background page in 9 steps Ink, paper, that's all! You do not have a lot of material and you want to create a custom background? Stop! Look no further! We will show you that with a few pieces of paper and some ink colors it is quite possible to create a unique background page! by Catherine Labeeu To best tone your background to your photo, select your snapshot before you start. Once you have chosen it, decide on the dominant color of your design and choose inks that blend with the chosen shades. Also prepare some paper bands in different patterns, a brush, some gesso and... off you go! Supplies: papers (Basic Grey, BoBunny, Fancy Pants, Prima Marketing, Rose Moka, 7gypsies), alphabet (Basic Grey), stickers (Basic Grey, Crate Paper, Sassafras Lass), stamps (L'Encre & L'Image, Tim Holtz), masking tape (Tim Holtz), mask (The Crafter's Workshop), Distress ink (Ranger), doilies What you need : * * * * * * * * * * Thin paper scraps Doilies text and texture stamps Distress inks Gesso or white acrylic paint Liquid glue, transparent once dried Mask Masking tape Letter stickers Various embellishments Is it a layout or a sunset? Whether on a red copper background in Montreal or in a blue-tinged copper sky in Marseille - color develops in large bright stripes, which bleed right across into the edges of the frame. Who would guess that on this picture of the sunset over the bay of Marseille, there lies, at its base, the most famous castle in the world, i.e. If Castle, the former royal prison, famous since Alexander Dumas chose to imprison the Count of Monte Christo there, and which today detains only tourists... Photo credit: Juliette Paoli 92 HISTOIRES DE PAGES - SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2013

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