"Desiderata"

I have bittersweet feelings towards this layout. I began it earlier in the year, but as I began gluing down flowers and applying rub-ons, I realised I was desperately unhappy with it. I'd written a couple of lines from the poem Desiderata onto a plain paper flourish, then changed my mind about where I'd glued it down... Hindsight's a bitch.

The layout sat unfinished for a long time as I puzzled out how to fix it, but finally this I have had a kind of epiphany. I removed the flourish and added the row of photos up the top to try and balance out the page. The paper flourish was originally plain coloured, but I traced it on to patterned paper and cut it so that part of it encased the photos at the top, and the rest wrapped around the photo at the bottom. (Again, not keen on where I placed it in the end but meh....)

Finally I scuffed up the surface of the paper (I had ripped it accidently when removing the flourish, so that became my starting point), tore and scuffed the edges, added a couple of stitches and sewed on a metal rosette that once belonged to a belt.

Linking at Our Creative Space :)


Paper: Fancy Pants "Roadshow"
Embellished with Fancy Pants "Roadshow" card & rub-ons, Prima flowers, vintage lace, metal rosette from a broken belt, hand stitching. Paper flourish and journalling strips cut created from "My Minds Eye' paper.
Alpha: Cosmo Cricket 'Tiny Type'