Hi everyone, Maggi here, I am so loving that we are featuring G45 this week and that our January kit was full of Tropical Travelogue from G45! Here are a couple more layouts I did with Tropical Travelogue.
Here I am - "Enjoy the Moments that Make You Smile" and yes I was enjoying myself!! I went with a vintage style on this layout employing a sepia toned photo with an oval fade frame applied to give it that old look. I used lots of layers that I distressed and inked with Distress Gathered Twigs and Vintage Photo. The title is a Dusty Attic piece that I have painted with gold Smooch paint, it really is gold although it looks orange in this photo. The 2 bird images are from the Tropical Travelogue Botanica paper, I just love them!! I think the net and shells adds the perfect touch to this tropical layout, they were included in the January KOM!! I really love the unusual things that Alda always adds to the kits!
The largest flower is handmade using the Alterationgs Tattered Floral die, I have a tutorial for it here. The other flowers ar some older Prima flowers from my stash. The two black swirls are printed on a transparency, then I cut them out and added to my layout. The butterfly came from LisaG, I simply added some black diamond Stickles.
Here's another layout, again using Tropical Travelogue. I lived in Florida for 14 years and of course these G45 papers really remind me of my time there. I took this picture many years ago while I was taking a nature photography course at Blowing Rocks Nature Preserve. I thought the colors in the stump and surrounding flowers went great with these papers. And Laura is hosting a challenge to make your own flowers so I did this as inspiration for her challenge.
I used Spellbinders Sunflower 2 die to make the sunflowers and misted them with yellow daisy Glimmer Mist. The centers are micro beads and because I only have silver microbeads I had to dye them with black alcohol ink, that was kind of interesting!!
In addition to Tropical Travelogue papers, I used Bo Bunny Back to Basics Clover Dot for the base paper and cut the black swirls with a Sizzix die from some very old black patterned paper from All My Memories. The leaves are fussy cut from Tropical Travelogue Rainforest. I just have a hard time with peach colors so I used Distress ink Scattered Straw on the G45 Hibiscus paper to turn the peach more orange, Distress inks are great for those kind of problems!! I water distressed the inner edge of the frame that has been punch with Martha's Stewart's wildflower punches and also water distressed the peach dotted layer.
Now I want to share with you an older layout that I did of my Dad using G45's A Proper Gentleman, this is one of my favorites. I fussy cut the old car image and the postcards behind my Dad's photo. He is standing in front of his Dad's car that he had recently wrecked (oops!!) The journal says:"This man grew up to serve proudly his country in the US Army. His service began during WW II where he went to the European theater. He spent 28 years traveling the globe, sometimes with his family and sometimes not. He served in South Korea, Nepal, and in Vietnam twice.
This man married a beautiful woman and together they had three children who are so grateful that their parents have such an enduring love for each other. They dote on their children and have given them the most important gift of all, unconditional love.
This man is my father and I am very proud to call him my Dad."
And one last layout to share with you today that I did using Romantique papers. The flowers are a Prima vine and some individual Primas added in too. I have a great story about this layout, I showed it to my Dad and asked him if he remembered when this picture was taken. Well he very nonchalantly says, "Well it must have been after we were married because your Mother let me put my hand on her butt." OMG, I almost died laughing!! My Dad was 88 I believe at the time. They will both be 90 soon and they're working on their 69th year of marriage. My journal says:
"Lifelong Love - Mom and Dad have been married sixty-seven years now, and happily, they are doing well for their senior citizen status.
I love this picture of them taken early in their married life. Their smiles are saying to each other, “I am crazy about you.” I was very blessed to grow up in a warm and nurturing home by loving parents that set an example for us to follow all the days of our lives."
Thanks for letting me share some of my G45 layouts with you. You can find all of these collections in the Flying Unicorn store.