Suz loved this expression she heard recently as it summed up exactly how she feels about being a mum - so much work and stuff goes into every day that sometimes they can be long and hard, but the years, they just fly by. Surely it was only yesterday that these two were both in nappies?
Suz created this layout based on a sketch by Cathy Zielske in her Design Your Life workshop at Big Picture, and realised that the four little boxes in the sketch would work perfectly being 'bracketed' by the scrumptious Serendipity Sassafras Lass rubons. And there's actually no patterned paper at all in this layout - plain Aussie kraft cardstock has been inked and embellished with the co-ordinating Sassafras Lass Flower Flair rubons to create a gorgeous design. To tie the three elements together Suz also used a few of the rubons on the edge of her photo, as well as arranging the title directly on the photo. I think we mentioned recently that she has rediscovered these delightful Heidi Swapp Apple Pie iron-on alphas, which she has mingled with with the new BasicGrey micro chip chocolate letters to make this evocative title.
Brackets are extremely versatile and come in an array of sizes and different materials such as chipboard, felt, paper (to be hand cut), stickers, rubons and stamps. For this layout Mel has worked with the Sassafras Lass Doodled Brackets and stamped them around the outer edge of the cardstock to create a black border. There are seven bracket stamps in the pack, all different with straight and curved edges.
Sassafras Lass also have Doodled arrows, borders, stars and alphabet stamps to match in with the brackets perfectly. Simply place the acrylic stamp on a mounting block and stamp away.
Nicole cut the large bracket border from a sheet of Teresa Collins "Journal it" paper and used it to balance the black areas on the right hand side of her page.
She echoed the bracket shape on the left by adding a bracket-shaped journal block also by Teresa Collins and finished by attaching a trimmed down card pocket to hold her son's precious favourite football cards.
By using the bracket edges on her main elements, Nic was able to add energy and interest to her page.
When Caz shoots catalog photos for a local lighting company she is often "helped out" by her 2 cats. They "help" with the packaging, "help" in the light box and even "help" up the ladder. If she chooses to ignore this "help" then Lizzie bites her ankle until the "help" is recognized or at least played with. Caz has used some Tim Holtz grungeboard brackets to emphasize the clever play on words in her title.
Truth be told, Steph started out wanting to do a mini bracket book with the new Heidi Swapp Dream Dining Room Papers. But things didn't quite turn out the way she would like, so she decided on a layout using two of the books pages for a frame of the photo of her Mum. She was so happy with the result, the shape of the bracket pages gives the layout an interesting dimension, and combined with the new Heidi Swapp Ghost Frames and Paper makes a beautiful surrounding accompaniment.
The other feature of this layout is the lush black velvet flower, this too being a Heidi Swapp new release. Steph has teamed the drama of black with the palest of blues to lift the weight of this embellishment and bring a touch of femininity to this colour palette.
