"Forever" by Helena Johansson

Hi! Today I have a layout to inspire you with. This page was made as a present for my sister and her husband, the photo is of their wedding day in 2011. They look so beautiful, so of course I had to make something special for them.

I have used papers from GCD Studios and Donna's Natural Beauty collection: Twiggy B, Flying Free A and Teal Burlap B and layered them in this order. For the background I needed something romantic and used Want2Scraps and Donna's new 8x10 stencil - bricks - and made a pattern here and there across the page. I just love these larger stencils - perfect for layouts! I then used Mix'd Media Inx, Pewter and Chiffon, and  and rubbed it onto the bricks and then let the ink fade out.

Here's a close-up of the bricks. I used texture paste to really get that "brick feeling".

The title "forever" is GCD Studios and Donna's chipboard alpha, from the Fun and Funky collection.

I cut a couple of birds from the Natural Beauty 12x12 pad image sheet.

The white (and one green), fabric flowers with pearls I made using Spellbinders Rose Creation dies. I have a little tutorial further down on how I made these.

Here's another look at the Rose Creation flower:

And here you see the green one, and another white:

Here is how I made the flowers, I call them "Stapled Flowers":

I have used: Spellbinders Rose Creation dies, small pieces of fabric and lace I had at home (the fabric is leftovers from our bedroom curtains and the lace with roses is from a table cloth I bought at the local dollar store), a stapler and some white pearls.

For the flowers on my layout I used the second largest die and cut flowers from the fabric and lace. They didn't cut all the way through, so had to cut here and there with my scissors.

I then layered two flowers (one fabric and one lace) and folded it. I then stapled the flower in the middle, close to the edge.

Here's what the flower looks like folded out and decorated with pearls:

I needed a green flower for my layout and misted one of the flowers with Smooch Spritz, color Green Olive, and then adhered the pearls.

Thank you for stopping by today!

Helena

Products used:

Paper

GCD Studios: Donna Salazar - Natural Beauty collection, Twiggy B

GCD Studios: Donna Salazar - Natural Beauty collection, Flying Free A

GCD Studios: Donna Salazar - Natural Beauty collcetion, Teal Burlap B

GCD Studios: Donna Salazar - Natural Beauty collection, 12x12 pad image sheet

Stencil

Want2scrap: Donna Salazar - Bricks 8x10

Die

Spellbinders: Donna Salazar - Rose Creation dies

Ink and color

Mix'd Media Inx - Pewter

Mix'd Media Inx - Chiffon

Smooch Spritz - Green Olive

Chipboard

GCD Studios: Donna Salazar - Fun and Funky collection chipboard alpha

Chipboard frame from Dusty Attic

Other

Texture Paste

Gesso

Flowers from Petaloo and Prima

Fabric and lace

Pearls

Resing pieces from Ingvild Bolme