Nom Nom Nom Layout

Anyone who knew Tiger can tell you that food was very important to him. He was a BIG cat, so I basically had to do a page about food. I didn’t have any photos of him eating, but Qi inherited his bowl- the YOU MAY FEED ME NOW. It was so perfectly Tiger.

This is my second NSD layout, and I already had all the elements that I wanted to use on the page.

 I was really inspired by the white circles with paws that come on a bag of IAMS food. For the background, I used the same wavy background as I did for my Silly Kitty layout, but turned so that the pattern papers are on the top. I made 4 backgrounds with that cut file with 4 pattern papers in a different order each time. You can find the cut file for the wavy background in the freebies page.I then splattered it with orange shimmer mist and brown watercolor. I cut a bunch of circles out of the IAMS bags that I had hoarded for this very layout, and glued them randomly. I put brown thread in my sewing machine and went wild with circles. I’ve never done circles with a sewing machine before and I was a little nervous, but this was a great way to get over that. It was super easy and so much fun.

For the photo itself, I wanted to do something different, because it wasn’t a photo of Tiger. I printed it on white cardstock and cut it in a circle with my Silhouette. I then used Versamark and clear embossing powder to make it shiny, but with a texture. I made the frame by cutting two donuts, and then cutting up the bigger donut into chunks, which I glued randomly to the top to create a sort of 3D gear shape. I have made a cut file for that, which is available below.

I also kept the packaging from some of his favorite snacks- yogurt and cheese. Yeah he was a bit weird, but he went bananas for those (though at least he didn’t eat bananas?). We are lucky he wasn’t lactose intolerant! For the journaling, I made a little journaling card using this as my base and editing it to add a title and change the color in picmonkey. I kept the journaling in pencil for now because I wanted to confirm with his mom what the order of his favorite foods was.

For the title, I cut the words using a simple sans serif font on my computer from black cardstock and then did a couple of coats of clear embossing powder applied with my Versamarker. I love the shiny enamel-like look that it creates.

For the finishing touches, I added blue washi tape and silver food bowl/fish puffy stickers from the dollar store.

Do you have any non-traditional printing techniques that you use when you want your photos to look different?

xoxo
-A