Tiger: What’s in a Name?
This layout is about where Tiger’s name came from. See I’m working on my journaling. This entire page was inspired by that dandelion image, which I actually “lifted” from a bottle of wine.
Gorgeous! It actually reminded me, that when we first for Tiger, he was called Oduvanchick. That name was quite a mouthful though! Which got me to thinking, I should make a page about his name!
To copy the design, I imported the picture into Illustrator, and used it as a guide to draw many long Y shaped lines coming from a center point.
I then saved it as a .png and imported it into Studio to print and cut it in a circle. I also print and cut the journaling on the same page, as well as the What’s in a NAME? title that I transferred over with clear tape (a technique that I will talk about in a later post, keep an eye out).
The background was inspired by this post:
http://blog.silhouetteamerica.com/2015/03/make-your-own-patterned-paper-tutorial
I used the same technique with the Tall N Bubbly font, and played around with the internal/external offset to get the look I wanted. After the Silhouette sketched it out, I colored in the letters with peach and orange watercolors. I’ve been loving the watercolor trend, it’s so much fun! I chose a wide photo and bunched all my layering on the bottom to let as much of the background shine through.
I cut the orance paw print from a bag of Iams cat food! And the pink and brown paw print was the backing to a sticker sheet. I love being crafty/thrifty, and finding unique patterns and papers in unexpected places.
I then embellished using staples and gold foil, which I cut in a zigzag, and used the triangles that came out of the zigzag to create visual triangles on my page.
Lastly, I added a title which I cut from my Silhouette, and some stitching. You’ll notice in that picture on the right side, there is no string! Just holes! I messed up with my sewing machine and the thread had to come out. There are two options when that happens: you can re-sew by hand using the holes the machine left or you can leave it be… the holes can work for the project and look nice anyways and you can pretend you did that on purpose.
Fonts Used:
–Tall N Bubbly
xoxo
-A
