A Little Donna

A while back Donna was talking about my style and she said she thought of paint because I use it alot — this was right after we completed our Lucky 13 circle journal, on canvas, where I did use alot of paint. At first I was like, “Me? Paint?…You must be thinking of Candice McLean!” But then I realized, I DO use paint a lot! LOL Sometimes the things we think about ourselves can be so off from reality or what others perceive. And yes, I guess I do like paint ;)

On the layout above I used some white paint to distress the edges of the page, then stamped on that with one of Donna's new stamps with Colorbox Chalk Ink in Charcoal (gives a nice soft look), and added faux stitching with a pen around the perimeter of the page. I've always liked drawing lines around my pages and elements but at Reflections this month in Kelly Goree's class I learned that all of her “stitching” for her Basic Grey samples is faux — I think it looks so real because she does very small lines as stitches. So I did my best impression of short little lines — I am impatient so some of them are kinda big ;)

Doilies are all over the place right now– in 5 out of 7 classes I took at Reflections and I've used them alot before. I had some for sale in my little booth at Reflections and they SOLD OUT! Anyways, Donna's paper is perfect for doilies so I folded on in the center to make it more oval instead of circle shaped. Then I layered that on top of a full doily of the same style.

I painted a rectangle in the center of the Nutmeg Nostalgia paper to create a frame. I watered down the paint in the bottle (it was getting to the end) and splattered it onto the page. I then sprayed a little spray ink over top of the paint for some distressing.

To take advantage of the wood grain of Donna's Banana Nut Loaf paper I wanted to create a shadowbox effect on the page. I tore the center out of a lighter paper and folded the torn edges towards me. Then backed that with the wood grain paper. I placed the doilies inside the “shadowbox”, spilling over the edges, and then added the photo to the center. I cut some flowers from Donna's English Roses paper and added them peeking out from the edges of the shadowbox. To add dimension, I used pop dots only on the undersides of the edge of the flowers closest to the photo.

I crumpled and extra piece of wood grain paper and adhered it across the bottom of the page. Then I trimmed some lace from one of the journal cards on the Attic Journal Cards paper and added that to one edge. I stitched buttons to either side of the strip with baker's twine and then added a “G” cut from Donna's Memory Mosaics Alphas paper and the milk bottle cap.

Hope you enjoyed this fun little journey with some Donna Salazar papers ;) And I hope you're inspired to share your creations with Donna's new line!! Be sure to go to Facebook and search “Donna Salazar Products” to join our Group where we are doing a giveaway for every 100 followers — next drawing should be happening soon and you could win some of Donna's brand new product line! You can also ask Donna questions and share your layouts on the Group.