Layout | Autumn at Biltmore
It’s always fun for this Florida girl to get a taste of fall, so you better believe I snapped photos like crazy when my mom and I took my daughter on an October trip to Biltmore House two years ago! Even though the trees were mostly still green, unmistakeable autumn touches were everywhere in the garden.
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Supplies Used:
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink:
Cat’s Life Press stamp - CLP644D
The background paper in this layout came from this gorgeous new Elizabeth Craft collection I bought recently called “Rusty Weathered”. These papers have a color palette that works beautifully for the fall and winter seasons for many themes. It’s rare that I use every single design in a collection, but I already have photos matched with almost all these papers to make layouts. I even have another layout planned using the second sheet of the paper design I used on this layout!
I really wanted to preserve most of the large leaf design as a featured element on my layout, so I laid out my main elements around it. (The block and photos actually ended up shifted a bit closer to the top than this when I finally adhered them down.)
The cream colored block was a bit flat and stark against the texture of the mixed media background. So I decided to do some mixed media of my own! First I took my Scattered Straw Distress Ink and used my Mini Ink Blending Tool to smudge it all around.
For the second layer, I used Dried Marigold and smudged it through my Bubbles layering stencil. The result mirrored part of the background paper design very well! I finished the block by inking the edges with the new Crackling Campfire Distress color, which matched almost perfectly the deepest orange/red tones of the patterned paper.
Almost all of the decorative elements are created with stamps. The piece for the date is handstamped with a Catslife Press stamp in Ground Espresso Distress. Then I trimmed the cardstock into a rectangle with an equal border all the way around the image. I measured in an equal distance from each corner on all the sides. I used those marks as guides for snipping the corners off to make the label shape. I inked the edges before adhering it down.
The “Not All Who Wander Are Lost” is stamped in Bundled Sage and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The banner for the names is stamped in Ground Espresso, and then hand cut. Both are stamped on the same Natural cardstock I used for the big mixed media block.
I chose gold letter stickers to give my “Autumn” title a warm sparkle. There’s something about a deep gold glitter that just evokes fall to me. But I didn’t stop there with the glitter. Next to the green leaves on the paper design there was a sketched outline of leaves. The leaf shapes were printed to look like glitter. I used my Nuvo Glitter Drops to turn them into real glitter! It only took a moment to do and was such an easy way to add extra detail to the layout! I just followed right along the lines, drawing with the glitter glue. I did this step after everything else was done, so that then the layout could be safely set aside to dry and there’d be no risk of smudging the Glitter Drops.
Have you tried this glitter glue trick with patterned paper before? How did it turn out?
