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Do What You Love

Today's layout is based on a sketch from Christy's Beautiful Life 30 Days of Sketches Day 16.  I used the Dear Lizzy She's Magic collection to showcase photos of my daughter dancing.

The challenge with these photos is the horrible orange stage lighting.  I knew that I had to find some papers to try to take the focus off the orange lighting and bring the focus onto my daughter.  I used a variety of patterned papers from the collection in pink, yellow, white, and blue.  I used a reddish-orange chevron paper as the background paper.  I created five banner pieces of various sizes from the patterned papers.  I cut a piece of the lined notebook paper and backed it in gold glitter paper.  I placed this on top of the banners.  The two photos were placed on a piece of gold glitter paper and backed with two other papers from the collection.  I adhered the photos on top of the lined paper.  The word DANCE was cut from gold glitter paper and placed above the photo.  


To embellish the layout, I layered two different prima flowers and attached them using a floral brad.  I cut some foliage from white cardstock and placed this underneath the flowers.  I popped up vellum butterflies near the embellishment clusters and added gold glittered hearts. 
 

I cut the words Do What You Love and popped this up in the lower right corner of the layout.  I added a phrase sticker to the upper left corner of the layout and added a strip of gold glitter paper to the left of the layout.  I added my journaling to a tag and tucked this behind the photo block on the left side of the layout.


I was happy to find a collection that showcases the beautiful moments of my daughter on stage.  

Do What You Love
Supplies:
  • Dear Lizzy She's Magic Paper Collection and Project Pad
  • American Crafts Dear Lizzy Accent & Phrase Stickers
  • Momenta Casual Script with Icons Die Set
  • Jane Davenport You Are Unique Cutting Templates
  • Sizzix Thinlits Sophie Guilar Bold Flora
  • Prima Flowers
  • Deja Views Framed Brads - Cherry
  • American Crafts Maggie Holmes Sticker Book
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