Histoires de Pages - Let’s talk layouts / Issue #53 - SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2013 - (Page 94)

A background page in 9 steps Flowers and colors ! Creating your own background will allow you to ideally reflect the atmosphere of a photo. Today we suggest you match spray inks and homemade flowers for a vibrant layout! by Birgit Koopsen After creating this original and colorful background page, all you will need to do is stick on the labels, the photo, the title, and the matching embellishments, and possibly add a few lines of stitching to highlight the title. Flowers in vanitas paintings What you need : * * * * * * * * * * Two patterned papers - 1 neutral and one colored Circle punches in three sizes Four colors of spray ink One color of acrylic paint Black ink and a colored one Stamps: text and circles Pens: black and white Washi tape Sewing machine with black thread Letter stickers and various embellishments 94 HISTOIRES DE PAGES - SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2013 Supplies: papers (Prima, Basic Grey), spray inks (Ranger), acrylic paint (Americana), black ink (StazOn), alphabets (American Crafts, Jenni Bowlin, Sassafras), tag (7Gypsies), washi tape (CartUs), sticker (My Mind's Eye), wood shapes (Freckled Fawn), flowers (Prima), brads, date stamp This happy little girl who smiles at the camera and to whom we wish a life sown with the flowers that are surrounding her, is the center of a layout with a joyful, optimistic vision of life. Hence this frame of flowers... happy to be there! It has not always been the same for flowers, which appeared in the seventeenth century, first in Dutch painting, in still-life pictures with particular value: the vanitas genre. They were meant to show the transitory nature of human life through the fragility of flowers. They then symbolized the insignificance of human life compared with an expected eternal life... Hence those sumptuous bouquets of the Dutch Baroque seventeenth century, in which we can find, when we look for them, many insects, larvae and even eggs laid on leaves often spotted with rust or mildew... They foresee that soon those flowers which are so beautiful will disappear and we too will be dust just as they will...

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