Feb 21st Retreat Pages

The pages for the Feb 21st retreat are down a few post. But my friend Nancy also took pictures of them and sent them to me. She's nice like that!!! I will try and explain some of the things I did that may not be noticable, especially in a picture!

Simply Stated line from Dream Street.

page one. first off, be very careful how you cut your paper. since it is double sided, it can be tricky. The first thing you should do is cut the piece of paper called 'floral phrases' (flowers on one side and four 6x6 blocks of different looking white paper on back). save the one with flowers on it so you can cut 3 of the flowers out. (i know you love me for this). The other side of this sheet you can cut in half, making it 3x12 and this goes in middle of bboth of the pages, just the oppisite side with the flowers. The second thing you should do is cut the paper 'grapevine gossip' in half. cut the funky piece out, like you see in the layout. (i don't know what to call it!!!) the other half cut 6 1x12 pieces for the bottom of your page. i distressed these by inking and cruching, then laying back out. you have a 3.5x10.5 piece of black paper. cut 3 3.5x3.5 photo mats out of it. This should give you 3 photo mats, plus on i cut for you. you have a 12x1 piece of black paper, cut it in half. layer this on top of the flower paper in the middle of the layout. cut out remember this and i used pop dots to raise this. layer everything the way it looks. i added jewels to mine. (of course i did!) the metal frame--i took my chalk ink and swiped it with just to bring out the flowers. cool effect! i am also gonna add a 5x7 picture without a mat. tie ribbon around the metal frame and around remember this paper. and thats it!

Green layout.

Fresh line from Dream Street. Love these papers!

Bliss is your the base of your layout. to get the paper the way it is on my layout, you have to cut your paper very carefully!!! lol

cut the following pieces:

Carefree--cut off 1.5 inches so you have a 10.5x12 piece and a 1.5x12 piece. Now cut off a 1.5 inches of the length so you have a 10.5 by 10.5. cut this piece in half so you have two 5 1/4 x 10.5 pieces. lay aside. cut the 1.5x12 piece in half so you have two 3/4 x 12 pieces. lay all these pieces aside together. It could get confusing if they aren't together.

Renew-- A. cut this piece in half. lay one half asied. the other half cut 3/4 inch off the the bottom so it is 11 1/4 x 6. cut this in half so you have two 11 1/4 x 6 pieces.

B. now take the other 6x12 sheet and and cut off 2 inches length ways so you have a 2x12 sheet and a 4x12 sheet. set the 2x12 sheet aside. cut the 4x12 sheet in half lenght ways so you have two 2x12 pieces. keep all these pieces together too.

Invigorate-- (this ones easy!)cut off 2.5 inches so you have a 9.5x12 sheet of paper. cut this in half so you have two 6 x 9.5 pieces. lay one sheet aside. now cut the other 6x9.5 in half so you have two 3x9.5 sheets of paper. keep all these together too. (you knew i was gonna say that!)

now layer all the pieces as shown on the layout. DON'T ADHERE YET. I took my distresser (you know the heidi swapp pink round thing or the square making memories thing, or a razor blade or scissors edge, just don't cut yourself!) and distressed three edges of each piece of the papers in the middle of the page. and then rolled them alittle, cause i like that. you don't have to do this step. it takes a long time, but it looks soooooo cool. then just layer all paper and adhere. Now the girls in the class didn't like this next step, and you don't have to do it either. just use some paper flowers. but i made the flowers. just cut out by hand some and slapped them down. then i cut out some circles and distressed the edges and rolled them and layered different sizes together. and the remember this sheet is the remember this from the simply stated line cut out with a piece of carefree slapped in the middle of a square off of the simply stated line.

and your done.

I sure hope this made sense. please email if it didn't. it is kind of confusing. like me. or not. plus i'm tired. i had baby duty last night. and it was only the second time i had night duty. but i am kinda old for this. lol

again thanks for buying our kits. and if you know of anyone who would like one, let me know, we have a few left.