Adore Layout by Sue Smyth

Adore Layout 

By Sue Smyth 

Hi Bloggers 

Today I am sharing a gentle little layout using Butterfly Garden papers 

The soft blues work perfectly with a red or orange as a contrast.

But first I wanted to alter the paper, not much but just 

to add icing to the cake!

After randomly punching the edges,

the first step is to dry brush gesso over a stencil around the paper

and create 3 tears in the sides of the paper.

When dry spray over a turquoise and Denim blue spray ink. and dry off 

with a heat gun.

Curl the tears with your fingers to give a good shape. 

Flick over white, turquoise and black spray inks

for a random splatted look.

Next whip out that gesso brush and add some more, add it to the trinkets and flowers.

Gesso gives a flat white substance for any water based spray to 

soak into and colour.

To do my butterflies, I always like to glue them to scrap

cardstock first. Then fussy cut them. This gives the

wings a bit of strength. 

I have then carefully outlined the wings of the butterflies

and dipped them in fine black glitter.

To glam up the silver trim, first coat with gesso to lessen 

the brassy shine. I have then placed a drop of good 

gel glue in each and popped in a turquoise glass bead. 

One way to use up those seed beads!

When dry it looks nicely antique and great!

The over all effect is cool, with a shabby chic look.

Add a cluster of flowers. I have layered up my flowers

with trinkets and smaller blooms.

You might also notice I have cut a trinket in half and placed it 

either side of the photo, this gives a cohesive look and is 

one way to make embellishments go further.

Tuck glass beads and a generous bow from seam binding.

Take ordinary white binding and spritz with water, when damp

spray over the colour ink you like to match the layout.

This metal trinket is vamped up by adding gesso to the wings, then 

spray with a soft pale blue ink. 

Then apply a line of Dimensional magic to the centre

and apply black pearl seed beads, for a textured 

rich look.

Add a small title, you don't have to have a large title 

to have impact. Because there are words already

on the paper, it  dosn't need many more

and  this small metallic blue title stands out

superbly.

Megs Garden Materials

Megs Garden The Butterfly Collection.
Megs Garden Temptations in blue
Megs Garden Cherry Blossoms
Megs Garden Azalea's
Megs Garden Lace



Happy Crafting 

Sue Smyth