Amanda Lawrence - Pretty Girl - Step by Step

I love seeing others creative process. I find it so interesting to see how other peoples pages come together and how they go about creating them. With this in mind I thought I would take a few progress shots and make a mini tutorial for how I created my latest Memory Maze project. 

Pretty Girl

Firstly I'll show you the finished layout and then break it down step by step below. 

I started by giving my chipboard pieces a coat of paint using a Distress Paint dabber in pewter. Using a metallic is always a great option when you are not sure which of the colours from your scheme will work best. 

I painted up both the frame and the word 'pretty' which I will use as part of my title later.

I wanted to make the most of my background paper with it's doily elements so I cut some circles of paper from a contrast colour to fit in the centres. To make them pop from the background I lightly distressed the edges and then sewed a circle of handstitching about 1/4" in from the edge.

I wanted to use this vine as the basis for my floral cluster, so I simply bent it to fit the same curve as the chipboard frame.

I pulled more flowers from my stash in my chosen colour palette and worked my way around the vine, filling in the blank spaces. I have used quite bulky flowers but you could achieve the same look with flatter ones. The end of the vine looked a little odd so I covered it with a big floppy bow tied from some hand dyed seam binding.  

I added my title to one of the other doily sections of the background and balanced the layout by adding a smaller cluster of flowers here. To even out the tone I dry brushed some gesso over all the flowers and leaves on the page. 

As a finishing touch I coloured some chipboard butterflies with my silver metallic sharpie pen and scattered them throughout the flowers. 

It was really a fun layout to put together and quite simple when you break down the steps. 

Memory Maze products:

Frame - VOW11

Sunshine Word Sheet (pretty word) - S0787

Micro Butterflies

Other products used:

Bazzil cardstock, Crate Paper Maggie Holmes papers, Manor House Creations vine, Kaisercraft & D-lish Scraps flowers, thread, gesso, AC Thickers, seam binding.

Thanks for stopping by and I really hoped you enjoyed seeing my creative process.

Amanda x