Cliff Jumpers

I love large photos! It's a great way to create a two page layout when you only have a couple of photos.  In this case, I only had five photos to use but it looked too squished with five 4x6 photos on a single page layout and when I tried to stretch it to two pages it looked a little sparse.  So I took my favourite of the five and enlarged it to 8x12. Now it looks great as a two page layout!

I had these old Basic Grey letters in my stash that I knew would be perfect for this layout but when I pulled them out they we a clashing shade of bright pink that looked so wrong on the layout.  I was disappointed!  I searched the rest of my stash for something better but I kept thinking 'Why couldn't those Pink ones work?!'.  I was frustrated.  So I did as I normally do, left the room to grab a drink and hang with the hubby for a bit and when I came back, it dawned on me, why not change the colour of the pink ones to a colour that worked better!  Eureka!  I grabbed my sanding block and roughed them up and then applied a magenta ink over the tops of each letter and then applied a coat of glossy accents to seal it all in.  Now they were perfect!

Supplies: Patterned Paper: Basic Grey - Fort Lauderdale Collection; Cardstock: Bazzills; Alphabet Stickers: Basic Grey - Fort Lauderdale Die Cut Alphas and Old Basic Grey Chipboard Alphas; Embellishments: Basic Grey - Fort Lauderdale Die Cuts and Chipboard Shapes and My Minds Eye - Brads; Inks: ColorBox Chalk Ink; Tools: Fiskars Squeeze Large Circle Punch.