Minding Liam – Beverley Warwick

Minding Liam – Beverley Warwick

Ingredients:

Bazzill cardstock – 2 x kraft and dotted swiss blissful

3 bugs in a rug paper – home grown (the dotted side)

Letters for title cut from cosmo cricket girl friday paper

Pink paislee alpha stickers

Buttons

Thread

Photos – 1 5×7 and 2 6×4

Method:

1. Matt your 5×7 photo with the dotted paper (It does seem a shame to use the back of such a neat paper but if you are careful, it is possible to save a whole line of houses for use in another layout or card!) Ink and distress the edges.
2. Leave the other photos 6 inches wide but trim from the top or bottom until they measure 3 inches tall. Matt these photos beside each other on a strip of kraft cardstock.
3. Take a piece of dotted paper 27.5cm x 7cm. Draw a fancy bracket edge on one long side and cut out. Cut the same shape from the swiss cardstock. Layer, ink, distress and curl edges.
4. Cut another strip of dotted paper 3cm x 27.5. (This goes at the top of the smaller photos to give the impression of one solid piece of dotted paper behind the photos)
5. Cut a piece of swiss cardstock to measure 27cm x 21 cm, tear off the bottom edge at a slight angle. Matt your large photo onto this at the top.
6. Cut a journalling block out of kraft cardstock again using a fancy bracket shape. Ink the edges of this so it will stand out against the same kraft coloured background.
7. Using a piece of kraft coloured bazzill as your base, layer all the pieces together. Begin with the dotted paper pieces, then add the large photo with the swiss cardstock layer. Then the smaller photos and finally slip your journalling block slightly under the main photo.
8. Add a sprinkling of buttons, a title and some journalling. The letters for ‘Liam’ in my title have been cut from the cosmo cricket paper and then matted on the swiss cardstock.
9. As a final touch add some stitching. I have stitched a border by first punching evenly spaced holes with my paper piercer then stitching with 6 strands of embroidery thread. The swirls were hand drawn first in pencil, then, when I was happy with placement, with brown pen. I then punched holes and stitched with two strands of cotton.