King Parrots by Manda

Hi everyone, Manda here today and I am sharing a layout I made based on this month's sketch challenge.

I have recently started hanging seed bells in our yard to attract native birds and last week I was lucky enough to catch two beautiful King Parrots in the act of nibbling at one. I really love how the photo came out so I decided it would be great as a large feature photo like the one used in the sketch. 

Because of the bright colours of the birds I wanted to use a neutral paper as a base and add some some pops of colour so the photo was the main focus. I started with a pop of red Color Shine and then I used the Star Confetti Mask to add some subtle patterns around two corners of the photo and added the Star Confetti to give it some dimension.

I also added a piece of the Everyday Speech Bubbles which was a fun touch.

To balance out the speech bubble I added a piece of the Layered Arrows and of course the layout wouldn't be complete without some flair and I added a piece from my favourite - Mustard 29 Flair.

So now you have seen how I have used the sketch head over to THIS POST to play along and share your take. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a crafty day!

Supplies:
Star Confetti Mask

Star Confetti
Everyday Speech Bubbles
Layered Arrows
Mustard 29 Flair.

So Serious

Hey everyone, Manda here and I am so excited to be doing my first post as part of the Um Wow Design Team. My two favourite embellishments to use are chipboard and flair so I am in heaven playing with goodies from the store. 

For this layout I started by making my background using some yellow mist and then the line of chevrons mask. I wanted a fairly crisp outline on the chevron shapes so I used a Prima chalk edge inker to colour the masks, these are my ink of choice for edging and I find they work great on masks too because of the small size and pointed end. 

One of the reasons I love chipboard so much is because the ease of altering it to suit your project, in this case my colour scheme of yellow and grey looked good with the natural chipboard but the sepia photo got a bit lost so I again used my chalk inker to colour the Large Love This Polaroid Frame and also the pieces I used on the page including the Heart Confetti and Everyday Speech Bubbles.

I wanted to repeat the mask pattern so I used some of the chevrons from the Arrow Title Mash and finished the page with a flair from the Mustard 29 Flair collection. To finish off page I mounted it on black cardstock and used a fine black marker to add a hand drawn border around the page and the mounted picture. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and happy crafting! 

Manda x

Supplies:
- Line of Chevrons Mask
- Large Love This Polaroid Frame
- Heart Confetti
- Everyday Speech Bubbles
- Arrow Title Mash
- Mustard 29 Flair