Saturday 17 July 2010

Bella Italia

This layout brought out my messiest side. I am a messy person at the best of times, but put me in the same room as pale cream cardstock and a black ink pad and we are asking for trouble. I knew which photos I wanted to use as soon as I saw the prompt. We went to Lake Maggiore in Italy last year and have dozens of pictures of the islands in the middle and views across the lake. Then I remembered a rubber stamp that I got as part of a kit last year. And some inner messy part of me thought it would be a good idea to use that to make a background rather than paper. Big mistake. Very big mistake. Cue fingerprints and smudges and 'I'm just going to have to start this all over again' moments. I wanted to include the border from a pad of paper that I bought while I was out there as I love the design on the bottom. It just looks so 'Italian'. {and it hides a big fingerprint}

So today is bright and sunny and perfect for taking those pictures I was so disappointed with earlier on this week. Tree against blue sky with fluffy clouds....

Blurry backgrounds....

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7 comments:

Abi said...

lovely photos Debs and beautiful LO

scrappyjacky said...

Love the photos. At least you didn't drop a pot of bright pink paint on the carpet...which was me earlier this week!!

Cheri said...

Your photos are great Debs! The one of the sky is so bright it almost looks fake!

Denise said...

Gorgeous gorgeous phots, Cheri is right, that sky looks almost unreal.The layout is great -I love the black long stemmed flower you've stamped? I think-on the bottom of the layout.x

humel said...

We've all had craft disasters - I melted part of my living room carpet with a heat gun once! - and however much mess you made, I bet it isn't as bad as the state of my coffee table today after The Girl decided to stamp end of term cards for everyone in her class.....

And anyway, the layout turned out gorgeously so it was all worth it xx

Amy said...

Deb you really make me laugh :-)
Your photos are fabulous and the page looks really good - even if there are some stray fingerprints lurking!

Maria Ontiveros said...

I love that page Deb! What a great job you did - it's one of my favorites of yours ever! I did a panoramic l/o today and want to try the one you did, too, but haven't gotten 'round to it yet.
And lovely pictures, too!
Rinda