A "Congrats!" Layout by Gerry van Gent

Hello Sizzix peeps!

Happy Sunday to all of you ....
Hope you all had a great Valentine's Day with your loved ones!

Today I prepared another layout for you using New Sizzix dies and a 

"touch" of old ones ....a perfect combination :-)
This photo of my son was taken last Summer on his 11th birthday -
a day certainly worth remembering :-) and treasuring on the wall.

657900 Sizzix Big Shot Machine

NEW 660210 Sizzix Thinlits Die Set Alphanumeric (1" Tall) 

NEW 660222 Sizzix Thinlits Die Set Scribbles & Splat

NEW 660220 Sizzix Thinlits Die Set Mixed Media

657826 Sizzix Sizzlits Dec. Strip Die Washer Border

656938 Sizzix Movers & Shapers L Die Tag & Bookplates

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To give more dimension and "glam" to the letters from my title I 

added "Dimensional Magic".  To be sure the letters won't  wrinkle and

to make them flat I die cut each letter three times.

 Then I adhered each letter on top of each other - it makes them now stable.

Subsequently I added the three dimensional accent.

N.B. I used the exclamation mark as a "body" for the dragonfly. 

 It took 3 hours for the letters to dry!

But once dry the result is simply amazing. 

As a final touch I distressed the letters with ink. 

 The Bookplate was die cut from corrugated cardboard and dark brown pattern paper.

When I adhered the pattern paper on top of the corrugated cardboard I distressed the

pattern paper with sanding paper. As a result you get "white" spots - 

these white spots I painted with blue paint.

I did almost the same with the die cut pattern paper matting the photo.

First I die cut the paper by using one of the NEW Mixed Media dies.

Then I painted the edges with gesso and once drie I painted with blue paint.

I used this flower shape to decorate my embellishments.

I hope you enjoyed my project today!

Have a creative Sunday!

Gerry