In The Clouds

I'm back with another Costa Rica layout! One of the really cool things we did was hike a couple of canopy trails. These trails are like normal hiking trails, until you get to a gully, then you walk on a long suspension bridge that goes right out over the tops of the trees. It's a really unique look, but more on that in a future layout. These forests are high up in the mountains. Cost Rica is pretty narrow, only 76 miles at the most narrow point, and is divided by a mountain range that tops out at 12,500 feet. Monteverde, where we went hiking is about 5000 feet. It is a cloud magnet, trapping the cloud cover that blows in from either the Carri bean or the Pacific, depending on which way the wind is blowing, enveloping the forest in a blanket of warm moisture.

For my layout I started by cutting a matte from A Walk In The Clouds. I left this white and placed on blue scripty paper. Next I cut the clouds from Happy Clouds in both vellum and white card stock. I used distress ink to color the card stock clouds in dreamy blues. For my title I used the last 3 words in Child @ Heart.

 

 

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You're A Child @ Heart

Happy October everyone!  Katrina from Paper, Scissors and Glue here today to share a layout about clouds!  I used two files from the shop.  The "Child @ Heart" and the "A Walk in the Clouds" files for my layout I made today.

Let's take a closer look, shall we?!  I back some of the clouds, not all with pattern papers.  I used a 6x6 mini pad that was part of the collection I used.  The patterns are smaller, so they make for great backing papers. 

After die cutting the title, I adhered it to a piece of pattern paper that I had done as an offset of my title and decided I couldn't see it well enough.  So I carefully took a firm sponge and added gelatos to the areas.  Hindsight, it would have been better to have done this before adhere the title, but it worked1  I just used the sponge to smooth out the color some.  I then added another offset, based not the first offset in the black pattern paper to make the title stand out more.

A little clustering, a little journaling and I had a layout that was done! 

Thanks for stopping by The Cut Shoppe blog today.  Have a great Friday!