My Friend Carmen - Layout

I was sitting at the craft table the other night and wanted to make a layout. I grabbed an envelope of pictures and was flipping through them when I came across a picture that Carmen took of me and her right before we left for the airport for my flight home when I was visiting with her in Houston. I started laughing when I looked at the picture because literally before going out the door we realized we didn't get any pictures of us together during my stay *okie looks at the picture now and thinks what a kick azz tan she had*.

Supplies Used:
Basic Grey Ambrosia Collection
Pebbles - polka dot paper
Petaloo Flowers
Prima bling flourish
Janome Sew Mini
3/8" Grosgrain Ribbon
Micorsoft Word
Stampin Up butterfly punch
Martha Stewart butterfly punch
Cat Eye Chalk Ink
Pagemaps book for layout idea

Since the layout was to only have one picture I wanted the picture to be focal but still have embellishment on the page. I chose to use a large flower insetad of several smaller ones and then accent with the flourishes and a few punched butterflies. I added another smaller one right below the journaling for some added interest in the lower right hand corner.




  

Since I wanted the journaling to be key on the layout I kept the title small and chose to print it along with the jouranling instead of using my Cricut and cutting out letters. I was able to print directly on the polka dot paper by measuring the area for the title and journaling and then set margins in Microsoft word to match. I first printed on plain paper and then took my polka dot paper and added some re-positionable adhesive to the back and laid the polka dot paper on top of the plain paper so I could get the printing where I wanted it. If you would like to see how I do this method you can watch a video HERE.

I took a picture of the layout with my phone and sent it to Carmen. She texted me back and asked if I was trying to make her cry. I guess she got all mushy about the journaling *okie rolls her eyes*, and then she asked if I made her a layout as well! I told her I didn't because I didn't know what she would want to say! I always find it difficult to scrapbook for others because I never know what they might like to say on their layouts. Of course Carmen can always copy the layout if she chooses, but she ain't gettin mine!