How I create a layout by Jess

Happy Monday Ladies : )

Question:

Do you guys ever look at layout's and think.....how does that person create the way they do? I do alot.....

Sooooooo I thought I'd do a post on how I create and whats goes into my layout's.....they may look crazy and odd and well a bit messy....but I do try hard when I'm scrapping....honest : )

Before I do anything I choose a photo, I mostly scrap with one photo...don't know why just do.....

Then I decide on colours....I then go through my stash and choose papers in those colours aswell as some embellies.....

I dump it all on my scrappy desk....grab some cardstock.....which is mostly either white or kraft....and start creating : )

Here's the lo......

I always tend to cut a piece of patterned paper down a bit so it's a bit smaller than the cardstock.....then i can't just stick it on I HAVE to stitch it on...it's a compulsion.....I love using coloured cotton too!

Now the background was looking a wee bit busy soooooo I painted over it with some Gesso (this primes the paper so that when adding other mediums over the top of the gesso they don't absorb into the paper) at this point I splat paint, or mist, or do a mask on my page.....

On this page I used:

Tim Holtz Flourish mask

Dabbed over the top with a Wild Honey Distress Stain

I then patted over the mask with some paper tower to remove the excess stain....and Voila! A cool background!

After messing up the background a bit I then start layering papers....I tend to always do a rectangle or square with paper/corrugated card/ribbons/fabric etc going across it horizontally....

So I place them on my lo until it looks awesome....

Then it's embellishment time : )

On this lo I did a big cluster of flowers...



For the 2 Biggest flowers I used this AWESOME Tattered Floral Die

I cut a combination of Prima Reflections pp & brown wrapping paper with the die. I layered the wrapping paper for one flower. Then used the pp aswell as 4 Green Felt Hearts.......Which I stuck on a little square of paper as the petals to make a Flower shape...then layered the pp over.....

I finished of both flowers with a Websters Pages Yacht Club Button....

For the little layered scalloped edge paper flowers...I used a die on some more Prima Paper.....swiped over with the Wild Honey Stain.....then fixed with a glitter brad.

I also doodled on Scrapware Flourishes.....

With an Inkssential White Gel Pen

Then I use my Acrylic Paint Dabber in Snow Cap White

To alter a couple of these Acrylic Gold & Silver Cabachons

Okkkkkkkkay.....Ya still with me??

So Finally I grabbed a couple of these GORGEOUS Yellow Roses

And a White Gardenia (Which I brushed over with the Wild Honey Stain)

I Then Brushed over all the flowes with my Paint Dabber (Snow cap White)

Then I fiddle with all my pp's & embellishments until it looks right....then I stick it down!

Lastly I place my title on the page.....I LOVE to stich it on the page because it gives my page texture AND it keeps those sneaky alphas from coming off of the page!

And there you have it.........a Jess page : )

and before I have you, here is another felt shape that I have coloured, 

you may have noticed it on my layout a few days back

I used a White Felt Embossed Star

LIGHTLY dabbed on some Distress Stain

Then dab the stained side of the star with paper towel until excess stain is removed.....and there ya have it a funky coloured star : )

Love and Peace xox