Hello, friends, it’s Tania here! For those of you who may have never seen this spelling and may be curious, it’s pronounced ‘tahn-ya’. Nice of my parents to make things difficult for me my whole life, eh? Rarely do people get it right on the first try, so I thought I’d help you out.
Roday, I want to share with a fun layout and sketch that I designed to help get your own creative juices flowing. My layout features the "That’s My Boy" collection pieces, but this sketch doesn’t discriminate.
First of all, I must say that I am a color girl through and through. Absolutely love color. So, the colors and patterns in this collection are totally my jam. Being that I am mama to two girls and no boys, I have to say that I adore that the patterns are generic enough that they are quite versatile for using on projects wherein the subject isn’t a boy. Bonus!
Before starting the design of my layout, I dripped two different colors of mist onto my background by unscrewing the spray nozzle and allowing the mist to drip off the end of the uptake tubing and onto my paper. It’s a great technique when you want to control exactly where the mist falls. As that was drying, I simply took a triangle punch to nearly every patterned paper in the That’s My Boy collection. It really is a preferential thing on whether you use the papers in the Collection Kit or papers torn from the 6x6 Paper Pad. Since papers from both are double-sided the only difference will be the size of the pattern printed on the papers. The papers in the Paper Pads are generally just a miniature version of the patterns in the Collection Kit. For my layout, I used the 6x6 Paper Pad. Oh, and if you don’t have a triangle punch, you could easily create either an equilateral or isosceles triangle in your electric die-cutting software and cut multiples rather quickly.
Once you have your triangles, run your adhesive down the entire length of the layout and start sticking them down. It is much easier and much quicker to run a strip or two of adhesive down the length of the space you’re trying to fill than try to adhere the triangles one by one. I also recommend you start in the middle and work out toward the edges to help the overhang you’ll have at either end look a bit more natural.
Now you’re ready to add a photo or two and go to town on the embellishing, which is my absolute favorite part! Add layers to the triangles with border strips from the Elements Sticker Sheet and the Alphabet Sticker Sheet. Then, add clusters of stars, brads and gems so they form a visual triangle on your layout. Next you’re ready for a title created using stickers from the Alphabet Sticker Sheet or cut using your electric die-cutting machine. Lastly, handprint or type some journaling to add and you have yourself a finished layout!
Are you ready to try your hand at this sketch? Be sure to show me by uploading a photo of your finished project to the Echo Park Facebook Page HERE! I’ll love seeing it there!
