When in London, we took pictures of the statues of Queen Elizabeth II's parents, George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The little I knew about them was gleaned from the Netflix series the Crown and the movie The King's Speech, so I checked them out on Wikipedia and was surprised to find out that they actually married for love, something that is probably overlooked in all the hoopla surrounding George's older brother Edward's abdication so he could marry the love of his life! Using lyrics from a couple of Bryan Adams' songs, I played off the fact that he asked her to marry him and she refused twice because she was "afraid never, never again to be free to think, speak and act as I feel I really ought to." His determination won the day and they lived quite happily together for 29 years until his death in 1952.
I tucked a journaling card behind the green cardstock.
Recipe:
Jennifer's Hand & My One & Only stamp sets
Floral papers (KI Memories)
Petal & Sweet Leaf cardstock
Petal, Sweet Leaf & Crystal Blue ink
Petal marker
Fuchsia marker (Zig)
DE Framed Fun chipboard
Illustrated Faith Family die-cuts (Bella Blvd)
#Life journaling card
Cricut Artiste cartridge: speech bubbles
Pattern: Sketches in Thyme #350
It's the 2nd Wednesday of the month, so that means another Variety Challenge for Splitcoast Stampers.Please visit SCS (using the link below) if you would like to play along.
I have so many wonderful stamps, and I haven't been using them as much since I got my Cricut, so this week's challenge is to pull out those stamps and use them creatively. I would love to see a stampede of stamping techniques on your layouts. Show me what you can do with your stamps!
For my layout, I chose to use masking (the title), creating a background
(the photo mat), and curving a stamp to create a different shape (the
border for the circle).
For those who are wondering what I mean by masking, here's a quick tutorial from Splitcoast Stampers on how to do this: Reverse Masking Tutorial. It's so easy to combine multiple images to make one sentiment or
design. I created my title using words from two different stamps. There are several other ways you can mask, and here's a fun video produced by the CTMH team that demonstrates a few of those methods.
