The Lord Is My Song

Elizabeth bought a guitar in January.  The instruction CD wasn't as helpful as she had hoped, so she is getting lessons from a friend. She has learned a lot and enjoys playing.

This page is done mostly with paper and Embellishments from the March Scrap-Friendzy Spread Your Wings and Fly Kit.

I have created a challenge for the members of Scrap-Friendzy to alter chipboard/grungeboard/grungepaper for a layout, and here is my example layout with Elizabeth playing her new guitar on Easter day.

I used soft pastel colors for ScrapFIT Weekend Warm-Up #4.

I've altered the grungepaper birdcage by using the drunken Scotch technique.  I didn't have any clear Scotch glue, so I used Ranger Inkssentials Matte Accents instead.  Here are some samples of this technique done with other types of glue ~ they don't all work the same and some don't work all that well.  I've also opened up the birdcage and curled up the bars to let the bird escape.  After all, the bird needs to Spread its Wings and Fly.  I backed the cage with a contrasting paper and shaded one side of the bars with pumice stone distress ink.

For the bird, I painted the grungepaper chocolate, topped with crackle medium until tacky, but not dry, then painted again with manilla paint. As the top coat of paint dried, it cracked showing hints of the base coat.  To give added dimension, I inked around the edges of the wing and bird.

To create this layout I used:

Kit items

Bazzill Cardstock ~ Navajo

My Mind's Eye Lost and Found Market Street "Adore" Fly Away Paper

Rup-on Stars ~ Dasyd's Adorable

Tim Holtz Birdcage Die Cut ~ Grungepaper

Tim Holtz Bird Die Cut ~ Grungepaper

Tim Holtz Elegant Flourishes Die Cut ~ Back Glitter Sheet

Webster's Pages Bloomers Strip - Turquoise 

Add-ons

My Mind's Eye Lost and Found Market Street "Princess" Lovely Lady Paper

Ranger Stickles ~ Christmas Red, Midnight Black

Scrap of Black Card Stock for letters

My Mind's Eye Lost and Found Portobello Road "Family" Brocade Paper

Bling ~ from my stash

Ranger Distress Ink ~ Victorian Velvet, Worn Lipstick, Pumice Stone

Inkssentials Matte Accents

Ranger Alcohol Ink ~ Rust, Espresso

Delta Ceramcoat Painter's Helper Crackle

Making Memories Scrapbook Colors ~ Manilla, Chocolate

Bosskut Gazelle

Brody Font from the Internet

I drew inspiration from Amy's fabulous kit layout. Thanks Amy!

My apologies to grammar gurus out there.  I had a brain freeze moment and will be correcting the capitalization in the title before adding this layout to my book.  :-)

Thanks for stopping by.  I enjoy reading your comments!

~ Blessings ~