... makes for a fun ride! What better way to showcase my memories than with My Mind's Eye Abbey Road Collection, more specifically the Whirly Bird Line.
This past May I had the privilege of teaching aboard an Alaskan Cruise and became fabulous friends in the short week long trip with one of my fellow teachers, Becky! She has such a fun personality and provided some amazing laughs on this whirlwind trip. I just knew I needed to do something special with this picture! :)
We were like 2 peas in a pod and had no qualms about getting goofy and decorating our bright pink hard hats for one of our classes. With the fun, bright colours in this photo I knew the colours in the Whirly Bird Line would be a PERFECT match and as you can see, the pinks, blues and greens worked fabulously!
I had fun layering the various chipboard die cut embellishments. I used a brown pad around most of the edges and in some cases, I used a Sakura Micron pen to do a bit of detailing.
I used a border punch on my blue photo matte to mimic the scalloped edge on the background die cut paper. Cut apart a pre-printed element like I did with the chipboard word strip in the photo above.
I also cut apart 2 different paper die cut embellishments to get my custom "girl friends" title here. Use your craft knife to cut around printed patterns on the beautiful papers if you think you will lose the details once you place your photo on it. I cut around the swirls and birds so I could just tuck the edges of the photo behind, adding even more dimension to your page.
Next time you are scrapbooking, try looking past the obvious to see how you can slightly alter a paper or embellishment to make it work perfectly for your own project... surely you will not be disappointed!
Happy Scrapping!
