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9/12/2014

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I wanted to challenge myself to scrap with a large photo and this one of Bruno and Lulu was perfect.  They snuggle up to each other more now than they ever have, but it's still pretty rare to get a photo of these two together and both looking at the camera.  Jayden took this one a couple years ago and sent it to me for Valentine's Day.  Gah, I love these faces so much.  I'm totally biased, but they are the cutest.  
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For this background, I started by adding gesso to tone down the brown and create a more weathered look.  Then, I added some stencils and light modeling paste, which I colored lightly with gelatos and watercolors.  Lastly, I used a palette knife to add random splotches of acrylic paint.   
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Here's some closeups.  As always, there's lots of paper layers.  I inked just about everything in this layout with vintage photo Distress Ink.  I added several chipboard pieces from the BasicGrey Hey Girl/Boy collection.  I can't believe I debated on buying them when I found them on super clearance, because now I'll be bummed when I've used it all.  I also added a journaling card, some eyelets, and some stitching.  Overall, I used less embellishments than normal, because the background is really busy and the large photo encompasses so much of the page.  I wanted to keep the focus on the photo.    
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Of course, this is inspired by some challenges.  This time it's two Scrappy Friend's challenges.  The first being the Color Challenge featured below.  The other being the Tic Tac Toe Challenge where I used the top line: stencils, stitching and eyelets.  
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Rochelle
9/29/2014 11:23:53 am

wow… very nice job on the background!! Thanks for playing along with Scrappy Friends!

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heartstringsandlovelythings link
10/8/2014 02:27:13 am

Thanks for the fantastic inspiration!

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