23 - Grandma

Such a sweet case file this week! From the evidence items I used: clouds, flowers, something translucent. And from the testimony items: start your journaling with A is for…Such a fun inspiration image too, it inspired especially my background and the pink clouds.

This layout of my son and my mom is done on watercolour paper. The vines were first white embossed, then the clouds were stamped with Distress Inks and embossed with clear powder, to protect them from the next step. I inked up my Sizzix Big Shot cutting pad with Scattered Straw, Crushed Olive, Shabby Shutters and Peeled Paint Distress Ink, misted with water and with some Perfect Pearls mixed in water and then stamped the cutting pad on the layout. You can do this technique with acrylic blocks too, but it the cutting pad was the perfect size for my layout. Grasses were stamped at the bottom of the page.

The flowers were inked with Distress Markers onto the rubber, misted with Perfect Pearls and water and stamped on watercolour paper. The row of butterflies were white embossed on vellum and coloured at the back with a pink pencil. I also found a butterfly in my scraps which worked well with the colours. The journaling spot was stamped with Archival Jet Black ink.

Journaling: ‘G’ stands for ‘Grandma’. You are lucky to have such a wonderful grandmother, who loves you very much. Here you are together outside the house on her birthday, when you were about 6 months old.’ I wrote some more things at the back of the layout. TFL!

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Comment by Carolina Ghelfi on June 24, 2012 at 7:58pm: I adore this page... those vellum butterflies, the white stampped/embossed on the background, those sweet clouds and flowers and the entire process on how you put this page together. Very inspirational :) Thanks a lot for sharing it!

Comment by Patrice on June 21, 2012 at 9:21pm: Love the happy colors!

Comment by Paula Flávia Pagotto Simionato on June 17, 2012 at 7:47am: It´s a lovely page with nana.

Well 2 days or 10 days to wait to pic your baby on your arms is TOO much...:-).

The doctor said at that time: "Don´t worry, this wil be just the first preocupation about your son"...

Well she was right, we are always taking care, but now it´s because he is a very active boy. :-)

Comment by Ali Parris on June 17, 2012 at 3:01am: Just gorgeous! Thank you so much for sharing your fabulous techniques - this one looks amazing!! Can't wait to give it a go. You're pages are always so creative and inspirational A-K and this layout has got to be one of the best :0)

Comment by Milagros C Rivera on June 13, 2012 at 9:41pm: Lovely work and such a great shot of them together!

Comment by Shaunery on June 12, 2012 at 11:59am: I love your stamping!!!! And I loooove when you get messy and play, the things you create are inspiring and FABULOUS!! :D This is so beautiful!

Comment by Sylvia Mellander Ekman on June 12, 2012 at 5:38am: A-K! Underbart att du skriver hur du gör! Jag lär mig så mycket, och får så mycket ideer av dina LOer! Love that you describe how these fabulous pages are done. You inspire me so much to use my stamps and mists and stuff. I hate to tell ya but I think I'm often too lazy for stamps and inks. it gets messy. I need to clean them up and wait for them to dry and that slows down the creative process. Also I'm no good at waiting....:D Your LOs make me think I'd better get over this and start stamping. Inspirational work! Looove!

Comment by Kimberly Kett on June 10, 2012 at 10:31pm: Beautiful! I love how you used the ink and stamps!

Comment by Debbi Tehrani on June 10, 2012 at 10:26pm: Anna-Karin, this is so delicate and so lovely! What a precious photo of your mom and Anton. Your stamping work is exquisite, as always! Love the K&Co. butterfly. I always forget about those! The background is really beautiful. I so admire all the cool stuff you do with stamps!

Comment by Brit Sviggum on June 10, 2012 at 10:36am: Wow! This is lovely! What an amazing background. Like Eila said; love to read about the different techniques that you use. Really a stunning page!