Jacobi Creations

Love, love, love this layout, it is just so pretty and was super enjoyable to create.  It is hard to see, but it started out with the use of a beautiful swirly stencil which I then coloured using Lindy's Magicals.  You can see some of it here in this image below. I always struggle with that when you create a beautiful background and it gets covered up.  I have done that on another picture frame and I am now struggling to finish it because I love the background so much.  No mind.  Anyway, my colours were yellow, orange and purple.  Purple is such a funny colour as the interpretations of it change from crimson through to lilac.  I delved into my bag of beautiful lace and found this totes gorgeous lace with its hanging threads, it is so very pretty and works so wonderfully on this design too.   I then decided that a fan of butterflies was required and so on they went with some lovely pearlescent embossing paste and then the layering ...

The green ribbon with its cute green leaves is what inspired this entire design.  I just thought it was cute and so I let that take me wherever.  It started with playing around with the background where I allowed the inks to flow in both directions after some modelling paste through a stencil.  I then saw these old incense sticks I have kept (because crafting makes you save everything, just in case!)  So I managed to use a few of those up and then I rummaged through my wooden Kaisercraft embellishment stash and found a few things and then we started with the paper.  Built it up, wove the ribbon around and stuck it down in a few places to ensure it stays but does not interfere with the photo area.   I then went out and walked around the yard as I needed some white feathers and I just know that one of my chickens or the visiting cockatoos would have left me some somewhere.  Found, glued and a few other bits and pieces.  A little birdy in th...