27 - What a wonderful world

The case file this week is so happy and summery and the inspiration photo together with the evidence items made me want to do a cute little scene.From the evidence items I used: fence, trees, grass, flowers, clouds, and a long title. And from the testimony items: write about ‘a taste of a wonderful world’. I used mainly die-cuts to build the scene. I had so much fun making this layout.

The background was made by painting a simple watercolour landscape similar to the one in the inspiration photo. I used watercolour cardstock for this, and started with the sky, only doing the grassy hill after the sky was dry. When the grass was dry, I added some texture with dry-brushing, distressed the edges and stitched the paper to a sheet of white cardstock.

The fence was die-cut from mat board, and painted with Rock Candy Crackle Paint. When dry, I added some blue with Tumbled Glass Distress Stain.The flowers were die-cut from two patterned papers and two Core’dinations papers using the Tattered Flower Garland die, which gives a lot of flowers in different sizes. The Core’dinations ones were sanded and then I layered the flowers together. The leaves behind the flowers were die-cut from two different green patterned papers.
The journaling is on the back and is about how lucky my son is to have been born into such a great family, with a little bit of info about everyone on the photo. For him still just a small taste of something wonderful. TFL!

Close-ups and more info on my blog if you are interested: http://layersofink.blogspot.com/2012/07/what-wonderful-world-csi-27.html

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Comment by Kylie gW on August 2, 2012 at 6:54pm: Wonderful photo and gorgeous layout!

Comment by Eila Sandberg on July 16, 2012 at 3:34pm: My goodness A-K! thanks for the close-ups on your blog, absolutely AMAZING details! this is such a fantastic page, just look at the tree and the fence, wonderful texture! and those cute little clouds and the darling flowers. Very very very pretty my word!

Comment by Patrice on July 15, 2012 at 7:41pm: such a yummy page - I love that sun medallion!

Comment by Ellen Porter on July 12, 2012 at 7:14pm: What a very pretty scene, Anna-Karin! I will make a scene like this but not so heavy on technique or so beautiful.

Comment by Sylvia Mellander Ekman on July 12, 2012 at 4:34am: It's such a beautiful and loving LO! You must frame it and hang it on your wall. It's the kind of thing that makes your heart happy and warm and it should be placed to be seen all the time! Kramar!

Comment by Tina Walker on July 11, 2012 at 9:30pm: I know I've said this before, but how do you do it! Your layouts are always so unique and inspiring! Thank you for them!!! Hugs!

Comment by Jacynthe Loubier on July 8, 2012 at 8:22am: Absolutely beautiful, Anna-Karin. The scene looks like it is out of a story book. I LOVE the tree you created. The crackle paint give it so much texture and detail. Love the simple, yet perfect, circles to represent the foliage. The watercolour background, the fence, the flowers, the rosette sun...all wonderful. So you :) TFS.