Here is a picture of the completed layout:
The first page leaves a LOT of room for either some pictures or journaling... I still haven't decided what I would do "if I could turn back time," so in designing the swap, I decided that I needed to have room to choose :-)The scallop on the left edge is actually made by taking the guard off of my corner rounder and punching along the edge of some desert sand cardstock... Simple :-)
The little glass dots were a TON of fun to make... I bought a bag (which I *think* amounted to a pound) of clear glass baubles from Pat Catans for something ridiculously cheap (around $6)... THEN, take a SMALL amount of the glass baubles and place them into a *disposable* cup with a few drops (you can always add more, but can't take away!) of Adirondak ink - I used the latte color for my purposes... Stir with a popscicle stick (or something else that is disposable), and let dry on wax paper. Wa-la REALLY cheap drops of color for the page!The flowers are all stamped in sorbet ink and mounted on dimensional elements - a retired floral design. I inked the DE in either sorbet (the larger one) or bamboo (the smaller ones) and edged all of them with desert sand ink
The right page:
Can I just tell you how much of a time I had with trying to get the title shaped the way that I wanted it?!?! I printed the words from the computer and eventually had the bright idea to print a bracket on its side, then use that as a guide to cut out the bottom to the shape that I wanted it to be... inked the edges with desert sand to try to hide any imperfections from having hand cut the shape. :-)
The flowers on the right mimicked the same design as the large flower on the left. The lower right-hand flower was layered with a sorbet and a desert sand flower (both then cut out and mounted on the DE)... Just the one layer just didn't seem like it did the job.
When it was all said and done, I was happy with the end results! Hope that you enjoyed the layouts!
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