The One with the Balloon Hat Layout


Thursday, September 1, 2011

I lied - I do have one layout I can share!
I recently joined Studio Calico and can't wait until my first kit arrives! In the meantime, I decided to participate in the weekly challenge which was to create a layout using a rainbow of colors: red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. That sounds right up my alley! So here's what I made:
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BALLOON HAT
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Journaling says: I've been married to Chris for almost 5 years now and this was the first time he ever tied balloons in front of me. He really can! He made Fox a hat which we put on him and you can tell he was very unsure about it... :)

Tips and tricks: This all started when I remembered doing tessellations in art class. I like to use a lot of patterned paper bits on my layouts so this technique was perfect! I created a hexagon, triangle, and square in Adobe Illustrator, printed them out, cut them out, traced them onto cardboard, and cut them out. Turns out the square was exactly 1" which was so serendipitous because I have a 1" square punch! Talk about a timesaver! I traced about 10 hexagons and 100 triangles onto a rainbow of papers, cut them out, and punched another 100 or so squares from the same papers. Then, based on this pattern:
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I pieced together the background. Then I found a font I liked (Cursivestandard) for the title, printed it out, and traced it onto the background in the empty space. I went over the title with liquid glue then carefully placed red baker's twine on top. Then it was just a matter of embellishing with matching colored buttons, fabric brads, and stickers, adding a trio of photos with pop dots, and writing the journaling! All-in-all it took about 5 hours. I really need to learn to scrap faster...

Supplies: Cardstock, patterned paper, buttons, fabric brads, stickers (flower, hearts, stars, tab), pen, adhesive: American Crafts; Baker's twine: The Twinery; Paper cutter, scissors: Fiskars

21 comments

  1. Wow, that is amazing! I think it would have taken me about twice as long. You are truly an artist!

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  2. wow, that was a lot of love you put into this, it turned out fantastic :)

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  3. Wow, how long did that take you? What an amazing page!

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  4. love the title!
    super super cute

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  5. that is the most creative and gorgeous layout, Paige!!!!
    I'm such a fan of yours!

    Fox is such a cutie!

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  6. Amazing...I love all the colors and such sweet pictures!

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  7. holy wow, paige! you've outdone yourself with this one!

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  8. Wow!!! This is incredible, Paige!!! What a gorgeous mix of color and pattern and shape - outstanding!

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  9. GASP!! I cannot believe you 1. cut those little pieces for your tessellation and 2. made a word from that twine! WOWZA!!!! You are SUPER talented:)

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  10. WOW Paige!!! This is absolutely awesome!!! The textile teacher in me just LOVE the quilt feeling and the colors - AMAZING!!!

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  11. Wow! This is fantastic!! I really like the balance of this layout! NICE JOB!

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  12. Amazing! Your layouts always inspire me to think outside the box.

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  13. Paige we are doing a feature on Practical Scrappers of using hexagons on layouts. I would love to include this in that feature if you'd let me :) The date is Sept. 14th. Shoot me an email if you are willing... practicalscrappers@gmail.com

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  14. dang it paige. That layout is amazing!

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  15. I don't know how you do it over and over again- coming up with such COOL and unique page designs. This is awesome, Paige@

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  16. Oooo! LOVE this! So many bright, happy colors! So playful, and such a perfect design for those adorable pics!

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  17. This is SERIOUSLY one of my all time favorite pages - not only of yours, but of ALL!! I LOVE this, Paige! Wow!!

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