Easy I thought.
I lift pages quite alot, but they are always already chosen for me, and often a sketch has been made up already to make it even easier to lift.
So I started searching through the blog to choose a page.
This one by Stephanie caught my eye...
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I then looked through my photos to see what I could use. I found a photo of my daughter that I love, but it was a portrait shot rather than landscape as used on Stephanies page.
The first thing I did was to print out her page, so I had it to hand.
With my portrait photo ready, I then turned the print out 90 degrees to the left.
I sketched out the layout in rough at the new orientation to check it would look ok.
At this stage I realised I would also have to flip the page horizontally to make the photo work.
Then to help myself some more, I created a sketch using the drawing part of Open Office.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFh2oPdMlY7meSvNe4DkAMRIYqA_oru72NHQLSr4mJjeHxXWOpP-wa2CrW9sed5aEemFX4GKrtALFYo5sq0tNhBUGhyUJb5jhXrhADw3In-lNjNDzjMCnltmiaJXzYUpsEwwvTcsrUb74/s320/SPS+Sketch+1+step+4.jpg)
Now I had the bare bones, I could set to work.
Papermaze had sent me the lovely new Prima Flirty Secret papers to work with. I then realised that the colours are quite similar to those in Stephanies layout, and I wondered if that had helped attract me to it.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5gNnwGX_N9zJwSadYMOuon9BAyysKY7JFG8mjO-vREnGx4wjzOpZKsQMs-S_gUF60zImLY9ieLEi-C-ZIcWAY-A2MlhPfrCHDnWs5hnnfHKGVeH7_bJRR2iBCq0eChI29r0R2vkrhzAU/s320/Step01.jpg)
I trimmed 1cm off two edges of the blue sheet, and stuck it to the green one to leave a 5mm border all around the edge.
(I actually removed a large area from the middle of the green sheet to reduce wastage and make my supplies go as far as possible- something I do with as many layers as I can)
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As before I removed the middle of the first patterned paper layer to use it as another layer higher up.
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I added the circle from the original page too.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWH97ltfDDGKufAi_SguWjBqYuNd0pw7lqFeeyvxHZiyHKy9d6luYtfO_URag9KfBiG-gWPiy5aI5R0Zl1IZ94FYP7u7pcnFgt5AW3iCkGJ5_PHauNc0EX4lB-6bMsKN366nNOIws1RP8/s320/Step04.jpg)
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To make them, I simply freehand cut some slightly curvy pieces from green cardstock.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5SNptABDkG8Z6phFt1nrrhSCLOuowgX-9rcUBmLQStfNCDcEA7oSsn4Fwy_BUM0BjuHDuJAl3lbrjBLHAjP2WYsRzDFs1KbXaxlyx0rvCmw4zayBhG04ypcZJvob1PpGtu02YB3eYcfU/s320/2009_06_15_0006.jpg)
Prima Essentials Flowers
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfIJjQjhP6k0oxlzrtqJ9f1-Usti32NMOwcOLUvJhkugd9QJoPieLpi5eo1WEhnEvbDxYxFidbWqnVwPctI6faj7XKORc6MfBFxcHEmEBV63r3G-9QBfOE77bSOQ4NiRXZAJ4bfBYTc1U/s320/Step07.jpg)
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(photo shows before I removed the backing to stick down!)
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As you can see, some of the design I stuck to quite closely- like the layers; others I changed to fit my page- the swirls and the orientation; and others I just took the idea and expanded and changed it- like the flowers.
A lifted page can be as similar or as different as you like from the original.
Sometimes the end result will seem nothing like the one you used to lift from- but the ideas will be there.
Most of all- have fun with it!
And here is my finished page.
A Big Thankyou to Stephanie for such a fab layout that inspired me to lift it.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOHeEubFDKYO0oge9Gg9w3v3N0rzqhoslOsBCYuPYY7EWkZzoDsdrriJYedTIU2yGh8L0bhG1WlQliNePsNaiMC8MR6_QAWUJFXvM6gRHlXwr6X8FZhxf2Pk54TLhhzBwGSc6V3ionN-w/s400/TotallyUtterlyYou.jpg)
3 comments:
OH wow angie this is so so awesome i just love your work hugs and happy scrapping xx
Such pretty papers, love what you've created with them :)
I love to see your work all the time and now this time your post are also really nice. All the paper work was quite good.
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