So, I'm back from a lovely relaxing holiday and itching to get back to creating! I printed some photos from a fab Level 42 concert we went to just before we went away - they're my favourite band and this was an absolutely brilliant evening. I had some ideas in my head of the kind of thing I wanted to achieve, but it really wasn't working for me.
I couldn't find the right shade of blue cardstock, but found one I thought would be ok and, when I masked and sprayed it with Tinsel Heidi Swapp Color Shine, it didn't look as I'd hoped either - the mist was far too subtle. I decided, however, that I could work with it, so stuck down my photos and a couple of strips of patterned paper from the Becky Higgins Project Life Honey Edition - and that was it. No further ideas for where to go next. I hopped over to Shimelle's blog in the hope that she'd posted a challenge while I'd been away, but she had been away too - no new inspiration there, so I left it for a while.
A couple of days later, I went back to my layout, and looked at it, and fiddled a bit, and worked on something else, then looked at it again, and decided that I'd left my creativity on the beach...
Another night's sleep and I had a few more ideas for making the layout work. I'd masked the cardstock background with rings and stars, cut with Spellbinder dies, so I decided to cut a few more, but this time in red and yellow cardstock to help lift the layout. As soon as I started scattering these across the layout, I was much happier with it. The journalling went on a couple of inner circles which nested nicely in one of the bigger rings, and the set list is on a tag which slips behind one of the photos.
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