Guest Designer

Over on the Scrap Addicts Blog I am the last guest designer for this month. There has been a series of layouts posted this month based on the theme of large photos. My 'go to' photo size is the standard 6x4"but I also favour 3x4" for layouts with multiple photos. 
When I do use larger photos I like them to be at a stage in my scrapbook that shows a change in topic or location, almost like a new chapter.
I chose a very large photo 8 x 10 for this layout, with a large image like this all of the decorating can be lined up on one side but to make everything link up I like to overlap onto the photo.

I had the layout all planned in my mind but by the time I finished it I had taken it apart and then put together again three times! It was almost finished and i dropped glue onto the photo, so I had another photo printed and when I stuck it down the torch and arm had been cropped off the image. So third time lucky getting the photo right.
Playing the America theme I painted stripes onto my skyline wooden piece and painted the travel wood piece in blue. While that was drying I used a stencil and white paint to sponge some white stars onto the bottom left of the page. I then topped these with some punched stars.

I found this fabulous washi tape with the New York skyline, so that was definitely going on this page. I used it on the left side where I was going to place the wooden pieces and on the bottom right as an 'anchor' for that side of the layout.

The title was cut out using my cricut and added to the top left.

Then I finished by adding journalling to strips of paper and added those into the gap between the  title and decorating at the bottom.

 

Then that was it all finished.