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Afternoon All

Its a beautiful day here is sunny Queensland , nearly the end of winter and its 24 degrees.
I finished this layout this morning. it's a challenge for the Kraft + Community blog 

http://kraftpluschallenges.blogspot.com

The challenge is be inspire by Terracotta.

The hardest part was deciding what photo to use,  I decided in the end to use one of my grandson taken many years ago outside the flats they lived in against the  brick wall
I used crackle textured paste and distress crayons to create a brick effect. with a scratchy and brick Template. Still not quite mastered the adding of texture paste to the stencil, still a bit messy.

MY INTERPRETATION OF THE TERRACOTTA COLOUR:

PRODUCTS USED:

Kaisercraft Kraft and blue card stock

Modern Industrial Paper- Brick

All Occasions Paper Pad- In the light and dark Terracotta colour and floral

Ranger Distress Ink :- 

Distress crayons :- Rusty Hinge and fossilized Amber

Kaisercraft Scratchy and  Brick template

Ranger Crackle Paste.

Salvage from "Factory 42" collection : Metal Bars and Sticker sheet

Kaisercraft Dye cuts  Arrows 

Uniquely Creative Orbital Dye

Kaisercraft Embossing folder Dots

3" x 4.25" photo 

CUTTING: 

Cut 2 X 3.5" X 2"  from the floral paper

Cut 7.5" x 5.5" from the Brick paper

Cut 5.75" x 4 " from the Brick Pattern

Dye Cut 2 arrows from the Reverse of the floral paper

Dye cut small orbital Dye from the reverse of the floral paper

Cut 2 x 1.5" x 0.25" from blue card stock

Cut 2 x 2.25" x 0.25" from blue card stock

Cut  2".25" x 1.75" from blue card stock

Cut 1.50" x 3" from reverse of floral then cut fish tail

Cut 2" x 3" from  reverse of brick paper then cut a fish tail

Cut 1" x 1" and create corner piece from the brick paper

Cut two piece from the brick paper  1"x 1" and 1" x 1.50"

Cut the word from the salvage of Metal Bars to fit the  4 cut piece of blue card stock 

BACKGROUND STENCILLING:

Add Rusty Hinge and fossilized Amber to the crackled paste, place stencil 1" from left hand side 1.5" from the top of Kraft card stock and randomly run textured past through  stencil, Using the same process used the Fired Red ranger distress ink and randomly add to page

Using the scratchy template, randomly add texture past across the piece of Kraft card stock

Using Fired Red ink add some to the stencil bricks 

Add the Texture Paste  to 5.75" x 4 " from the Brick Pattern

Once dried colour with brown Kaiser pen randomly

Emboss the two piece of which have been fished tailed with the Dot embossing folder.

ASSEMBLY:

Add photo to photo mat  5.75" x 4 " of Brick Pattern using foam dots

Add 7.5" x 5.5" of  Brick paper  to the Kraft card stock 4" from the top and 2.50" from the left using foam dots

Add the floral pieces so that they form a triangle 3.5" x 2" at the top  and 4" from left hand side  and 1" x 1.5" at the bottom and 4.5" from left hand side tuck under the Brick pattern sheet

Add photo mat at an angle with top left point 3.25" from left hand side using foam dots

Tucked the two fish tail pieces , overlapping each other at an angle 5.5" from the top 

Add words, collectables and small dye cuts as per photo layout