Watergirl's Artistic World: Wonderland Nostalgia

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Wonderland Nostalgia

My close friend and CTMH consultant, Jolene, has a monthly scrapbooking workshop where we create two layouts with her product that are NOT the Workshop of the Go layouts. Where our motto is: "It's good enough for the men I date." and chocolate is an endangered species. I love it.

Last month we used the beautiful Wonderland kit from CTMH. Which is discontinued:( And we weren't able to use the Icing Overlays, because the company ran out before the launch of the new catalog:( However, with a snowflake stamp set and our Art Philosophy cartridge we were able to knock out some beautiful pages. The left page of the layout was CASED from the Autumn/Winter catalog and she created a companion layout to match. (I don't care that she copied it, I do the same thing. Love a resourceful woman). The title was supposed to be different, but I had this great silver/blue swirled and stitched title from Sticko that I've owned for years (8 to be exact). It had extra snowflakes that I scattered around to blend in with the rest of the layout. I'm pleased with how it turned out.

(The second layout Jolene created didn't fit my personal style, so I chopped it up into a few different ones)

A sepia tone with 74% opacity was applied to the photos to tone down the colors and blend with the papers. This is one of my favorite techniques to use with winter layouts. It really softens the look.

All these photos were from years past, because, well, winter seems to have skipped us this year. I'm not complaining, nor am I happy about it either. I love winter. So, this year has given me a chance to catch up with my layouts and use up my paper. In an earlier post I showed another Wonderland layout, and I I actually have a few more coming your way. When it's all said and done, I will have six layouts from one, yes one, paperpack. So excited to share, and so sick of Wonderland papers!