Emphasize

Dear all,

How have you been? Another month has passed, and here comes Autumn in Germany...

This month's going to be busy as my little one turns 2 on 26th September. Yeayyy.... I can't wait for the small party that I've planned for her. Well, I will have to do a lot of preparation yes but.... like scrappers say "Keep Calm and Scrap On".

Another new month, another new challenge from 123 Challenge Blog, here's the challenge board...

COLOUR = Khaki WORD = Emphasise TECHNIQUE = Hidden Journaling

And here's my layout

this time I did a lot, I really meant a lot of stamping. Started with an old stamp I barely knew I had it till the new one I got from wining a challenge recently. I thought it would be nice if I could use two papers to really stressed out the color. With the first paper (the paper is from DCWC), I did a lot of distressing and stamp out to bring out the green khaki color. I painted the paper more with black and olive green acrylic paint because at the end I didn't find distressing ink from Ranger was dark enough. 

Finally I added some rub-on lace to add a nice touch.

For the second paper I decided I wanna have brown khaki to match the first paper (it's from Kaisercraft). First, I decided where the photo would go, then I added some structure paste in some area I would like them to show. Did again lots of stamping to match the first paper. I stamped it with Color Box - Green with leaves motives.

For the journal I had it hidden (scrolled) next to the photo. It said "There is nothing more that I would like to emphasize than the love I have for my little beauty. She has such a sweet serenity about her."

To be honest, the word "Emphasise" was a very difficult one for me. I'm not really good with it. I was so 'desperate' (have to say) to find the best journaling for my layout, and finally Brenda Caldow was helping me out. She's a very nice lady. You could check out her blog here. She made a lot of amazing layouts.

Finally I added more flowers, some embelishments, sequins and all the small pieces I could find in my stash. And for the square check I used for the background, it is a plastic canvas I bought last time on my holiday back home in Indonesia. It's a plastic canvas for making a carpet to be honest (loved the experiment that worked well on my lo), that's why the size is bigger than the normal one for stitches.

Would like to join this layout for Scrap Africa with the Skecth no. 34 

Hope you enjoy my layout as much as I did... Thank you for stopping by my blog and please do come back again.

Hugs,

Merry