Live Beautifully Heritage Layout, with painted flowers

I am totally loving the versatility of the Live Beautifully collection, and anytime I get to head into my craftroom to create I am pulling out this paper.  Our company has challenged us to create heritage style layouts.  So I decided to use a photo of my grandmother and the women in her family.

Here is my layout.

I distressed the mat and the papers used for this layout to give them that aged look.  I had some alphabet stickers left over from the Welcome Home Wreath kit, so decided to use those for my title.  My grandmother's maiden name was Young, and so I thought that was fitting for my title.  My grandmother is on the bottom, along side her twin sister.  My Great Grandmother is directly above her.

I've been asked how I created my flowers since they have a water color appearance.  I've shared a video that my daughter helped me with(it's my first technique shared video, so I'm sorry for the quality).

Thanks for stopping by and I hope I was able to teach you a new technique.

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Creative Scrapbooker Magazine Blog - Guest Designer

Hey all!  I'm so excited to be sharing this with you, today I'm the featured guest designer over at Creative Scrapbooker Magazine Blog.

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Live Beautifully Creations

I just can't get enough of this gorgeous paper collection.  The colors and patterns are very on trend, and there is just so much you can create with them.  There are 16 beautifully designed papers in this collection.

For my second layout I used the word Dream and stamped it in 2nd generation all over my base pages.  I used the gold embossed dots, pink shimmer trim, the pink watercolor paper to create the bottom portion of the page.  The bold flower print is the mats for the photos, and then I added the black and white striped paper for some pop!  The flowers were created the using the same technique as my previous layout, but added some shimmer with the Shimmer Brush. To finish off the layout I added gold sequins and the zipstrips with the gold embossed stripes.

For my third layout, I started with black base pages. I added the scripted pattern paper as my background.  I choose to pull the purple from the flower pattern as my accent color, and my closest color choice was Eggplant. My flowers are also stamped in the stamp color.  I added some compliments from You & Me and Good Life.  I colored in some sequins using purple and black markers to coordinate with the layout.

I still have 9 full sheets of pattern paper to create with out of my package, and lots of partial pieces. Make sure you come back to see what I create next using these stunning patterns.