Life Crafted with Diane

Hi everyone, Diane here with a really quick spread in my Life Crafted album.

I had created this black and white photo strip in Photoshop using a few really poor quality photos I took one night. Converting photos to black and white is an instant way to disguise poor quality! But because I now had neutral photos, it meant I could go any direction as far as a colour scheme.

I loved this peachy coloured floral paper and decided to embrace the kind of vintage, shabby style. I trimmed out the lace part of another paper, punched the edge with a border punch and stitched the two pieces together to add some texture. Then I adhered both pieces to my background.

I matted my photo with a scrap of a peach coloured paper and then used some craft foam to adhere it to my page for a bit of dimension.

I decided where my title was going to go and then ran my background card stock directly through my typewriter to add my journalling. The title was a little too bright so I added some gesso on top of the gold to tone it down a bit and add to the vintage feel of the page.

I created three points of interest by adding some chipboard pieces and some splatters of coral and called the whole thing done!

Here's a look at the process this layout took ...

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